Wikieducator tutorial/Index

see also: Category:Wikieducator Tutorials

Wiki Editing

Getting Started

• Basics of editing
  • Edit links
  • Your first edit
• Creating an account on WikiEducator

Basic text formatting

• Editing toolbar
• Bold
• Headings and subheadings
• Indents
• Italics
• Lists
  • Bullet list
  • Numbered list

Creating New Pages and Links

• Creating New Pages
• Internal Links - creating links to other pages within the wiki.
• Piped Links - giving links more descriptive names.
• External Links - linking to sites outside of the wiki.

Inserting Images and Media

• Types of Media Supported
• Basic Syntax for Inserting Images
• Creating Thumbnails, Frames, and aligning Images
• Inserting Other Media Types

Collaborative Editing

• Recent Changes
• Differences and History - Comparing changes to pages
• Reverting - Reverting back to a previous page

Pedagogical Templates

• Template syntax

Structure

• Subpages
• Navigation templates
• Categories

Wikis, WikiEducator and free cultural works

• Copyleft
• Defining Free cultural works (Free content)
  • Essential freedoms of free content
  • Permissible restrictions
  • Additional conditions
• Essential freedoms of free software
• Licenses for free content
  • GNU Free Documentation License
  • Creative Commons licenses
• The WikiEducator community
  • Values of the Wikieducator community
  • Types of WikiEducator initiatives
• What is a wiki?
  • Advantages
  • Disadvantages
  • What about quality?