Talk:MediaWiki workshop curriculum

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