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MediaWiki

Pavan Kishore V

EnhanceEdu

Session Objectives

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Learning Content Management What is MediaWiki? Advantages What we can do with wiki? Examples Installation requirements Formatting tips

Learning

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What is Learning? Process of acquiring, exploring, inquiring

and applying new content.

What is Teaching in information age? The process of constant learning of how

to create conditions for students’ learning & surviving in contemporary world of free flowing information.

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Five things about learning: We are all potential teachers as well as

learners. We learn a lot by watching others. We learn well by creating and expressing

for others. Understanding transforms us. We learn well when the learning

environment is flexible and adaptable to suit our needs.

What is MediaWiki?

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Software that runs Wikipedia Support for images and video, discussion

features, and full version history of each article

Mission Empower and Engage people Collect and Develop educational content Free license or in the public domain, and to

disseminate it effectively and globally.

Advantages

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Decentralized maintenance Easy to use for non-technical people User can edit the content Configurable access restrictions Consistency in design Automatic navigation Go back to the previous version of

content Extensions allows dynamic content

What we can do with MediaWiki

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Documents Course website Brainstorm ideas for a project or

assignment Plan and divide duties for a class activity Multimedia support Formula rendering Extendibility through lots of extensions

Examples

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Alumni Listhttp://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/

Mentors

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Projects Listhttp://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/

BTP_project_proposals

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Any tool installation & usage documentshttp://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/

Installation_and_Configuration_of_Services

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Websitehttp://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/wiki/index.php/

Main_Page

Formatting Tips

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Installation Requirements

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Apache2MySql server / Postgre Sql serverPHPMediaWiki

Installation of Mediawiki1. Download mediawiki from the foolowing

link http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download

2. Unzip the file and place it in htdocs folder of xampp if your using windows or www folder if you are using Linux

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Wiki AdministrationSite NameDatabase ConfigurationImage UploadFile ExtensionsDefault SkinLogoSubpages

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