CNM Wiki Essentials
What CNM Wiki Is (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the primary lecture that introduces its participants to CNM Wiki. The Lectio is the fourth part of the second learning activity, which is the CNM Cyber Entrance Exam preparation lesson, of the CNM Cyber Welcome Course. The Lectio is preceded by the What CNM Cert Is and succeeded by What CNM Video Is. The word, lectio, is used for a lesson part at CNM Cyber.
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- CNM Wiki is CNM Cyber's document collaboration system. Document collaboration systems usually help multiple people work together on single documents to achieve their distinguished latest versions. Before this welcome course was published at CNM Cert, it was developed at CNM Wiki. The course texts including its exam questions can still be viewed at the wikipage titled CNM Cyber Welcome Course there.
- There are two types of document collaboration systems. Collaborative realtime editors such as Google Docs and other web-based office suites belong to one type.
- CNM Cyber's document collaboration system utilizes another type, wiki engine, because of two reasons. First of all, wiki is more widespread in information technology development. Second, wiki engines are robust when it comes to tracking, which is vital in the learning process.
- CNM Wiki tracks different versions of those textual documents that have been developed there. This feature is called "history." Using that feature, older versions can be accessed and any revision can be "undo" or reversed. Wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning quick and refers to fast editing of the content.
- CNM Wiki is open to the public, but CNM Cyber utilizes several private wikis as well. CNM Lab, for instance, stores security-sensitive information, which cyber criminals can use to attack CNM Cyber. So, CNM Lab's wiki has to be private. CNM Certs features its wiki tool as a learning activity and CNM Social provides its communities with the private wiki too.
- We will take a look at these services one-by-one, starting with CNM Wiki. Why is that? Simply because we are using the wiki for this presentation.
- CNM Wiki is a development hub. Its developers published every text, link, and image we can find here. The texts were created using its document collaboration system. I can click "edit" and continue working on the content.
- For images, CNM Wiki has its software repository. If we click on any image here, we can see original files, as well as who and when uploaded them.
- Its version control system is another important feature. If we go to the top of the page, we can see on some right the View history tab. Let's open it -- now, we can see every revision which has ever been made on the page. There are many revisions. Let's find the oldest to see when this particular page we are on right now was created and even how it looked like when it was created.
- Talk pages allows developers to talk to each other. On the top of any wikipage as well, but now on its left, next to the "Page" tab, there is the "Discussion" tab. If we click here, we will get to another page attached to the main one. Here, we can write something like, "guys, please take it out." Regular visitors would rarely get here, but other developers can get the message.
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- Unofficial, but the most complete scripts of the lecture of this welcome course, all the questions of the final exam, and often direct answers to those questions are published at:
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