Online MediaWiki Training in the UAE

This course is designed for individuals interested in learning how to create, modify, and manage content with MediaWiki software.

This course is designed for individuals who will be using MediaWiki software as editors, users, and website administrators.

This course covers:

• Locating the information you need on an existing site
• Creating, modifying, and deleting pages
• Designing the structure of a page
• Evaluating the optimal structure for the entire project
• Managing users
• Building and overseeing a community

Examples of projects using MediaWiki:

Wikipedia - Free encyclopedia

Wiktionary - Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikinews - Free news content source

Wikiversity - Free educational resources

Commons - Shared media repository

Wikibooks - Free textbooks and manuals

Wikiquote - Collection of quotations

Wikisource - Free source documents

Wikispecies - Directory of species

MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki platform. This one-day course offers an introduction to Semantic MediaWiki for participants.