Introduction to MediaWiki EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad
Agenda Content Management System(CMS)? What is a wiki? What is MediaWiki? Why MediaWiki What we can do with MediaWiki? Uses and advantages of MediaWiki 2
Content Management System(CMS)? Set of processes and technologies – Collecting data – Managing data – Publishing content Text, images, graphics, video, audio, documents Multiple users can work simultaneously 3
What is a wiki? A wiki is a website Easy creation and editing of pages Any number of interlinked web pages simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get. Example: 4
What is a MediaWiki? Software which helps to build wiki pages A wiki can be used for the following: Stand-alone application Can be hosted LAN Internet 5
Why MediaWiki? Capturing the data and ideas Collaboration of different users Can be viewed and edited by a group of people Centralized maintenance of different types of data (text, images, documents,video, audio etc) 6
What we can do with MediaWiki? Create course websites Documentation(software, ideas etc) Community websites 7
Uses and advantages Free and Open source software Easy to use Easy to edit Easy to navigate Instant publishing Accessibility permissions Versioning and Revert Options Availability of 'Extensions' 8
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