Tool_Wiki_Nairobi_July2012_session

=Wiki training session Nairobi= Nairobi, Information Centre, 10 July 2012

This session was a general (and partly hands-on) session about using wikis.

The session covered:


 * **Introduction:**
 * What’s a wiki? Ask around. Why do we want to use wikis? See '6 wiki rules at Nasa' and Wikis in plain English video.
 * What advantages and what disadvantages from the wiki? Buzz and come up with that;
 * What experience do you have with wikis? What would you like to be able to do or to discuss?


 * **Basics and advanced:**
 * Setting up account?
 * Basic navigation: navigation menu, options top left, edit and more. Top right if you’re admin
 * Basics functions (simple editing menu);  all to use a special page on the sandbox with their name on it and then peer support each other to do stuff together;
 * Advanced: Navigation menu, other options (e.g. look and feel, users etc.) – but a lot of that is taken care of by Tsehay;


 * **How we use wikis at ILRI:**
 * For projects:
 * Put pages for all themes/teams: see NBDC pages
 * Bring other widgets e.g. pictures, calendar, RSS feeds (news and publications)
 * Put all links from other platforms (e.g. develop an ‘about’ page pulling text from blog or vice-versa) see NBDC page
 * Link to the wiki from Yammer etc. see NBDC yammer
 * For events:
 * Prepare agenda on the wiki; see IMGoats page
 * Standard header (for context); see IMGoats page
 * Standard set of links: agenda, participants, outputs and occasionally other things; see IMGoats page
 * At the end of the event, clean up the wiki page to display results and quick links; see IMGoats page, Africa RISING and CCAFS social learning
 * Link to the wiki from Yammer etc.
 * Other tips: save regularly (auto-save), copy/paste from a text file to avoid funny formatting.


 * **How to pitch the wiki to others?**
 * Saves time to store docs;
 * Informs everyone in real time;
 * You can work collaboratively on documents, pages, events etc.;
 * You can find all project-related docs;
 * At events, shows all participants where to find live documentation;
 * Drives traffic to other platforms;