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This page will contain all the technical documentation related to this Mediawiki environment.

Will be updated soon

Technical background and installation requirements

Versions:

• MediaWiki: 1.9.3
• PHP: 5.1.6 (apache2handler)
• MySQL: 5.0.27

Requirements:

• XML / Latin-UTF-8 conversion support (php-xml?)
• PHP memory limit 8M -> 20M
• GNU diff3
• GD graphics library (php-gd)

Upcoming/Future extensions

• Graphical editor
• Distribution database
• Analytica <-> Wiki converter

Extensions and add-ons

Input-box

BreadCrombs

Additional buttons

All extra buttons require additions to Monobook.js

Table

Table -button is used to create tables. Icon available:

New Discussion

Discussion -button is used to create new discussion. Button implements discussion -template. Icon available:

Attack

Attack -button is used to create attacking argumentations. Button implements attack -template. Icon available:

Defend

Defend -button is used to create defending argumentations. Button implements defend -template. Icon available:

Comment

Comment -button is used to create comments in argumentations. Button uses comment -template. Icon available:

Variable

Variable -button creates automatically variable structures. Icon available:

Link to discussion

Link to discussion -button creates link to discussion to the related discussion page. Button uses disclink -template. Icon available:

Reference -tag

Files needed

Modifications

Supported filetypes

Changes made to LocalSettings.php

Linking

Font changed

Font is changed to Arial Unicode Ms due to problems with Internet Explorer and arrows used in argumentation. Changes made to Monobook.css -file.

Templates

Discussion

This template is implemented when user creates discussions using Add discussion -button. Template contains basic structure of a discussion/argumentation model.

Parameters

1. {{{Dispute}}} is topic of discussion
   
2. {{{Outcome}}} is outcome of discussion
   
3. {{{Argumentation}}} contains argumentation supporting/attacking/commenting the dispute

Attack

This template is implemented when user creates attacking argumentation using Attack -button. Template contains attack argumentation structure and parameters for user to add.

Parameters

1. {{{1}}} is number of statement
2. {{{2}}} is content of statement
3. {{{3}}} is name of argumentor

Defend

This template is implemented when user creates defending argumentation using Defend -button. Template contains defend argumentation structure and parameters which are set by user.

Parameters

1. {{{1}}} is number of statement
2. {{{2}}} is content of statement
3. {{{3}}} is name of argumentor

Comment

This template is implemented when user creates comment using Comment -button. Template contains comment argumentation structure and parameters which are set by user.

Parameters

1. {{{1}}} is number of statement
2. {{{2}}} is content of statement
3. {{{3}}} is name of argumentor

Disclink

This template is implemented when user creates a link to a discussion using Link to discussion -button. Template generates a link to the discussion page.

Parameters

1. {{{1}}} is topic of discussion

Prettytable

This style-template is used in tables to make them look a little better. Template is copied from Wikipedia.