MediaWiki for Content Editors

None. This course DOES NOT require any programming skills!

This course has been created for anyone who would like to learn how to create, edit and organize content using MediaWiki software.

Basic Editing

• Creating new page
• Editing a page
• Discussions and comments
• Revisions, tracking history and reverting changes
• Uploading imagines, audio files and movies
• Templates (do not repeat yourself)

MediaWiki syntax

• Font formatting
• Tables
• Resizing and positioning pictures

Organizing Content

• Links
• Categorizing Pages
• Understanding Namespaces
• Moving (renaming) a page
• Redirects
• Deleting a page

The way it looks

• Adjusting skins
• Custom CSS
• Custom Javascript

Finding your way

• Special pages
• User pages
• Namespaces