Online Wikipedia Training in Kenya

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.