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WikiTeq

Ike Hecht
Chief Technology Officer

Patrick Marvin
Project Manager

Thank you for joining us today. We're excited to show you all a little bit about MediaWiki. If you have any questions during the demonstration please feel free to interrupt us.

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MediaWiki Basics

Create

An individual contributor wants to share new information

Create a blank page

Create a formatted page

Create a page via a form

How-to article

Update

An individual contributor wants to modify/add to previously shared information

Editing a page
- Visual Editor - The WYSIWYG editor, similar to MS Word or Google Docs
- WikiText - Unique to MediaWiki. Requires some knowledge of the syntax but is the preferred editing method for many Wikipedians.

Approve

A subject matter expert (SME) wants to monitor/approve/stamp specific content

ApprovedRevs - Allows admins to approve certain versions of a page
WatchAnalytics - Implements system for reporting on page reviewers
Semantic MediaWiki Example
- Allows for visual "Approval" button displayed on each page

Watch

An individual wants to follow specific content

WatchList - Get notified of new edits
Favorites - Keep a list of commonly used pages

Adjust

An individual wants to change their notification settings

Preferences - The general page to edit all user settings
- Notifications - The page specific to editing notifications

Rate

An individual wants to see the most liked pages

Special:TopRatings - View the pages that other users have voted on

Manager Tasks

A manager wants to get KPI out of the wiki

Special pages - All reports can be accessed here
Statistics - Stats for the entire wiki
High use pages - Pages with the most interaction
User page view tracker - A log of pages a given user has viewed
Contribution Scores - Shows the users that have the most edits
WireTap - metrics with charts
Plus many more at Special pages

A manager wants to make a standard user an admin

Adding & editing a single users rights - Change one users permissions
User groups & their rights - View the permissions for each user group
Manual for user rights - Helpful page for everything related to user rights

A manager wants to get the opinion of others

AJAX Poll - Allows admins to create polls and place them anywhere on the wiki

A manager wants to store data in the wiki

Semantic MediaWiki
- Structural Wiki Example
- Mikomos Example

Other Interesting Features[edit | edit source]

Article previews via hover
- Hover over an article to get a snippet of it's contents
Thanks
- Allows users to publicly thank other users for making edits
Talk pages
Mobile view
- With the current skin (Chameleon) MediaWiki is responsive and optimized for mobile devices.

Question & Answer[edit | edit source]

Are there any questions we can answer?

Possible topics for discussion[edit | edit source]

Uploading Media
- Pictures
- PDFs
Categories - What are they?
Templates - What are they?

Contacts

Ike Hecht

Chief Technology Officer

WikiTeq Inc.

[email protected]

Patrick Marvin

Project Manager