Help:MediaWiki basics/Training review
So you've completed the four MediaWiki training exercises? If you haven't you can find them here:
If you have, then it's time to review.
MediaWiki review
The wiki
You learned MediaWiki is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's powerful, it's scalable, and it's full of features. It uses wikitext format, a special set of codes to present information in the wiki. When content is edited in MediaWiki, previous versions of the page are retained, allowing easy reverts in case of vandalism or spamming.
From there you learned about what a wiki actually is. It allows authorized users to do what?
- add content
- modify content
- remove content
- collaborate with others
- build and manage knowledge bases
- maintain research notes
- maintain community web content
- disseminate information to a broad audience
- provide consistency to otherwise disparate information
- did we mention "collaborate"?
Creating and organizing pages
Creating a page involves choosing the right namespace, selecting an appropriate title, entering the title into the search box, selecting "Go", and choosing the option to create the page on the wiki. Of course, namespaces have particular purposes, titles have naming conventions, and page content has particular formatting and organization requirements, at least to meet the standards of LIMSwiki.
Once the page is started, you begin adding substance to it. If it's a page about say... the clinical laboratory, you'll have plenty to write about: what it is, how it operates, and how it's regulated. That's likely three separate sections right there. You'll want to divide that content, and you do it by using headings and subheadings. You should immediately notice this "Creating and organizing pages" section is subheaded to "MediaWiki review" for example.
