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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 contents of > mediawiki.org. > > "Working with MediaWiki" was first released in 2012, and an updated version > was released in 2014, but this is the official 2nd edition. > > Changes in this 2nd edition include: > - A new foreword by Daniel Robbins, founder of Gentoo Linux and Funtoo Linux > - Much of the content on Semantic MediaWiki was replaced by content on the > Cargo extension, which I think is now the better solution for data storage > - Lots of other updated content to handle the various changes to the > software in the last three years. > > The biggest change, though, is that the book is now available for free > online. Given MediaWiki's presence in both the open source and "open > knowledge" worlds, I'm excited to have this book be similarly freely > available. > > It's also still available (at cost), though, in printed and e-book forms. > If this were six months from now, I would say that the book makes a great > holiday gift, but instead I'll say that it makes for great beach reading. > > You can read more about "Working with MediaWiki" here: > > http://workingwithmediawiki.com > > And the entire book can now be viewed here: > > http://workingwithmediawiki.com/book > > -Yaron > > -- > WikiWorks · MediaWiki Consulting · http://wikiworks.com > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
