Intro to Wiki (Activity)

Wiki Activity

Preparation:

Description	Learners will create learn wiki basics and edit a wiki page.
Source	Greg Hislop
Prerequisite Knowledge	None.
Estimated Time to Completion	30 minutes minutes
Learning Objectives	Upon completion, you will be able to: Describe typical uses of wikis. Create and edit a wiki page. Discuss use of wikis in FOSS projects
Materials/Environment	Access to the Web via a web browser.
Rights	Licensed CC BY-SA
Turn In	A wiki page with a short biography and link to your blog

Background:

According to Wikipedia: "A wiki is a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor. Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively." [1]

For our learning activity we will focus on Media Wiki, the wiki software that powers Wikipedia.

Directions:

Part 1 - Introduction to Wikis

1. Read the overview article about wikis. (After all, what starting point can there be for wikis other than the Wikipedia article?)
2. Read basics of MediaWiki page creation and page editing

Part 2 - Creating a wiki page

As part of your introduction to other POSSE participant, please create a short bio page for yourself in foss2serve.org. Do the following:

1. Go to the Foss2serve wiki.
2. Login or create an account. Note that when you create an account you will need to wait for approval by an administrator.
3. Create a new "user" page in the wiki for your user ID. You can see an example here and begin to create your page by modifying the URL of this example, changing the user ID to your own user ID.
4. Edit the participants page for this POSSE and add your own name and a link to your blog. Please keep the names in alphabetic order by last name. The participants page is here