User:Pulkitmehta10

 MediaWiki

On 27 November, 2013, I discovered this website through a competition "GOOGLE CODE-IN 2013" Before this competition I was worried about it. Actually we were not told exactly about the stuff of competition what we thought was that it contained some tasks related to 'Coding' in which I was not that much good. But when I received the list of Tasks, I was very glad to claim this task of writing a  'Discovery Report of Mediawiki'  which was actually related to 'Documentation' Category. In this Essay I have expressed my experiences and impressions regarding this Website.

The overall layout of MediaWiki is a nice one. Everything is easily accessible to the user.

The Left-pane consisting of Broad Categories with their Sub-Categories is a nice one. Since it gives the whole map of the Website. By using this it is very easy for a new user to know where the things are present (In simple words i should say 'easy to navigate').

The above Dashboard containing links for different actions like 'log out', 'preferences'........ etc. also impressed me because here also the new user can gain a good control over the website operation.

The most effective attribute of the interface is that there are shortcut keys assigned to most of actions !!

Yes, Yes, they are Just hover your mouse pointer over the actions for eg. For viewing "history" we can use alt-shift-h. This is something nice.

Only some actions were there which I was not able to find like ' i was not able to generate link for the page which i wrote '

Another was that the "View Source" command was a little bit difficult to understand well like it used different symbols for text attributes like "Bold" but it was then easily understood.

Moreover the "Tools" Category in left also proves useful for a new user.

One more thing about MediaWiki which can never be forgotten is that " THERE ARE NO ADVERTISEMENTS " which uselessly open in pop ups while operation of other websites.

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In simple words I should say it an Ideal Website.

-Pulkit Mehta