The Wiki Class

Class outline - Wiki

1. What is a wiki?
   • how does Free Geek use it?
   • what eltze does Free Geek use?
2. Navigation (e.g. Tabs, Side Bar, Categories.)
3. Searching and how it works.
4. Do you have a login? if not, we'll have to create one
5. Page elements (wiki markup)
   • Headers - creats the table of contents
   • Bullits - adds a bit of structure
   • links - O Ok.
   • Templates - what are they?
6. Now the fun part - its a wiki, no mistake is unfixable.
   • Create a "red link" so we can create a page
   • Fill our the page with your info (whats the difference between "Save page" and "Show preview")
     • One way to do this is - Cut and paste into the new page a basic page layout (for the rpg its a template)
   • Have every one check out history, why comments are a good thing?
7. Have the students edit an existing page. (the cook book project)
   • Look through the pages that have been created to find one that isn't in the proper format
   • Adjust the page to make it more like the others.