Bromley by Bow Centre/Study Circles on Wikiversity/What is Wikiversity

Study Circles on Wikiversity Back Introduction · Study Circles · What is Wikiversity · Getting Started · Useful Wikiversity links Next Learning by sharing Bromley by Bow Centre, Thursday 2nd February 2012

What is Wikiversity?

• It's free
• Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project
• Let's check the Wikiversity Main Page.
• Let's check About Wikiversity

What is Mediawiki?

Mediawiki is piece of open-source software developed for wikipedia.

It provides an archive (history) of each wikipage, so that:

1. There is a record of every previous version of the page
2. Errors can easily be reverted.
3. Each persons contribution can be recporded in line with intellectual property licensing which covers Wikimedia projects

• Let's check the Mediawiki on wikipdeia.
• Katrina PeopleFinder Project as an example of a project using Mediawiki.

Creative Commons License

• See link at the bottom of the page!