1. Introduction to MediaWiki EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabad http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/ 1

2. Agenda What is a Content Management System(CMS)? What is a wiki? What is Mediawiki? Why Mediawiki What we can do with Mediawiki? Uses and advantages of MediaWiki

3. What is a Content Management System(CMS)? Set of processes and technologies – Collecting data – Managing data – Publishing content Text, images, graphics, video, audio, documents Different users can work simultaneously

4. What is a wiki? A wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/

5. What is a Wiki? (cont..) A wiki can be used for the following: Stand-alone application (for a single user) Can be hosted for sharing with a community over – LAN – Internet

6. 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)

7. What we can do with Mediawiki? Create course websites Documentation(software, ideas etc) Community websites

8. Uses and advantages Free and Open source software Easy to use ( simple design) Easy to edit (Need not know HTML or other scripting languages/technologies, non-technical users) Easy to navigate Instant publishing Accessibility permissions Versioning and Revert Options Availability of 'Extensions'

9. References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial /What_is_a_wiki/Advantages_and_disadvanta ges http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial /What_is_a_wiki/Advantages_and_disadvanta ges