Online Wikipedia Training in Latvia

This course has been created for anyone who would like to learn how to create, edit and organize content using MediaWiki software.

This course has been created for people who are going to use MediaWiki software as editors, users and website administrators. This course explains how to:

• Find the information you are looking for on an existing site
• Create, edit and remove pages
• Design a structure of the page
• Analyse the best solution for the structure of the entire project
• Manage users
• Create and manage a community  

Some projects using MediaWiki: Wikipedia - Free encyclopedia Wiktionary - Dictionary and thesaurus Wikinews - Free content news source Wikiversity - Free learning tools 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 software. This one-day course provides participants with an introduction to Semantic MediaWiki.