This document provides an overview of an advanced wiki training course covering topics like recapitulation of basics, tables, organizing content with categories and namespaces, templates, extensions, and licenses for open content. The course was held on April 21, 2010 at EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany by Dr. Konrad U. Fürstner.

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Advanced wiki training course
Dr. Konrad U. F¨rstner
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April 21st, 2010 @ EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

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Table of content
1 Recapitulation
2 Tables
3 Organizing content
4 Templates
5 Access Control Lists
6 Extensions
7 Licenses for open content

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Table of content
1 Recapitulation
2 Tables
3 Organizing content
4 Templates
5 Access Control Lists
6 Extensions
7 Licenses for open content

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Basics we covered before
External links
Internal links and page creation
Basic font modifications
Captions
Lists
Uploading files and image insertion
Comparing revisions
User dashboard

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Table of content
1 Recapitulation
2 Tables
3 Organizing content
4 Templates
5 Access Control Lists
6 Extensions
7 Licenses for open content

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Tables
Mediawiki can render tables
Example:
{|border=’1’ cellpadding=’10’ cellspacing=’0’
! First cell in the header
! Second cell in the header row
|-
| First cell in the second row
| Second cell in the second row
|-
| First cell in the third row
| Second cell in the third row
|}

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Table of content
1 Recapitulation
2 Tables
3 Organizing content
4 Templates
5 Access Control Lists
6 Extensions
7 Licenses for open content

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Categories
Categories help to group pages
Example: [[Category:My favorite sites]]
A link to the category page which lists all the pages in that
category is added. The description page of the category can
be edited.

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Namespaces
Namespaces group pages on a higher level
There are some default names spaces that have prefixes like
User:, File:, Talk:
The main namespace does not have any prefix
Namespaces can be added by modifying the configuration file

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Subpages
Subpages offer a way to build hierarchies of pages
Example: [[People/Scientists/Albert Einstein]]
Per default this function is available in the User name space
but has to be enabled for the main namespace

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Redirects
Redirects make it possible to generate aliases of pages
Example: The page “EMBL” of the English Wikipedia
redirects the user to the page “European Molecular Biology
Laboratory”
#REDIRECT [[European Molecular Biology Laboratory]]

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Table of content
1 Recapitulation
2 Tables
3 Organizing content
4 Templates
5 Access Control Lists
6 Extensions
7 Licenses for open content

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Templates
Templates make the reuse of content possible
Many pages in Wikipedia offer info boxes that are templates
with tables.

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Table of content
1 Recapitulation
2 Tables
3 Organizing content
4 Templates
5 Access Control Lists
6 Extensions
7 Licenses for open content

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Access control list
ACL: who can do what
who = a user or a group of users
what = read, write, create or delete pages; upload files

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ACL functionality is missing in Mediawiki
Due to its open philosophy Mediawiki has only very limited
user rights management capabilities
It distinguishes between users, registered users, administrators,
bureaucrat and bots
This is why we use DokuWiki for the ACL demonstration
You can search WikiMatrix for wiki engines with ACL

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Table of content
1 Recapitulation
2 Tables
3 Organizing content
4 Templates
5 Access Control Lists
6 Extensions
7 Licenses for open content

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Extension
Missing functionalities can be added by extensions
Example: ContactPage extension

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Table of content
1 Recapitulation
2 Tables
3 Organizing content
4 Templates
5 Access Control Lists
6 Extensions
7 Licenses for open content

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Licenses for open content
Open content = easy exchange, contribution to humankinds
knowledge, transfer of prosperity
Use e.g. Creative Commons licences / Public domain

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Selected links
http://www.wikimatrix.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software
http://www.mediawiki.org
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Namespaces
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirect
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates
http://www.dokuwiki.org/
http://www.dokuwiki.org/acl
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:All_extensions
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContactPage
http://creativecommons.org

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Image sources/attribution
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olibac/2354102486/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnath/91637121/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10037058@N08/3696670712/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/myuibe/2726798563/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90318532@N00/22078028
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/1028428/

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About this document
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Created in L TEX using the beamer class, TeX Live and Emacs.
All these programs run on OpenBSD.
http://www.latex-project.org
http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net
http://www.tug.org/texlive/
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.openbsd.org
Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (*)
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by Konrad F¨rstner
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http://konrad.foerstner.org
(*) Excepting the EMBL Logo
Document version 1.2 2010/04/21