Pad: https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/specialissue-2017-09-18
introduction
For a more extensive list see Wiki
To edit a wiki you need most wikis to register as user.
Different user's groups have different privileges:
Wiki Markup: structured text, simplified version of HTML, easily converted to HTML.
Pages can be created by:
Every Page has its respective Discussion or Talk page.
Talk pages are the site of discussion and conflicts that go on to the making of an article.
An example: Talk page on Invisible Pink Unicorn Wikipedia article
[http://beyond-social.org/prototypes/author-maps/wiki-author-articles.html Beyond Social Users & Articles Map]. A SVG map of the Users and the articles each has edited in the Beyond Social wiki. It uses:
To include non-text media (images,pdfs,audio-video) on the wiki, a File page needs to be created as a place-holder for the file
The history of versions or revisions of a page is stored.
They can be accessible via "View History"
Each revision shows its author, time, action, and at times summary.
Revisions can be compared, edited and undone.
The Iraq War: A History of Wikipedia Changelogs, James Bridle, collects the history of changes from the Wikipedia's article on The Iraq War between 2004 and 2009.
Epicpedia Annemieke van der Hoek transforms Wikipedia's revision history into a theater script.
Cramer, Florian. 2011. “A Brechtian Media Design: Annemieke van Der Hoek’s Epicpedia.” In Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader, 221–26. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/critical-point-of-view-a-wikipedia-reader/
What situations require an overall structure, more elaborate than its "flat" systems of pages?
Subpages are useful for organizing information hierarchically, as parent/child/grandchild
A subpage of a given main page, is create by adding a slash, followed by the sub-page's name, to the main page name.
[[main page/subpage/sub-subpage]]
Example: this very page Courses/Wikis-Publishing Platforms is a sub page from the Courses page
{{Special:PrefixIndex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}} can be placed on a parent page to display all its children.
Namespaces are container for specific content.
Categories are (the only) ways to tag content.
[[Category:courses]] a page to the courses category
Problems: No limit to the categories that can be added to a page.
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) to MediaWiki
While traditional wikis contain only text which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that allow a wiki to function as a collaborative database.
Properties and types (datatypes) are the basic way of entering semantic data in Semantic MediaWiki. Properties can be viewed as «categories for values in wiki pages». They are used by a simple mark-up, similar to the syntax of links in MediaWiki:
Property name::property value
An API or application programming interface is an interface that allows interaction via other software. It allows things such as apps to be build on top of existing services, where the apps use the API to interact with the service.
Mediawiki API is a Web API.
Essentially it means that the API is accessed thought HTTP requests and responds using JSON or XML object.
Note: might be helpful to install a JSON add on to your browser, to pretty-prints JSON content.
Mediawiki API allows many and very intricate request for information (and editing) from Mediawiki installations.
A few examples will follow, you can request using your web browser. Including a Pretty-prints JSON extension on your browser, as it will help you read the API's responses.
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=info PZI MD wiki Main Page
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Wiki_publishing&prop=revisions&rvprop=content This page Page
action=render
Action render is a simple way of obtaining just the page content as HTML markup.
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/index.php?title=Wiki_publishing&action=render
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php? format=json & action=query & titles=Wiki_publishing & prop=revisions & rvprop=content
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php? - endpoint - the home page of the MediaWiki web service. It can be found by going to the Version:Special page of a wiki a searching for the API entry pointformat=json - the format of the output. Can either be JSON of XML, although XML is being phased outaction=query - what action to you want to performed. query is the most used, but there many more available options, such as editing and deleting pages.Then comes the action specific parameters
titles=Wiki_publishing - the page queriedprop=revisions - what properties you want from of a page: revision. As no particular revision is specified the latest will be returnedrvprop=content - what specific properties you want from the page revision in question: content. You could also ask for the user who created the last revision, or the comment left by the user. These properties can be combined in a single request. rvprop=content|user|commenthttp://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=Main_Page&prop=images
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Special Issue
Documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=allusers&aulimit=100
limit of 100 users