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2. Agenda What’s a wiki? Comparison with a website Wiki Formatting ‘My’ Page Fun with wiki 2EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

3. The Big Question: What’s a Wiki? 3EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Wiki Example: WikiNews 7EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

8. WikiNews: Article 8EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

9. WikiNews: Sources 9EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

10. WikiNews: Edits 10EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

11. WikiNews: Comparing Edits 11EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

12. WikiNews: Discussion 12EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

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14. 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.

15. An exhaustive list… 15EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

16. 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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19. Examples Alumni List http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Mentors 19EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

20. Contd.. Projects List http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/BTP_projec t_proposals 20EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

21. Contd.. Any tool installation & usage documents http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Installation _and_Configuration_of_Services 21EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

22. Contd.. Website http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Main_Pag e 22EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

23. Lets get started… 23EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

24. Creating Wikis: The WYSIWYG Editor Insert Internal Link Insert External Link Insert Level 2 Heading Ignore Wiki Formatting 24EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

25. Formatting Tips 25EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

26. Contd.. 26EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

27. Creating Wikis: Adding New Pages Internal link – Double bracket [[link]] External link – Single bracket [link] 27EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

28. 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.

29. Lets see how to do stuff… 29EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. Installation Requirements Apache2 MySQL server / Postgre SQL server PHP MediaWiki 32EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

33. Installation of Mediawiki 1. Download mediawiki from the following link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download 2. 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.

34. Wiki Administration Site Name Database Configuration Image Upload File Extensions Default Skin Logo Subpages 34EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

35. References http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page 35EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad.

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