7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

Caution: Be careful with periods and special characters! Since some
of them have special functions in wikis, their use in a title can lead to
problems; they should thus be avoided.
Next, you should indicate an email address as a contact to which the
MediaWiki can send a message in the event of a system error. In addition,
forgotten passwords can also be sent to that address; i.e. it is
possible that users will use the address to direct questions to you.
In the next field, you can set the wiki language and character
code. Depending on what audience you wish to address and, above
all, how international your group is, you may need to consider what
language your wiki will be in if English is not your first choice. In
the following field, your decision between Unicode or Latin 1 also
depends on your target group. Unicode is more flexible and enables
the display of many more characters, especially non-Western characters.
However, it is not supported by older browsers. Yet because
Unicode is the more future-oriented of the two codes, we recommend
using it.
Now you can decide on the license that will govern your wiki
pages. For an open wiki, it is not advisable to leave the question of
licensing open, especially so as to avoid abuse of collectively produced
wikis. You will find detailed information on ownership issues
in Section V. Here, let us just say that the GNU Free Documentation
License categorically excludes any subsequent commercial use of a
text, whereby the Creative Commons License allows you to select
Fig. 2.3
Contact
Language and
coding
License
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