Beginner's Guide to the Wiki - Revision history

Q-Cumber at 23:05, 13 October 2011

2011-10-13T23:05:55Z

Q-Cumber: FORMATTING

2011-10-13T23:00:17Z

FORMATTING

Q-Cumber at 22:59, 13 October 2011

2011-10-13T22:59:42Z

IronyFail: Information added, and we missed our set deadline.

2010-08-02T01:24:15Z

Information added, and we missed our set deadline.

Stefanido: Redirects taken from Style Guide

2010-04-08T15:57:08Z

Redirects taken from Style Guide

Stefanido: Added link

2010-04-07T17:02:32Z

Added link

Burn: /* Editing a page */

2010-03-17T03:19:37Z

‎Editing a page

Burn: /* Editing a page */

2010-03-17T03:19:08Z

‎Editing a page

Darth Wombat: /* Links */ - added section on liking to pages outside of this website

2010-03-13T05:04:48Z

‎Links: - added section on liking to pages outside of this website

Stefanido: Created content. Lauren asked me for help, so I'd already written some stuff out. Don't feel obligated to keep it, Ben.

2010-03-11T15:40:47Z

Created content. Lauren asked me for help, so I'd already written some stuff out. Don't feel obligated to keep it, Ben.

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 ==Creating a page==
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 In order to link to a page outside of the wiki, for example one on Wikipedia, you would use single brackets, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS]</nowiki>. If you want it to show up as something else, simply add a space after the URL and then type out whatever you want to text to appear as, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page]</nowiki>. If you try this you will see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page].
 ====Redirects====
 Let Foo be the redirecting article and Bar be the article it redirects to.

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 In order to link to a page outside of the wiki, for example one on Wikipedia, you would use single brackets, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS]</nowiki>. If you want it to show up as something else, simply add a space after the URL and then type out whatever you want to text to appear as, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page]</nowiki>. If you try this you will see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page].
 ==See Also==
 * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents Wikimedia's Help Pages]

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	In order to link to a page outside of the wiki, for example one on Wikipedia, you would use single brackets, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS]</nowiki>. If you want it to show up as something else, simply add a space after the URL and then type out whatever you want to text to appear as, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page]</nowiki>. If you try this you will see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page].		In order to link to a page outside of the wiki, for example one on Wikipedia, you would use single brackets, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS]</nowiki>. If you want it to show up as something else, simply add a space after the URL and then type out whatever you want to text to appear as, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page]</nowiki>. If you try this you will see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page].
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		+	==See Also==
		+	* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents Wikimedia's Help Pages]

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 ==Editing a page==
-If you go to a page that doesn't exist by following a red link, you'll be prompted to edit it immediately, but if you're editing an already existant page, you'll need to click the "Edit" tab at the top of the page. Some pages are protected and can only be edited by System Operators (SysOps) such as the members of the [[Wiki Task Force]] . The [[Main Page]] is an example of a protected page.
+If you go to a page that doesn't exist by following a red link, you'll be prompted to edit it immediately, but if you're editing an already existent page, you'll need to click the "Edit" tab at the top of the page. Some pages are protected and can only be edited by System Operators (SysOps) such as the members of the [[Wiki Task Force]] . The [[Main Page]] is an example of a protected page.
 ==Questions and Comments==

