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Agenda What’s a wiki? Comparison with a website Wiki Formatting ‘My’ Page Fun with wiki 2EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
The Big Question: What’s a Wiki? 3EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Content Management Set of processes and technologies that support the collection, managing, and publishing of content in any form or medium. Text, images, graphics, video, sound, documents A CMS is a tool that enables a variety of people to create, edit, manage and finally publish content 4EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
What is MediaWiki? Software that runs Wikipedia Support for images and video, discussion features, and full version history of each article Mission Empower and Engage people Collect and Develop educational content Free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. 5EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
What Do Wikis Do? Online social collaboration Use internal and external hyperlinks to form concepts and promote ideas Easily edit or create new pages Retain previous versions 6EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Wiki Example: WikiNews 7EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
WikiNews: Article 8EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
WikiNews: Sources 9EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
WikiNews: Edits 10EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
WikiNews: Comparing Edits 11EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
WikiNews: Discussion 12EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
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Features Collaborative tool Ease of editing Simple mark up language Security Access to server Version control and roll back Comparison of edits Discussion page User accounts 14EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
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Usage of wiki … Software development E-learning Project management General Information Policies of a company R&D work Resource management 16EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
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Examples Alumni List 19EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Contd.. Projects List t_proposals 20EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Contd.. Any tool installation & usage documents _and_Configuration_of_Services 21EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Contd.. Website e 22EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Lets get started… 23EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Creating Wikis: The WYSIWYG Editor Insert Internal Link Insert External Link Insert Level 2 Heading Ignore Wiki Formatting 24EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Formatting Tips 25EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Contd.. 26EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Creating Wikis: Adding New Pages Internal link – Double bracket [[link]] External link – Single bracket [link] 27EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Formatting covered in workshop Create your own page Text formatting Tables Upload files and images Table of contents ‘My Page’ in wiki 28EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Lets see how to do stuff… 29EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Advantages Decentralized maintenance Easy to use for non-technical people User can edit the content Configurable access restrictions Consistency in design Automatic navigation Go back to the previous version of content Extensions allows dynamic content 30EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
What we can do with MediaWiki Documents Course website Brainstorm ideas for a project or assignment Plan and divide duties for a class activity Multimedia support Formula rendering Extendibility through lots of extensions 31EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Installation Requirements Apache2 MySQL server / Postgre SQL server PHP MediaWiki 32EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Installation of Mediawiki 1. Download mediawiki from the following link Unzip the file and place it in htdocs folder of xampp if your using windows or www folder if you are using Linux 33EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
Wiki Administration Site Name Database Configuration Image Upload File Extensions Default Skin Logo Subpages 34EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.
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