Intro to wiki videos
Some useful videos for wiki newbies…
Leo Romero has created three screencasts showing how to edit the Silicon Valley Commons wiki, a “community for service-oriented organizations and people engaged in good work for the Silicon Valley”. The wiki, hosted by Wikia, uses the same MediaWiki software that Wikipedia uses, so it’s a good introduction to editing Wikipedia and many others wikis too, not just Wikia. The first video will teach you how to create an article, format text, insert images, preview, and save.
An interesting video if you want to know more about Wikipedia itself, rather than how to edit it, is the lecture video from the Harvard Law School course “CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion“. See the wiki for links to the 12th September lecture by Charles Nesson. Accompanying lecture notes are on the course’s wiki. The course is about is “the creation and delivery of persuasive argument in the new integrated media space constituted by the Internet and other new technologies” and is available to an “at-large” audience as well to Harvard students, with participation happening on the wiki, on blogs, and in Second Life.
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WikiAngela » Managing Online Communities Course said,
October 28, 2006 at 18:58
[…] Unlike Harvard Law School’s course “CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion” where virtual attendees can participate via blogs, wikis, and Second Life, (related post), you’d need to be in Arizona to participate in this one. Hopefully Wikimedia’s newest project, Wikiversity, will provide something similar in the not too distant future. Wikibooks has a very rough beginning to something like this in its “Wiki Science” section. […]
WikiAngela » More wiki videos said,
October 29, 2006 at 1:38
[…] As an update to my earlier post about videos introducing wiki, I found some more wiki-related videos/screencasts online. John Hubbard from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has a four-part online video course which will introduce you to the benefits and disadvantages of wiki. I watced the fourth part which is about “other wikis”. It covers Wikipedia’s sister projects, Citizendium, Memory-Alpha, and various library wikis. John briefly discusses options for getting your own wiki at the end of the video. He concludes by saying he would “eventually like it to be true that the Muppet wiki … is not more developed than the library wikis out there”. :) Andrew (aka Tawker) has published the first of a series of flash-based tutorials which covers very basic MediaWiki editing techniques. […]