Education/Countries/Bulgaria/WWT/Curriculum

Curriculum of the "Wikipedia and Wiki Technologies" lecture course.

1. Introduction. Encyclopedias: definition, overview, timeline around the world and in Bulgaria. Wikipedia as encyclopedia and as a community of volunteers. Philosophy and technology of wikis. Timeline of Wikipedia. Sister projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Elements of interface, namespaces search, recent changes. Choice of username, preferences, personal page, talk page, subpages.
2. Edit mode and wiki markup. Editable namespaces. Menus and buttons in edit mode, history, watchlist. Minor revision, edit summary, preview, show changes. Text formatting: bold, italic, indents, ordered and bulleted lists, sections, Contents. Links, categories, interwikis. Citing sources and footnotes. Formulas. Page moving and redirection.
3. Principles of writing in Wikipedia. Verifiability, neutral point of view, no original research, reliable sources, notability criteria, biographies of living Persons.
4. Specifics of the encyclopedic style. Contents structuring, tense, transitional expressions, terminology, punctuation, weasel and peacock words, sticking with the topic, putting the topic in context, indicating gaps and problems.
5. Wiki etiquette for communication. Civility, assume good faith, be bold. Talk pages and Village Pump, signatures, talk page archiving.
6. Authorship and copyrights. Free content, free software, free licenses, free culture. Wikipedia's Licensing policy for text and media. Terms of use. Translations from another Wikipedia.
7. Multimedia in Wikipedia. Usage and sharing of multimedia. Criteria for encyclopedic illustrations and multimedia. Choice of free license. EXIF.
8. Organization of content. Categories, lists. Templates, template types, parameter types. "Subst:". Parser functions. Special pages, logs, "MediaWiki" namespace. Translation and localization of interface messages.
9. User groups and rights. Anonymous users, editors, administrators, bureaucrats, bots. Administrative instruments: page protection, page deletion, user blocking.
10. MediaWiki and other wiki software distributions. Applications of wiki websites. Corporate wikis, wikis in education and academy. Successful stories.
11. Wiki installation and configuration.