Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-15 Thread Richard
In article , Daniel Barrett writes: > Hi, I wrote the O'Reilly book. THanks for that book, Daniel! It really helped me quite a bit in setting up my terminals wiki. It was

Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-15 Thread Luis Miguel Morillas
Hi, Bill, Here [1] you can get the links to the streaming [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2017 Saludos, -- luismiguel (@lmorillas) 2017-03-15 20:35 GMT+01:00 Bill Traynor : > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: >>

Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-15 Thread Bill Traynor
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > Richard wrote: >>Obviously [Yaron's] book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly >>one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one >>otherwise if someone has read them both. > > Hi, I wrote the

Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-15 Thread Daniel Barrett
Richard wrote: >Obviously [Yaron's] book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly >one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one >otherwise if someone has read them both. Hi, I wrote the O'Reilly book. Yaron's book is surely more current with Mediawiki syntax and

Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-14 Thread Bill Traynor
I've owned and read them both. The o'reilly book was great when it came out. I still occasionally use the fold out markup cheat sheet that came with it. But Yaron's first book came at a time when MediaWiki had really moved forward, and it would appear that this new revision is doing the same.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-14 Thread Richard
I bought the older O'Reilly book a few years ago (ten? sheesh, I'm getting old) when I setup my terminals wiki. Obviously this book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one otherwise if someone has read them both. Thanks. --

Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-14 Thread Pine W
This book sounds like it may end up on my summer reading least, or at least as reference material on my bookshelf. (There are times when I prefer physical books to digital ones.) Thanks! Pine On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Bill Traynor wrote: > Having purchased and read

Re: [MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-14 Thread Bill Traynor
Having purchased and read the first edition, I highly recommend this book. It's nice to see it updated and now free. Thanks Yaron! I'll definitely be purchasing, as I know how difficult writing is. On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Yaron Koren wrote: > Hi everyone, > >

[MediaWiki-l] "Working with MediaWiki" 2nd edition now available (including for free)

2017-03-14 Thread Yaron Koren
Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that the 2nd edition of my MediaWiki reference book, "Working with MediaWiki", has been released. This is the only MediaWiki reference book published since 2010, as far as I know, so it's the de facto authoritative reference for MediaWiki - other than the