wiki tutorial
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Introduction to Wiki Editing
For Andrew Famiglietti and Nirmal Trivedi’s sections of English 1102
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Dr. Trivedi’s Students Should Use the Wiki At: http://iron.lcc.gatech.edu/~ntrivedi6/1102/
Mr. Famiglietti’s Students Should Use the Wiki At:http://workingtropes.lcc.gatech.edu
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For the first section of this presentation, listen to the description and view the
page, but do not make any edits.
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Click here to Create Account
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Click here to create account
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Top Navigation Bar
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The Top Navigation Bar
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The Top Navigation Bar
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The Top Navigation Bar
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The Top Navigation Bar
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Links are in Blue
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Type “Good writing habits” into the search box and press go.
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Edit Tab
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New text being added
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Edit SummarySave Button
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New text appears on the page
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Click here for history
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Sample History Page Entries
Date and time of revision (click to see page as it looked at this date and time)
Editor who made the revision
Edit Summary
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Viewing an old revision of a page
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Viewing an old revision of a page
Buttons to navigate to older & newer revisions
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Comparing Selected Revisions
Click here to select earlier revision to compare
Click here to select later revision to compare
Click here to compare revisions
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To Revert a Page (Don’t Try This Now!)
• Select the older revision of the page you wish to revert to
• While viewing the older revision, click the “edit” tab
• Click save to replace the current version with the old one
• Mark your revision in the edit summary
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Discussion Tab
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The Discussion (or Talk) Page
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Adding a comment to the discussion
Use colons to indent your comment below the comment you are responding to
Sign with four tildas (the “~” symbol)
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The new comment has been added
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For the rest of this presentation, follow along with the instructions to create your User Page
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Click here to access user page
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Editing the blank user page
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Type your name and section number here
Don’t forget the edit summary!
Click here to save
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To add formatting
• Click the edit tab to edit your user page• Add three apostrophes on either side of your
name:
• Click the box labeled “this is a minor edit”• Save the page
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Adding the “About Me”Heading
• Use the edit tab to edit the page again• Heading codes use equals signs • Mark About me with two equals signs on
either side, like this: ==About Me==• Add your home town, make your edit
summary and save
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Add an external link
• Link to the Wikipedia article for your home town
• To make an external link type a square bracket, the url to link to, a space, the text you want the link to display, then another square bracket
• EX: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia Augusta, Georgia]
Square bracket
URL Display Text
Square bracket
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Add a fact & reference
• Find a fact about your hometown on its Wikipedia page
• Add the fact to your About me blurb• Add a reference tag to the fact by typing: <ref>Citation Information</ref>
• EX: <ref>Augusta, Georgia. (9 January 2010). In ''Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.'' Retrieved January 12, 2010 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia</ref>
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Adding a reference section
• Add a reference heading using the heading code as before
• Tell the Wiki software to insert references here by typing the code: <references/>
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Once you have added your link, fact, reference and reference section here….
Add the edit summary here!
And save the page!
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Adding more to the User page
• Click Edit to begin editing again.• Add whatever you like to “About me”• Add headings called “Pages I am working on”
and “Feedback”
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Adding more to the User page
• Add links to two pages you might like to work on under “Pages I am working on”
• To add a link to another page on the wiki, enclose the title of the page in two square brackets
• For example, [[Machine Labor]] links to the page entitled “Machine Labor”
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The page will look roughly like this when you are done
Don’t forget the summary!
Save the page!
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Adding categories
• Click Edit to begin editing again• Add category tags for your section and home
state (or country)• A category tag looks like this: [[Category:NAME OF CATEGORY]]
• EX: [[Category: Students in Section X2]] [[Category:Students from Georgia, USA]]
• Add category tags anywhere on the page
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Page will look roughly like this when you are finished
Don’t forget the edit summary!
Click save
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Adding a New Page to the Wiki
• First, return to the main page of the wiki by clicking “main page” in the left hand navigation bar
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Click this link to call up supplemental reading list
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Click Edit
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P Burdell added The Terminator, you should add a link to a book, movie, or TV show you enjoy and think might be relevant to class themes
Edit Summary!
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Red links go to pages that don’t exist yet. Click the red link to start a new page with this title.
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Adding content to The Terminator
Link to page relevant to The Terminator
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Add a link to your new page to your user page
• Return to your user page• Click edit• Under the “Pages I am working on” section,
add a link to the exact title of your new page. Capitalization counts!
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Thanks for watching this tutorial video
• If you need to re-try any of the demonstrations, simply back up the presentation and listen again
• Feel free to play with your user page and continue to learn about wiki formatting
• For more help try:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents#For_editors