Part 0.0 -MediaWiki for Content Editors - Introduction

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title
MediaWiki for Content Editors
author
David Parkin (NobleProg Ltd), Lukasz Walec (NobleProg Poland), Bernard Szlachta (NobleProg Ltd, NobleProg China)

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

Wikimedia Foundation RGB logo with text.svg MediaWiki-smaller-logo.png

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