EXERCISE: HOW TO USE A WIKI

Prof. Dr. Walter Ruf

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http://www.kajak.fi/in_english.iw3

Practice Wiki

Use the following trailsystem: http://141.87.12.119/ruf/wiki/index.php

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Wiki Exercise

 Create teams in the class (3 – 5 students) Each team creates a topic in the wiki-web for a

real or hypothetical project. With your team divide a project into component

parts, such as introduction, historical background, relevant research, and future developments.

Let each member take a component and create a collaborative paper.

(White, Bruce, A.; Pauxtis, A: Web 2.0 for Business, 2010, S. 35)

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1. Create an account on http://141.87.12.119/ruf/wiki/index.php4

2. Search for Basic Information Helpfile:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

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3. Create an new pagehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page

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New Page7

Create an internal link Write the name of the page Show preview Save page

4. Edit pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Section_headings

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5. Use the Wiki markups for editing

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Further exercises

Make your own page in the wiki use your name as the name of the page

Find some words, sentences and paragraphs to „Web 2.0“

Put these examples on your own wiki-website. Make a link to the wiki website of your neighbour Make a link to an external website (www.walter-

ruf.de) Change the wiki website of your neighbour Have a look on the history of your wiki-site.

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