Editing Courses/Wikis-Publishing Platforms (section)

=Course Description=
== Titel ==
Wikis as Publishing Platforms

== Instructor ==

André Castro

== Station ==

Publication Station

== About ==

Wikis form a family of web applications, dedicated to collaborative content creation. In a Wiki, anyone can easily become an editor and start creating content. Compared to other content management systems, Wikis impose little rules on its users, allowing them to develop workflows and structures based on the necessities and specificities of each project. This course will be based on the experience of devising a hybrid publishing workflow for the [http://beyond-social.org/ Beyond Social] magazine, centered around a [http://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Wiki]. The tools, methods, and protocols employed in Beyond Social will be revealed and explored, with the intention of finding ways in which they can be applied and extended to other hybrid publishing projects, within WdKA.

== Planning ==
* getting to know Wikis: Wikis origins, goals, and relevance in todays web; But also its syntax, structure, 
* converting Wiki pages into other formates, using Pandoc: website(HTML pages), EPUB, ICML(inDesign project) 
* Mediawiki API - access content through Mediawiki API, and in conjunction with Pandoc develop scripts which automate publishing tasks; Experiment with retrieving and applying normally hidden information, such as a page's history.

== References ==

* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Ward_Cunningham%2C_Inventor_of_the_Wiki.webm Interview with Ward Cunningham] - inventor of the first wikis
* Koren, Yaron. 2012. Working with MediaWiki. San Francisco: WikiWorks Press.
* Cramer, Florian. 2011. “A Brechtian Media Design: Annemieke van Der Hoek’s Epicpedia.” In Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader, 221–26. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-point-of-view-a-wikipedia-reader/


== Publishing and Art Projects Based on Wikis ==

* [http://beyond-social.org/ Beyond Social] and its [http://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page wiki]
* [http://toneelstof.be/ Toneelstof] and its [http://toneelstof.be/w wiki]
* [http://www.epicpedia.org/ Epicpedia] by Annemieke van der Hoek
* [http://p-dpa.net/work/iraq-war-wikihistoriography/ The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs] by James Bridle


== For whom ==

For anyone who's interested in finding simple and experimental ways to publish content on the web and in other supports.