NZ/EIT/Quick Wiki guide

Very Quick Wiki Guide

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To make a line start on a new line leave a blank line!!

Headings

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Unordered List

*Small animals

**MouseCat

**Dog

**Cat

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• Small animals
  • Mouse
  • Dog
  • Cat

Ordered List

My favourite animals (in order)
#Mouse
#Dog
#Cat

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My favourite animals (in order)

1. Mouse
2. Dog
3. Cat

Creating a new wiki page

[[New page]]

[[New page|Title of new page]]

(: A wiki can be made up of gazillions of pages, so make the names meaningful and unique to you. Some wikis like to create a heirarchy by using colon(:) others a forward slash (/)

If you have a user persona (I use VirtualMV ) you can create your own structure. For example, my User name is MVerhaart ( http://wikieducator.org/User:Mverhaart ) but my Content is under virtualMV ( http://wikieducator.org/VirtualMV ) so when I create a new page I use [[VirtualMV/NameOfPage|Title of Page]]. This also avoids page name clashes. )

Signing an edit

Something that is useful if you want to leave a message is the -~~~~. This will be replaced by your user name at the time you saved the change . For example: -Mverhaart 09:03, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Some trickier stuff

Images

There are several ways to add images, however the first "rule" is that the image is available on the internet. Two common techniques to add images are

1. Link from wikicommons or
2. Upload a file (see toolbar on the left) then link to the image

Adding from wikicommons

1. Search for an image at http://commons.wikimedia.org/
2. In the wiki page you want to insert the image, click on the insert image button
   [[File:Example.jpg]] will appear
   Change Example.jpg to the filename of the media commons file (cut and paste is easiest)

Adding your own image

1. Upload the image using "Upload File" from the toolbox (left of your screen)
2. In the wiki page you want to insert the image, click on the insert image button
   [[File:Example.jpg]] will appear
   Change Example.jpg to the filename of the File you uploaded (cut and paste is easiest)

Some extras

• To align the image
  • [[File:Example.jpg|left]] [[File:Example.jpg|center]] [[File:Example.jpg|right]]
• To change the image size
  • [[File:Example.jpg|100px]]

There's lots more but this is a quick guide :)

Table

{|style="border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" |Row# |ColTitle1 |ColTitle2 |- |1 |11 |12 |- |2 |21 |22 |}

Row#	ColTitle1	ColTitle2
1	11	12
2	21	22