Watching All Files in Mediawiki

As per the discussion here, the change discussed at the Mediawiki site should be able to provide the functionality of notification on each file change. I verified that this change works.

Mediawiki Templates

The equivalent of latex newcommand is templates in mediawiki. To use a new template:

Create a new page named "Template:Concept" for example. On the page, write:

'''{{{1}}}'''

Then on any other page, wherever {{concept|foo}} occurs, it will be replaced by foo in bold.

Mediawiki SMTP Setup On Windows

Mediawiki is surely not fun to work with. There are thousands of configurations needed to set up the basic/essential functionalities like SMTP. To use secure SMTP with gmail SMTP server, I had to install PEAR as per http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/getting-started-with-pear/2 and then run "pear install --alldeps Mail-1.1.14". After this I restarted my web server (apache in my case). So much for SMTP.