On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Yan Seiner <y...@seiner.com> wrote:
> I've been working on a wiki for a company. We are putting all their user > manuals in wiki format. Company personnel have been involved with the > content and presentation but not with the nuts-and-bolts of the editing. > > I've been asked to put together a class / training session for the company > on using the wiki. These are technical people (engineers, designers, > mechanics) and their tech knowledge is high, but they really don't have any > experience with editing and maintaining wiki articles. > > I'm sure I'm not the first to do this, so in the best tradition of the > Internet, I am looking for any tutorials or lesson plans I could use as a > starting point. > > I've already compiled a list of the mediawiki/Help pages and wrote up the > documentation of my own tweaks; what I need is the basics, introduction, > examples, and so on to help me structure the class. > > Thanks! > > --Yan > There's always Jon Udell's classic Heavy Metal Umlaut vid<http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/umlaut/umlaut.html>as well as this one <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNBahdIAzFo> created by the Mises Institute as an introduction to its wiki. You might model your approach on one of those. Perhaps Wikiversity's MediaWiki page<https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MediaWiki>could use some expansion, but I've had trouble figuring out what to write, given that there are already so many how-tos out there on the topic. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
