wiki URL shortening with MediaWiki and Apache

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

I would really like to achieve that with my recently set up wiki, but so far to no success.

Atlassian Confluence: Enterprise Collaboration and Wiki Software

• atlassian.com/software/confluence/
• atlassian.com/software/confluence/docs/
• Confluence Wiki Markup (referring to developer releases)
• Confluence Wiki Markup – "Atlassian OnDemand Documentation" – for the latest released version
• MediaWiki lets you edit sub-units of an article, Confluence doesn't.
• in preview mode MediaWiki lets you preview and edit the source below the preview pane; Confluence doesn't let you view both aspects at the same time.
• …

O'Reilly Media book: MediaWiki

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519681/

Part III, chapter 9: Installing MediaWiki.

This book is rather helpful at setting up my civil rights … wiki. Exciting!!! Sorry for repeating myself!

Update 2013-11-14: Ch. 6: Adding an Article to a Category
Introduced a category on my 1st articles on my "personal" wiki: ToBeExported. Allows me to export all of them as XML at once. So I will be able to tear down my wiki and build it up again with the old contents – e.g. in case I want to get the URL shortened again.