MediaWiki/Introduction to MediaWiki

Date of preparation of script: 28th October, 2010

Authors: P.N.Swetha, T.Rakesh Reddy

Keywords: Mediawiki, CMS, Collaboration

Resources for recording

Introduction to Mediawiki

Script

Visual Cue	Narration
Show slide 1 Spoken tutorial on Introduction to Mediawiki Script by Rakesh & Swetha on 28th October 2010 Created by Lavanya Talk to a Teacher National Mission on Education through ICT	On behalf of IIIT-Hyderabad, this is Lavanya welcoming you to the spoken tutorial on Introduction to Mediawiki.
Show slide 2 titled About MediaWiki	The version of the MediaWiki is 1.15.3
Show slide 3 titled About MediaWiki	User needs to have basic knowledge of computers like accessing internet and typing.
Show slide 4 titled Agenda	In this tutorial, we will look into What is a Content Management System(CMS)?
Show slide 5 titled Agenda	What is Mediawiki?
Show slide 6 titled Agenda	Why Mediawiki?
Show slide 7 titled Agenda	What we can do with Mediawiki?
Show slide 8 titled Agenda	Uses and advantages of MediaWiki Now we will look into each of these aspects in detail.
Show slide 9 titled Content Management system(CMS)	Content Management system(CMS) Tool that enables multiple users to Create Edit Manage Publish the content
Show slide 10 titled titled Content Management system(CMS) Example: MediaWiki	Content management system or CMS is a set of processes and technologies that support the collection, management and publishing of content in different forms like text, images, graphics, video, audio and documents.
how slide 11 titled titled Content Management system(CMS)	CMS is a tool that enables multiple users to create, edit, manage and publish the content.
Show slide 12 titled titled Content Management system(CMS)	MediaWiki is an example of CMS. let us have a look at a sample page created by MediaWiki.
Show a screenshot of an empty Mediawiki content page at this point	A wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.
Continue with the Mediawiki screenshot Roll cursor over web address Click on create
Type out or alternately paste the text in the content space WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get.	Let us type some text in the space given here. I am typing the text Welcome to MediaWiki. When I save the page it shows the same text in resultant wiki page. This functionality is called as What You See Is What You Get. Now let us look in to more details about MediaWiki.
Show slide 13 titled What is a MediaWiki? Software to build wiki pages Single user Multiple users LAN Internet	MediaWiki is a software which helps building wiki pages.
Show slide 14 titled	MediaWiki can be used by a single user as a stand-alone application
Show slide 15 titled	or by a group of people when it is hosted on LAN or Internet.
Show slide 16 titled Why Mediawiki? Capture data & ideas	Wiki can be used to capture the data and ideas.
Show slide 17 titled Why Mediawiki? Share one's ideas	A wiki page can be created by the user to share one’s ideas.
Show slide 18 titled Why Mediawiki? Work collaboratively on idea / project	It can be used for working collaboratively on an idea/project.
Show slide 19 titled Why Mediawiki? View, Edit existing data	Users can view or edit already existing data on wiki and can contribute by adding their points.
Show slide 20 titled Why Mediawiki? Different users Work simultaneously from different locations	The users of wiki can work simultaneously from different locations.
Show slide 21 titled Why Mediawiki? Users can add Text Images Documents Docs pdfs ppts excel sheets Audio / Video	Users can add text, images, documents, audio/video files in a wiki page. The documents can be pdfs, ppts, excel sheets etc.
Show slide 22 titled What we can do with Mediawiki? can be used as Centralized training system Educational institutions Corporate companies	The study material for a course can be made available in a wiki. The users can also contribute in adding resources. Wikis can be used for training both in educational institutions and corporate companies.
Show slide 22 titled What we can do with Mediawiki? can be used as Students can store noted and summaries	In wiki, students can store notes and summaries of any lecture or presentation attended by them.
Show slide 23 titled What we can do with Mediawiki? Ideas from brain storming sessions Minutes of meetings	Ideas from discussions or brainstorming sessions and minutes of meetings can be documented and can be made available for the users.
Show slide 24 titled What we can do with Mediawiki? Software processes, documents	Software processes, documentation and user manuals can be created by multiple users at the same time.
Show slide 25 titled What we can do with Mediawiki? Repository of files	It can be used as a repository of files.
