Laury's Rules for Wiki Work
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Laury's Rules for Wiki Work
- Please do the Wikipedia Tutorial first!
- Think before you wiki!
- Keep it organized!
- Look at other wiki entries to see how they follow a logical outline
- If you are to make the most of these webby connections then initial organization is key!
- Do not let pages get too long! Break them up. That is what a wiki is good at!
- Do not change my course pages/syllabi/documents except those pages designated for your fun and wiki games. If you deleted or lost some of my links on my syllabus, I would be bothered, I think.
- Talk to me first before uploading and posting pictures.
- But if you insist, please do not upload pictures wantonly. The pictures should be small sized. Think about the way the page looks and what kinds of pics would work. You can always just link to a page rather than upload the picture. Photos from your own camera are far too big to upload. Reduce their bytes by a million and you'll be okay to load them and use them.
- To upload pictures use the "upload file" page linked at the left. Use the header-title given after upload to make an in-wiki link.
- If you want to look through pictures already uploaded to choose for your page or pages, use the "special pages" link to your left. Then go to "file list."
- But please talk to me first. If you don't and cannot help yourself, use your discretion in uploading pictures.
- Do not upload copyright protected material!
- Do not do weird things that would make me ask you to delete your entry. Be respectful of the site and the topics!
- Use the guide below to remind you of the things you learned on your Wikipedia Tutorial.
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Short-hand Guide
You'll need to log in and go to edit to see the instructions. Click preview as much as you like to see how the code makes a particular style.
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Links
Links work within the wiki or link to pages outside the wiki. In-wiki links are how you create new pages, as well.
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in-wiki links
- In-wiki links make new pages or link to already established pages within the site
- for a new page simply type the title of the page in and make double brackets around it. When you save the page you are working on, you'll see it shows up in red on the saved page. Simply click on it. It will take you to your new page entitled whatever.
- If making a new page, try to select a page name that is general for the more general parts of your wiki outline and more particular for the more detailed parts (look at mine for examples)
- for a link to an already established page just type it exactly as it is on its header between double brackets such as Islam syllabus. It is case sensitive, space sensitive, everything sensitive. So be exact.
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off-site links
Simply make a single bracket and cut and paste the url, then type one space, then type the word or words you want to have act as the link clickaroo, then close the bracket. Done.
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Style Do-dads
- Use the bold and italic tools up top. Just select the text and click your option. The one that looks like underlining is to make things into urls, don't do that. Italicize where you would normally underline.
- You will notice that italics and bold use apostrophes as their code. Two for italics, three for bold. You can just write the apostrophes yourself rather than use the buttons.
- makes that little dot
- before anything indents stuff
- indents it more
- indents one of those dots
- double indents a dot, and so on
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Headings
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this makes subheadings
then you write text in
you have to return twice if you want a new paragraph otherwise it runs it together as if you didn't press return
See?
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this makes sub-sub headings
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sub-sub-sub
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SOMETIMES CHANGING CAPS HELPS DEFINE THINGS
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sometimes it is better to keep it lower
- Whatever you do, just be consistent or the Wiki loses its genius in orderliness
- Good luck!
