Thewicked Ways of Wikis

TWITI Workshop, May 18-22, 2009

Session 4B – Thursday May 21th

Jim Morey:

TheWicked Ways of Wikis

this page(http://moria.wesleyancollege.edu/wiki/index.php/TWITI)

· History -- the bad old days

o Web pages and Web sites (ubc).

o Html and logging on to servers (the CS world CS311)

· Wikipedia and authorship (who wrote Wesleyan's piece?)

o Encyclopedias

· Community Wiki

o shared local knowledge base

o up to date reference

o paperless and keeps a record of all the changes

o easy to maintain

§ RSS feeds / email

basic use

· quick and dirty ("Wiki" is a Hawaiian word for "fast" [1])

· An excellent video on wikis ("in plain english" commoncraft)

· basic editing

o creating pages: go to foopage and then hit create new page

o edit / type / save

formating

· simple text with some extras

o bullets, numbers, indenting, headings

o tables

· images

o login

o upload and include

controling and monitoring

· watching

· protecting

· special pages

advanced formating

· Categories

o Category:Testpage

o Category:Wikitech

· Templates

o Template:NoIdea

· steal

configuring

· preferences

· MediaWiki:Sidebar