Show slide 26 titled What we can do with Mediawiki? Public websites	Wikis can be used as public websites for all users to view and contribute information.
Show slide 27 and then show a screenshot of the url given from this point	wikibooks is an example of such website. | http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Click on the link http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page and show the page.	As we can see on this page, there are collection of books related to various fields like computers, engineering, science and many more are hosted here. There are many links inside which can help user to traverse through different books. This is a sample page created by MediaWiki. Now let us look at the uses and advantages of mediaWiki.
Show slide 28 titled Uses and advantages It can be Downloaded for free from the internet Customized as per requirements	MediaWiki is free and open source software. So Users can download it for free from the internet and they can customize it as per their requirements.
Show slide 29 titled Uses and advantages Simple design	Simple design of the tool allows users to access MediaWiki easily.
Show slide 30 titled Uses and advantages Power of web publishing to non-technical users	To edit contents in MediaWiki, users need not know HTML or other scripting languages. This extends the power of web publishing to non-technical users.
Show slide 31 titled Uses and advantages Easy navigation	Navigation to different features and pages in MediaWiki is simple.
Show slide 32 titled Uses and advantages Instant publishing	Wikis are instantaneous so there is no need to wait for a publisher to create a new edition or update information.
Show slide 33 titled Uses and advantages Accessibility permissions	MediaWiki also provides accessibility permissions feature to help users secure their wiki pages / content. Using this feature administrator can make wiki accessible only for a certain group of people. Different accessibility permissions can be given for viewing or editing data in wiki.
Show slide 34 titled Uses and advantages Inbuilt version control system	MediaWiki has inbuilt version control system and users can access all the previous versions using the “history” feature. Users can always revert back to any of the previous versions, if required.
Show slide 35 titled Uses and advantages Availability of many extensions	Availability of many extensions in the MediaWiki community will help users to enhance features in MediaWiki according to their requirements. In this way MediaWiki software is useful to create and host different types of information. Non-Technical users can also use MediaWiki due to its simple design and easy understandability. MediaWiki is Free and Open Source, so users can modify the customize as per their requirements. On this note we conclude this presentation on Introduction to MediaWiki.
Show slide 36	The references used are from wikipedia and wiki educator.
Show slide 37 Spoken Tutorial Project http://spoken-tutorial.org Talk to a Teacher project National Mission on Education through ICT http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro	The Mediawiki tutorials are created as part of the SPOKEN TUTORIAL PROJECT, an initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ project, developed at IIT Bombay. The project is coordinated by http://spoken-tutorial.org. Funding for this work has come from the National Mission on Education through ICT, launched by MHRD, Government of India. For more details pls watch http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro This brings us to the end of the tutorial on Introduction to Mediawiki. The script for this tutorial was written by Rakesh and Swetha and this is Lavanya from IIIT-Hyderabad. Thank You.

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1.S	The written part of the script when read aloud does not exceed 7 minutes
2.S	Simple words are used and jargon is avoided	1
3.S	Check for grammar and spelling mistakes	1
4.S	The whole tutorial is easy to understand	1
5.S	The learning objectives are clearly mentioned at the beginning of the script	1
6.S	The prerequisites are clearly mentioned at the beginning of the script	1
7.S	The system requirements are clearly mentioned at the beginning of the script
8.S	Verified that all the links given are active	1
9.S	Successfully tried out all the steps in one sitting
10.S	Able to successfully achieve the same output results as mentioned in the script

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11.S	Check for grammar and spelling mistakes
12.S	Check the narration time
13.S	Easy to understand and follow all the steps
14.S	Successfully tried out all the steps in one sitting
15.S	Able to start the trial run of the software from scratch and able to follow all the instructions in the given sequence

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