Printed Books and Online Help

Using a Wiki
Vivek
macrovivek@gmail.com
Traditional Approach
Wiki way
Wiki
 What are wikis?
 Free, online writing websites/spaces.
 That use simple formatting rules, so you do not
need to know HTML or FrontPage, etc.
 They are published online.
 Developed by Cunningham in the mid-1990s
to provide collaborative discussions.
 Characteristics
 DMS
 Multiple contributors
 Not only may an individual contributor edit
their own work, but also edit the work of
others.
 Wiki pages are never being finished
 When to wiki
 Collaborative pages
 Internal staff Web site
 Committees
 Easy
 Free
 Light-Weighted
 Where to wiki
www.mediawiki.org

MediaWiki - host your own

 Where to wiki
http://twiki.org

Twiki – host your own

 Where to wiki
Commercial Enterprise Wiki Engine

 PBWiki – get hosted

 Confluence– get hosted
WikiMatrix
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
WikiMatrix
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
 Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/
Wikipedia
 What is Wikipedia?
 Wikipedia is a free, web-based, and
collaborative encyclopedia
 Wikimedia Foundation
 Powered by MediaWiki
 16 million articles (over 3.4 million in English)
 Written collaboratively by volunteers around
the world
 Wikipedia Features
 Thousands of changes an hour
 Histories and recent changes
 Compare changes
 Sandbox
 Inappropriate changes are usually removed
quickly
 User Profile
 Wiki moto

Don't be afraid to edit—anyone can edit

almost any page, and wiki encourage you to
be bold.
Editing Wikipedia
Editing Wikipedia
Cheatsheet
 Making the news new
Since its creation the
Top 5 most active article has been edited
discussion topics over
4,252 times.

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36 languages
 Wiki Media resources
 Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
 Wikiquote - http://en.wikiquote.org (Over 95,000 pages of user-
submitted quotes in 88 languages)
 Wiktionary - http://en.wiktionary.org (Over six million articles with
word definitions from 170 languages)
 Wikiversity - http://en.wikiversity.org (open educational Resource
Over 26,000 articles in 11 languages)
 Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org (100,000 articles covering
breaking news and in-depth reporting around the world in 28 languages)
 MediaWiki
http://www.mediawiki.org
 MediaWiki
 Server-based software
 GPL
 Wikitext format
 WYSIWYG
 Written in PHP
 Power up's Wikipedia
 Web feeds - RSS
 MediaWiki
Requirements
 Download MediaWiki (current stable version is 1.16.0)
 Web server such as Apache or IIS
 PHP version 5.1 or later
 Database Server such as MySQL or PostgreSQL

Take easy

XAMPP
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
 MediaWiki
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#
 MediaWiki
Security
 Spam prevention
• URL blacklist
• Word blacklist
• IP blocking
• Captchas
 Internet bots
 MediaWiki
Commons.wikimedia.org

 5.5 million free images, videos, and sound files

 MediaWiki
 How do I create a new page?
 How do I add/remove a table of contents?
 How do I spell check my work?
 How do I revert a page to an earlier version?
 How do I insert Online Videos into the wiki?
Emerson Wiki’s
 Emerson Wiki’s
 http://wiki.artesyncp.com/tiki-index.php
 Emerson Wiki’s
 http://internal.artesyncp.com/pcfiles/groups/eng_services/techwrit/misc/TiddlyWiki/
tech_write.html