Part 0.0 -MediaWiki for Content Editors - Introduction
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Introduction to MediaWiki
What is covered in this course?。
Basic Editing
- Creating new page
- Editing a page
- Discussions and comments
- Revisions, tracking history and reverting changes
- Uploading images, audio files and movies
- Templates (do not repeat yourself)
- MediaWiki syntax
Font formatting
- Tables
- Resizing and positioning pictures
- Organizing Content
Links
- Categorizing Pages
- Understanding Namespaces
- Moving (renaming) a page
- Redirects
- Deleting a page
- The way it looks
Adjusting skins
- Custom CSS
- Custom Javascript
- Finding your way
Special pages
- User pages
- Namespaces
Blended vs Self-study
- live person time (Skype, email reply or even face-to-face instructor)
- material is updated before you buy, we check all the examples with newest version of the software and standards
- access to the training environment via remote desktop (virtual machines) for 30 days
WMF vs MW。
- Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) vs MediaWiki Open-Source Software
What is MediaWiki。
- Open Source Software (GPLv2)
- Developed by MediaWiki Foundation + Community (e.g. NobleProg)
- Released in 2002
- Made for hight traffic, no hidden content
- LAMP
Sites Running Wiki。
- Wikipedia
- Wiktionary
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikia
- WikiLeaks
Training Machines。
- You have been given an access to the training machine where you can practice
- Access is given only for 30 days, but can be extended for an extra fee
