turn transclude into a link to shorten the presentation and also avoid issue of heading depth |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
# DONE Contact Andy Oram about getting a copy of the O'Reilly MediaWiki book; invite | # DONE Contact Andy Oram about getting a copy of the O'Reilly MediaWiki book; invite | ||
# 85% Write outline, get more detail out at BostonPHP website | # 85% Write outline, get more detail out at BostonPHP website | ||
# | # 100% Publicize // sent notice to local groups, O'Reilly, facebook, Meetup etc. | ||
# 50% Complete presentation | # 50% Complete presentation | ||
## 10% Images | ## 10% Images | ||
| Line 23: | Line 23: | ||
== Intro == | == Intro == | ||
MediaWiki is the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the [http://www.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation]. | Cue POTY slideshow and play in loop 30 minutes prior to presentation | ||
Cue mediawiki slideshow 5 minutes prior to presentation | |||
MediaWiki is the free software (GPL) that runs Wikipedia under the auspices of the [http://www.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Foundation]. | |||
I'm Greg Rundlett [http://iic.harvard.edu/people] [http://freephile.com] [http://rundlett.com], a free software advocate who lives in Newburyport, MA with my wife and two sons. I'm here to show you a lot of things about the wiki system called MediaWiki and hope that you'll take away a lot from this presentation. The great thing about sharing knowledge; like sharing free software; is that you can take away as much as you possibly can and I may take away an even greater knowledge than I started with just from our sharing. Nobody has less, everybody has more. | I'm Greg Rundlett [http://iic.harvard.edu/people] [http://freephile.com] [http://rundlett.com], a free software advocate who lives in Newburyport, MA with my wife and two sons. I'm here to show you a lot of things about the wiki system called MediaWiki and hope that you'll take away a lot from this presentation. The great thing about sharing knowledge; like sharing free software; is that you can take away as much as you possibly can and I may take away an even greater knowledge than I started with just from our sharing. Nobody has less, everybody has more. | ||
Plus our organizer Mark Withington has arranged through the BostonPHP association with O'Reilly Media for some free books to be given away as well. | |||
== Using it == | == Using it == | ||
| Line 37: | Line 40: | ||
[[Image:Logo Wikiman�a Buenos Aires.jpg|thumb|300px|WikiMania]] | [[Image:Logo Wikiman�a Buenos Aires.jpg|thumb|300px|WikiMania]] | ||
Does your wiki have a foundation to keep it going? | Does your wiki have [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home a foundation] to keep it going? | ||
I do want to point out that MediaWiki does not use <ref>CamelCase</ref> words in order to make a link. This means a lot to all the Irish people of the world, and also the marketers who seem pretty convinced of the coolness of McWords like ThinkPad, etc. | I do want to point out that MediaWiki does not use <ref>CamelCase</ref> words in order to make a link. This means a lot to all the Irish people of the world, and also the marketers who seem pretty convinced of the coolness of McWords like ThinkPad, etc. | ||
Revision as of 21:49, 12 January 2009
- ↑ CamelCase
