Finally wiki

Use, tips, purpose

This presentation

These slides…

• The concept of a wiki

• Why I am here

• Purpose of this wiki within the course

• The essentials

What is a wiki? (1/2)

“…a website that allows the visitors themselves to

easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and

change available content” (Wikipedia)

• Used in business and education

What is a wiki? (2/2)

• Online editing

• Version management

• Linking of pages

• Many extra functionalities

– Discussion forum, polls, multimedia…

Why a wiki?

• Collaborative effort

• Efficient

• Fun

• Easy

– Discuss, create and edit texts, link documents and

sites… and much more.

Essentials (1/8)

• Register

– Personal Page

– Personal Sidebar

– Personal Preferences (advanced)

• WYSIWYG-editor

• Write down relevant personal information

– BSc., projects done, interests, domains, experiences…

• Stay up-to-date (RSS, Atom, E-Mail)

Essentials (2/8)

• Search, edit, attach, move/delete,

history, site preferences

• Side bar, navigation

• Discussion forum, categories &

pictures

Essentials (3/8)

• WikiWord

• Topic parent

Essentials (4/8)

• Web notification (email or syndication)

• Use tagging for personal categorization of topic pages

– Include My Tags page in personal sidebar

Essentials (5/8)

• Make links to attached files and included links

on one page: Documents & Links

Essentials (6/8)

• Lecture notes and comments

Essentials (7/8)

• Plugins and variables

– Sandbox

• Take some time

to get acquainted!

Essentials (8/8)

• Lots of functionalities

– TWiki documentation: http://twiki.org

– Most useful: TWiki info

• Statistics & Changes

• Process description

– Information officer

YOU

Edit texts

Make summaries

Formulate process rules

Discuss

propositions

Create new pages

Set up polls

Answer questions

Share thoughts Maintain site

Evaluate

Work towards an

end product

Questions?

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