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	===Links===		===Links===
	To make a link to another page on the wiki, enclose the text in double square brackets eg.<nowiki>[[link]]</nowiki>. This will link to the page name enclosed, so if you wrote <nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki>, you would link to the [[Main Page]]. However, if you want to link to a page without using its name in the link text, you need to write the page name then a vertical bar and the the text to be displayed as in <nowiki>eg. [[Page to Link\|you will see this]]</nowiki>. For example, if we wanted to link to an article about [[EVA Suits]] with the text "Space Activity Suit," we would write <nowiki>[[EVA Suits\|space activity suit]]</nowiki>, and you would see [[EVA Suits\|space activity suit]].		To make a link to another page on the wiki, enclose the text in double square brackets eg.<nowiki>[[link]]</nowiki>. This will link to the page name enclosed, so if you wrote <nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki>, you would link to the [[Main Page]]. However, if you want to link to a page without using its name in the link text, you need to write the page name then a vertical bar and the the text to be displayed as in <nowiki>eg. [[Page to Link\|you will see this]]</nowiki>. For example, if we wanted to link to an article about [[EVA Suits]] with the text "Space Activity Suit," we would write <nowiki>[[EVA Suits\|space activity suit]]</nowiki>, and you would see [[EVA Suits\|space activity suit]].
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		+	In order to link to a page outside of the wiki, for example one on Wikipedia, you would use single brackets, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS]</nowiki>. If you want it to show up as something else, simply add a space after the URL and then type out whatever you want to text to appear as, as in <nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page]</nowiki>. If you try this you will see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCESS The OCESS Wikipedia Page].

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		+	==Creating a page==
		+	To create a page, you need to click on a [[Red Link]]. You might find red links around the wiki, or if you want to create one yourself, you can search for a pagename that doesn't exist in the search bar on the left hand side of the screen. If the page truly does not exist, you'll see a message
		+	<pre>There is no page titled "red link". You can create this page. </pre>
		+	Where "this page" will be the red link to the page you want to create.
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		+	==Editing a page==
		+	If you go to a page that doesn't exist by following a red link, you'll be prompted to edit it immediately, but if you're editing an already extant page, you'll need to click the "Edit" tab at the top of the page. Some pages are protected and can only be edited by System Operators (SysOps) such as the members of the [[Wiki Task Force]] . The [[Main Page]] is an example of a protected page.
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		+	==Questions and Comments==
		+	If you're not sure whether or not to edit something, or you want to comment on the way information is being presented without changing it yourself, make a note of it in the Discussion or Talk page of the article you're considering. To do this, click the "discussion tab" at the top of any page.
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		+	===Discussion Best Practices===
		+	If you're opening a new category of discussion, create a new header by using two equals signs around some header text, as in "<nowiki>==Header 1==</nowiki>."
		+
		+	If you're responding to someone else's comment, prefix your comment with a colon ("<nowiki>:</nowiki>"). This will cause it to be indented by one indentation. This means that if your comment is the third one in a conversation (the second reply), you need two colons, as in "<nowiki>::Reply lorem ipsum, etc."</nowiki>
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		+	'''Always''' sign your comments with a series of four tildes <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>. This will cause your username, and the time of your edit to be appended to your comment. For example, were I to sign this with four tildes, you would see "[[User:Stefanido\|Stefanido]] 10:40, 11 March 2010 (EST)"
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		+	==Text and Links==
		+	===Text===
		+	To add text to a page, just enter it as you normally would into a word processor. However, you should put a blank line between paragraphs.
		+
		+	===Bulleted Lists===
		+	To make a bulleted list use asterisks (*), as in
		+	{\|align=center
		+	\|-
		+	\|Width=200px\|<pre>loremipsum dolorsitamet
		+	*Item 1
		+	*Item 2
		+	*Item 3
		+	</pre>
		+	\|Width=200px align=center\| Yields
		+	\|Width=200px\|loremipsum dolorsitamet
		+	*Item 1
		+	*Item 2
		+	*Item 3
		+	\|-
		+	\|}
		+
		+	===Links===
		+	To make a link to another page on the wiki, enclose the text in double square brackets eg.<nowiki>[[link]]</nowiki>. This will link to the page name enclosed, so if you wrote <nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki>, you would link to the [[Main Page]]. However, if you want to link to a page without using its name in the link text, you need to write the page name then a vertical bar and the the text to be displayed as in <nowiki>eg. [[Page to Link\|you will see this]]</nowiki>. For example, if we wanted to link to an article about [[EVA Suits]] with the text "Space Activity Suit," we would write <nowiki>[[EVA Suits\|space activity suit]]</nowiki>, and you would see [[EVA Suits\|space activity suit]].