Wiki Training in Chicago

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at end users who wish to learn how to use XWiki to better collaborate with team members within their organization. By the end of this training, participants will be able:

• Create, manage, and customize team pages and blogs.
• Customize XWiki for the right look and feel.
• Track changes to content using version control features.
• Set up a blog, manage comments, and customize the display.

This instructor-led, live training in Chicago (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators who wish to deploy and manage an XWiki server. By the end of this training, participants will be able:

• Install a configure an XWiki server on premise.
• Create and manage users.
• Secure and optimize an XWiki server.
• Upgrade, back up and restore an XWiki server.
• Extend and customize the functionality and look and feel of XWiki.

FitNesse is a test framework written in Java that allows testers, developers and customers to collaboratively create test cases on a wiki. It enables an agile style of acceptance testing where testers collaborate with developers to develop a testing suite. FitNesse supports applications written in Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, C, and PHP using FitNesse. In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use a Wiki based collaborative approach for creating and maintaining test cases, then executing those tests against a demo application. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Take examples of desired software behavior and turn them into automated tests that are viewable and editable through a Wiki
• Write and execute tests via the browser, command line (using RESTful syntax) or a JUnit test
• Create test fixtures that allow non-technical people to write tests by modifying a Wiki page
• Use FitNesse as a knowledge base and repository for story and theme requirements

Audience

• Test engineers
• Developers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

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.