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Revision as of 12:46, 17 June 2020
Contents
Introduction
A wiki is a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly using a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages for the subjects or scope of the project and may be either open to the public or limited to use within an organization for maintaining its internal knowledge base, as we are doing it for University Innovation Fellows program. It is important to remember that this site is different from that of the UIFs main website. The website has information about the program and other details which are mostly showcase it to external folks, but whereas the Wiki, can kind of internal site for the fellows community, to interact, collaborate, discuss, and create resources which everyone can share, use and contribute to.
Wikis are enabled by wiki software, otherwise known as wiki engines. In our case, we are using MediaWiki. Some important features of a wiki platform are;
- It differs from other web-based systems such as blog software, in that the content is created without any defined owner or leader.
- It has little inherent structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.
- Wiki engines usually allow content to be written using a simplified markup language and sometimes edited with the help of a rich-text editor.
You might be wondering might what this has to do with one of the most popular Wiki-names we hear, Wikipedia. Yes, the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki-based website, and is one of the most widely viewed sites in the world, having been ranked in the top ten since 2007. In addition to Wikipedia, there are hundreds of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including wikis functioning as knowledge management resources, notetaking tools, community websites, and intranets. Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described wiki as "the simplest online database that could possibly work." "Wiki" is a Hawaiian word meaning "quick."
Structure
As detailed above this site has established and tailored according the needs of the UIF community. It was initially established in 2013, and had gone through a major revamp and restructuring in 2020. Historically, the Wiki has been used by fellows to create their profiles, resources such as "How to", organisations etc. but post 2020 revamp training of to-be fellows will also take place on the wiki. However, this is not applicable to cohorts or prior. For site maintenance, several structures are in place to keep the pages in tact, and to streamline the work being on done this. This is primarily organised through two standards, namely "Namespaces" and "Categories" - these are further explained the sections fellow.
Namespaces
A namespace is a set of wiki pages whose names begin with a particular reserved word recognized by the MediaWiki software (followed by a colon), and it is also the first level of classifying pages on the wiki. For example, in the fellow namespace all titles begin with the prefix Fellow:. Only pages related to "Main page" or related/similar pages such as cohorts are in the main-space, which do not have any prefix. Only admins (UIF team) can create pages in this namespace. Though MediaWiki software comes with several default namespaces, not all of them are used on this Wiki. The namespaces active and relevant for fellows on this Wiki are:
| Namespace | Purpose | Link to the list of pages |
|---|---|---|
(Main) |
For main page related/similar pages | [1] |
User: |
For users, for fellows the fellow page takes precendence | n/a |
File: |
For files (images, videos etc.) present on this wiki | [2] |
Help: |
For help pages regarding the wiki, similar to this page | [3] |
Category: |
further explained in the next section | [4] |
Fellow: |
For fellows' profiles | [5] |
School: |
For pages of various colleges and universities where there are/were UIF fellows | [6] |
Priorities: |
For pages schools' respective student priorities pages | [7] |
Resource: |
For pages such as "How to XYZ", that would help fellows in enhancing their UIF work | [8] |
Organization: |
For pages created by fellows as part of their training, regarding certain organisations | [9] |
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Categories
Categories can be considered as the second level of classification on the wiki, after namspaces. They are intended to group together pages on similar subjects. Categories help readers to find, and navigate around, a subject area, to see pages sorted by title, and to thus find article relationships. Categories are normally found at the bottom of an article page. Clicking a category name brings up a category page listing the articles (or other pages) that have been added to that particular category. They are implemented by a text like [[Category:XYZ]] in its wikimarkup to the automated listing that is the category with name XYZ. The subcategorization feature makes it possible to organize categories into tree-like structures to aid navigation. They are present at the end of every page.
Organisation
As explained above, categories are organised according the relevant subject groups, and on this Wiki, these are generally based on namespaces, cohorts, and schools. To further explain;
- Every namespace is associated with a respective category, mostly with the namespace name itself. Relevant ones are:
Namespace Category Help:Category:Wiki help pages Fellow:Category:Student Contributors School:Category:Schools Priorities:Category:Student Priorities Resource:Category:Resources Organization:Category:Organizations For cohorts from 2020, training pages categories are in the format of Category:NNNN Training, where is NNNN is the year(+season, if applicable) for example, 2020.
You can directly access these from the search bar on top right.
- Category:Cohorts and Category:School Categories are two major categories;
- "Cohorts" category has subcategories according each year and season, and these contain school-wise categories for the respective cohort. If there are no fellows from a school for a certain cohort, that category will be empty.
- "School Categories" category contains subcategories according each school, and then further divided as per cohorts. Apart from cohorts, these categories also contain the school page and respective student priorities.
- Both these categories are quite similar, only the ordering in hierarchy differs. In Cohorts, first division is according to Cohorts, and then Schools. In School Categories, first division is according Schools, and then Cohorts.
Note: DO NOT edit existing categories on pages and unnecessarily add new categories, unless you are specifically instructed to do so by your mentors or UIF team members, as this may disrupt the existing structures. In case of any doubt, that if you feel a certain page has wrong categories, please inform the UIF team before making any changes.
