Editing Courses/Wikis-Publishing Platforms (section)

=Day 1=

''Getting to know wikis: what are wiki. wiki syntax, pages, categories, Extensions.''

==Wiki Intro - What are wikis?==


== Context: wikis as (hybrid) publishing platforms ==
* Publishing 
** what is written on wikis is public; 
** Low threshold for publishing - click the edit button

* (Hybrid)
** wiki content can easily be published under different formats or context.
** Examples: Wikipedia Export book function; [http://toneelstof.be/ Toneelstof], [http://beyond-social.org/ Beyond Social], or this presentation (both wiki content and slide show)
 
==Wiki Origins==

==Ward Cunningham Wiki Wiki Web==
In 1995 Ward Cunningham creates the first wiki, naming it Wiki Wiki Web (Wiki in Hawaii means quick!). 

* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Ward_Cunningham%2C_Inventor_of_the_Wiki.webm Interview with Ward Cunningham]
** links between pages, as ways to connect information
** links to non-existing, encourage the creation of the new pages
** read-write system - writing is as natural and expected as writing 
** the wiki territory expands as a result of contributions 
** anonymous editing - collaborative writing.

==Wikipedia, Wiki Media Foundation, MediaWiki==
* 2000 - Jimmy Wales attempts to create a free online encyclopedia - Nupedia.
* Nupedia fails.
* 2001 - After hearing about wikis Wales and Larry Sanger decide to build Nupedia on it, calling it Wikipedia. 
* Wikipedia was first build using a software called UseModWiki (a sibling of Wiki Wiki Web). UseModWiki was slow and didn't support the scale Wikipedia was growing into.
* A new wiki software for Wikipedia, starts is developed, based more efficient and scalable web technology: PHP programming language, MySQL database. The software got the name of MediaWiki. 
* 2002 - Wikipedia switches to using MediaWiki.
* 2003 - Wiki Media Foundation is created.
* MediaWiki currently power many wikis, including Wikipedia and subsidiary project, as well as other wiki such as this one.

==Wiki software==
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] - PHP, MySQL, Webserver
* [https://www.dokuwiki.org/ Docuwiki] - similar to MediaWiki
* [http://moinmo.in/ MoinMoin] - Python, relies on plain text files & folders
* [http://zim-wiki.org/ Zim] - Desktop wiki, relies on plain text files & folders.
* [http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - another Desktop wiki, based on HTML files and Javascript 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software Comparison of wiki software]

==Running a wiki: 2 options==
Install and set up a wiki in your PC or server.

OR

Use a wikifarm (wiki host), such as [http://www.wikia.com/Wikia Wikia]. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hosting_services List of several wiki farms].

==wiki conventions==
==Users==
To edit a wiki you need most wikis to register as user.

Different user's groups have different privileges: 
* user: can edit and create pages 
* administrators: can delete pages, put other users into a different group
* bot

==Wiki Markup language==
Wiki Markup: structured text, simplified version of HTML, easily converted to HTML.

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Markup Cheatsheet]
* [[Tutorials/wiki_tutorial]]
* [[File:Cheatsheet-en.pdf|page=1|thumb]] [[File:Cheatsheet-nl.pdf|page=1|thumb]]

==Pages==
==Pages Creation==
Pages can be created by:
* creating an empty page link, clicking it, and start editing. The following <nowiki>[[my empty page]]</nowiki> will translate to [[my empty page]] 
* adding the page name to URL bar, you'll be directly to the empty page, and start editing <nowiki>http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/wiki/index.php/my empty page</nowiki>

* <span style="color:red">Red</span> link = previously non-existing page. 
* <span style="color:blue">Blue</span> link = existing page.

==Talk Pages==
Every Page has its respective Discussion or Talk page. 

Talk pages are the site of discussion and conflicts that go on to the making of an article.

An example: Talk page on Invisible [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn Pink Unicorn Wikipedia article]



==User Pages==

==Experiment:Edit User Pages==
Create and edit your user page. 

Include internal (to pages on this wiki) and external (to web pages outside this wiki) links.

Include an internal and external image.

==Files and Images==
To include non-text media (images,pdfs,audio-video) on the wiki, a File page needs to be created as a place-holder for the file
* <nowiki>[[File:myimage.png]]</nowiki>
* the page must be saved
* click on the red link, of the file you want to upload
* Follow the instruction to upload your file

==Pages' Revision History==
The history of versions or revisions of a page is stored.

They can be accessible via "View History"

Each revision shows its author, time, action, and at times summary.

'''Revisions can be compared, edited and undone.'''

==Artworks exploring Wikipedia's Revision History==
[http://p-dpa.net/work/iraq-war-wikihistoriography/ The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs] by James Bridle, collects the history of changes from the Wikipedia's article on The Iraq War between 2004 and 2009.

[http://www.epicpedia.org/ Epicpedia] by Annemieke van der Hoek transforms Wikipedia's revision history into a theater script.

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/
 
Works that:
* present other interfaces to Wikipedia, 
* placing in the foreground the revision history: 
* question the neutral point-of-view and unified nature of Wikipedia articles.

==Experiment:History==
Rewind the history of edits from your user page to a previous stage, and back to the current.

== Structuring a wiki ==
What situations require an overall structure, more elaborate than its  "flat" systems of pages?

==Subpages: simple hierarchy==
Subpages are useful for organizing information hierarchically, as parent/child/grandchild 

A subpage of a given main page, is create by adding a slash, followed by the sub-page's name, to the main page name.
 <nowiki>[[main page/subpage/sub-subpage]]</nowiki>

Example: this very page [[Courses/Wikis-Publishing Platforms]] is a sub page from the [[Courses]] page 

<nowiki>{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}</nowiki> can be placed on a parent page to display all its children.

== Namespaces: separate spaces ==
Namespaces are container for specific content. 

* Example: the Namespace Wrecks in this wiki was created for material dedicate to Wrecks project and not a part of the Publication Station [[Wrecks:Main_Page]] and [[FIN:Main_Page]]

* Note: Namespaces need to be created in the configurations of the wiki.


== Categories: Tags, Hierarchies, Spaces, States == 
'''Categories''' are (the only) ways to tag content.

<nowiki>[[Category:courses]]</nowiki> a page to the courses category

Problems: No limit to the categories that can be added to a page.

==For next week==

Install [http://pandoc.org/installing.html Pandoc] on your machines. We'll use it to convert wiki content on other formats.