Talk:MediaWiki workshop curriculum

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Definition

In formal education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university
[22:16:27] … this supports merging with MW workshop article
[22:16:36] Aran Dunkley: ok cool, so thats our "education" article
[22:16:44] … talking about all the workshops we do
[22:17:05] Milan Holzapfel: so you could have the OD curriculum
[22:17:22] Aran Dunkley: yea
[22:17:38] … "education" should talk abotu other stuff too like books and docos
[22:17:45] Milan Holzapfel: for sure
[22:18:03] Aran Dunkley: curriculum specifically about our workshops and seminars
[22:18:45] … and workshops/seminars are specifcaly about teaching procedures and procedure-oriented stuff
[22:19:33] Milan Holzapfel: yes, althgough some might be focused on setting up or making stuff such as set up platform or make water splitter
[22:20:23] Aran Dunkley: even those platforms would inherit the ability to teach the org system
[22:20:46] … and they'd learn how to add their own engineering based procedures

Summary

  • What are wikis about?
  • What is Wiki? -
  • Why use Wiki?
  • Where to access it
  • Concepts
    • Collaborative writing
    • Anyone can access it
    • Audit trail
    • history and change control (advanced)
    • workflow (introduce wiki workflow and related workshop)
  • Advantages/disadvantages

Basic concepts

  • BioWiki layout structure/Page overview
    • Article
    • Discussion/talk
    • Edit
    • History
    • Watch
  • How to access
  • Logging in/Setting up a new account
  • Wiki syntax - Cheatsheet

Intermediate concepts

  • Images
  • Wikitables
  • Allowed html
  • SpecialPages
  • Watchlists

Advanced concepts

  • Namespace
  • Categorization
  • Links - the power of association (Between)
    • External/internal links -look at the url
  • Templates (Within)
    • Transclusion
  • extending the functionality