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Introduction to MediaWiki

EnhanceEdu, IIIT-Hyderabadhttp://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/

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

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

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/

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

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)

What we can do with Mediawiki?

• Create course websites • Documentation(software, ideas etc) • Community websites

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'

References

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki • http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial

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