Editing Courses/Wikis-Publishing Platforms (section)

= Course Goals =
By the end of this course participants should have:
* developd an understanding of wiki as flexible, customizable and open (read-write) publishing environments on the web.
* familiarized themselves cultural context in which Wikis developed, as well as the motivations that led to their development and popularity.
* familiarized themselves with the conventions of wikis, such as syntax, pages' structure, revisions, categories, namespaces.
* understood and explored the wiki as an inherently hybrid publishing environment, by:
** comprehending syntax as a structured language - a markup language - compatible to HTML and other markups, which results in the easy and lossless translation to many publishing formats and forms: websites, EPUBs, paper (through Scribus/inDesign), visual maps (SVG). 
* exploring the possibilities of the wiki's API, as a way to programmatically access information from the wiki, opening up the possibilities for creating generative wikis, which are constantly informed by updates on the wiki.


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