Wiki Workshop

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Revision as of 11:18, 7 April 2008

What is a Wiki?

From WikiPedia:

A wiki is software that allows users to collaboratively create, edit, link, and organize the content of a website, usually for reference material. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.

There are many different Wiki software packages. In this workshop, we will deal specifically with MediaWiki, the Wiki software developed for WikiPedia and used for many other Wikis, including this ML2SIG Wiki.

Wiki Examples

• Wikipedia
• ML2SIG
• Muppet Wiki (and many others on Wikia)

• List of Wikis from WikiPedia

Creating accounts

Creating and using a user account is sometimes necessary and always desirable in order to edit wikis.

For the ML2SIG Wiki (and other Wikis served by ITCS), a user account is created for you when you authenticate. Click the link in the upper right of the page and authenticate.

For other Wikis such as WikiPedia, Click the link in the upper right of the page, then follow the link on the login screen.

Once you've logged in, you'll see the personal navigation bar in the upper right:

• Username: This is your User page, where you can put personal information about yourself.

• my talk: This is your Talk page, to be used for carrying on conversations with other users on the Wiki. If someone posts to your talk page, you'll receive a notification then next time you login to the wiki.

• my preferences: here you can set many preferences, such as personal info, date & time formats, skins, editing preferences, etc.

• my watchlist: changes to pages you've marked as 'watch' (see below)

• my contributions: lists edits you've made to the wiki

• log out: logs you out

Navigating Wikis

Editing Wikis

• headings
• formatting
• lists
• links
• internal
• external
• using HTML

Special pages

Wiki Etiquette, etc.