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Creating pages

Screen shot of the page editing screen

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Starting a new page

  • Login (there is a login link at the bottom of every page, including the wiki home page)
  • From the wiki home page, type the title of your desired page into the second search box and click "Create this page"
    • Use exact capitalization, spelling, punctuation, etc.
    • Begin editing the page
  • Or, on an existing page, link to a page that doesn't exist.
    • Click on this link to begin editing this new page.

Editing existing pages

  • Login (there is a login link at the bottom of every page, including the home page)
  • At the bottom of every page is an "edit" link. Click on this to begin editing the page you are currently viewing.

Naming pages

Page names are important when using a content management system. So think carefully about how the name of your wiki page can help keep all the pages you create organized. However, it also helps keep URLs short by using shorter page titles. So length is also a consideration. Fell free to use brief page titles to keep wiki URLs short.


Adding headings

  • Use "semantic" markup to structure your pages
  • Use equal ( = ) signs to create headings
    • ==Top Level Heading==
    • ===Secondary Level Heading===
  • Use the level 2 heading button Screen shot of the H2 editing button
    • A level 2 heading is automatically formatted for you.
  • A table of contents is automatically generated when you have more than 3 top level headings
    • Add __NOTOC__ to *not* display the table of contents
    • Add __TOC__ to display the table of contents even if you have three or fewer headings

Lists

Ordered and unordered lists are powerful ways to create pages with "semantic" meaning. For example, use unordered lists for lists of links and use ordered lists when describing a process.

Unordered lists

Use an asterisk (*) to create an unordered list item. For example:

*List item 1
*List item 2
*List item 3

Creates:

  • List item 1
  • List item 2
  • List item 3

Ordered lists

Use a pound sign (#) to create an ordered list item. For example:

#List item 1
#List item 2
#List item 3

Creates:

  1. List item 1
  2. List item 2
  3. List item 3

Definition lists

Definition lists are an easy and semantically correct way to create lists of annotated links. For example:

C.O.D. Library 
The College of DuPage Library is a premier community college library providing a full range of information services. Use their Web site to search for books, articles, and other Web sites to aid you in your research.
http://www.cod.edu/library/

Use this code:

;[http://www.cod.edu/library/ C.O.D. Library] : The College of DuPage Library is a premier community college library providing a full range of information services. Use their Web site to search for books, articles, and other Web sites to aid you in your research.<br />http://www.cod.edu/library/

The key elements are the semicolon ( ; ) before the definition term--a named link to the Web site--and a colon ( : ) that separates the site name from the site description. There's no need to put descriptions on new lines, use line breaks, or "bold" each title. However, if you want to add the site URL at the end of the description (which, is a good idea) you will still use a line break to put the URL on it;s own line.

See the Wikipedia examples page for more examples.

Links

Internal links

Internal links are links to pages within the site. For instance, you link to the "About us" page from your research guide.

  • Use the internal link button to link to pages within the site Screenshot of the internal link editing button
    • Replace the sample code with your link information
  • Or use double brackets to link to internal pages:
    • [[Link_page_title|Optional link text]]
  • For example, to link to the history images page with the link text "Historical images", I would use this code:
    • [[Images: History|Historical images]]

Remember, double brackets are for internal links.

See the Wikipedia links tutorial for more details.

External links

External links are links to pages outside of the Library site. For instance "http://google.com/" or "http://www.cod.edu/".

  • Use the external link button to link to pages outside of the Library site Screenshot of the internal link editing button
    • Replace the sample code with your link information
  • Or use single brackets to create external links:
    • [http://example.com/ Link text]

Remember, single brackets are for external links.

See the Wikipedia links tutorial for more details.

Images

  1. First, upload your image using the image upload page.
  2. Then link to your image using the image button or typing in the appropriate code:
    1. [[Image:Example.jpg|Short description of your image]]
    2. Make the image float to the right:
      [[Image:Example.jpg|right|Short description of your image]]

Special items

Breadcrumbs

To create "breadcrumb" links like those at the top of this page, use the code below and fill in the appropriate link information:

<p class="breadcrumbs">[http://www.cod.edu/library/ Home] > [[Secondary_page_name|Secondary page]] > Current page</p>

Help pages

  • Whenever you are in edit mode, click on the "Editing help" link next to the save buttons to open a help page in a new window.
  • Go into edit mode on other pages to see the code

Special Wiki Features

When you are logged into the Library wiki, you will see a number of administrative options at the bottom of the screen: (image coming)

Deleting pages

  • Contact Colin if you need to have a page permanently deleted.

Renaming pages

  • Use the "Move" link at the bottom of each page to rename pages.

Discussion pages

Discussion pages are important in that they allow any other users to comment on pages you create offering suggestions or corrections. Every page you create will automatically have a discussion page created. To see this page, click on the (image) at the bottom of each page.

To help facilitate discussions, it is a good idea to create some useful headings on the discussion pages attached to each page you create. Use the code below to add some standard headings to the discussion page:

==General comments==
==Suggested resources==
==Broken links==

History

Clicking on the "History" link at the bottom of each page allows you to see the version history of that page. You can also run a "diff" on different versions to see how they differ.

Watchlists

  • Every page you create is automatically added to your watchlist.
  • Refer to your watchlist on a regular basis to see if there have been any comments made about your pages or if any edits have been made to your pages.
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