Functions of Wiki

CNM Cyber

Functions of Wiki (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the lesson part of the CNM Wiki Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to CNM Wiki. This lesson belongs to the CNM Cyber for Competence session of the CNM Cyber Orientation.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Collaboration on Documents.

Key terms

Wiki engine. Software that is designed to support creation, collaborative editing, storage, and usage of hyper-linked documents. The editing usually occurs through a web browser. The Engine that is ready to be installed is called wiki software. The Engine that is installed, usually on one or more application servers, is called a wiki application. Sometimes, the Engine can be referred as knowledge management software. One or more wiki applications are usually used in order to build a document collaboration system.

• Version control (revision control, source control). In configuration management, management of changes to documents, computer files, and/or other resources. Each revision is associated with its metadata such as a timestamp and the author of the change. Commonly, revisions can be compared, restored, and with some types of documents, merged. Version control systems are standalone software applications that work with one or more databases, which store revised documents, or software repositories, which store revised files. Nevertheless, version control tools are often embedded in various types of software such as document collaboration, learning managements, and project management systems.

Knowledge base. A self-serve library of search-optimized documents and other resources. Web-based knowledge bases often include some software repository to upload, store and share image and multimedia files.

• Image file. Any computer file that holds image elements.
• Discussion page (talk page). Any webpage that is designed for discussions. Discussion pages are vital for Internet forums. MediaWiki pairs every wikipage with its discussion page as a user feature to enable discussions around the paired wikipage topics.

Script

Using its version control tool, 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.

If you go to the top of any wikipage at CNM Wiki, you can see on some right the View history tab. If you open it, you should be able to see every revision which has ever been made on the wikipage and its metadata. For instance, you can find the oldest one to see when the particular wikipage was created and even how it looked like when it was created.

For images, CNM Wiki has its software repository. If you click on any image at CNM Wiki, you should be able to find original image files, as well as their metadata including who and when uploaded them.

Talk pages allow 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 you click here, you will get to another page attached to the main one. Here, you can write anything that you feel like other contributors should be aware of. Regular visitors would rarely get here, but other developers can get information behind the "scenes."

Wiki at Competency Suite is the successor lectio.

Questions

Lectio quiz

The answer is recorded for the lectio completion purpose:

1. ? --Yes/No/I'm not sure/Let me think/Let's move on

Placement entrance exam

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:

1. CNM Cabin
2. CNM Cert
3. CNM Social
4. CNM Tube
5. CNM Wiki

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