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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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: http://en.wikipedia.org/http://en.wikipedia.org/ 4

5. 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

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) 6

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

8. 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

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 9