Tips and Tricks for Using the Wiki
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Wiki Address[edit]
The address of the class wiki is: http://wiki.zsr.wfu.edu/social_stratification/. Bookmark it so it will be easy to access in the future!
Set Up Your Account, Login Instructions[edit]
To get started for the first time, find the link under Personal Tools that says login/create account. Login using your WFU login/password. This will create an account for you that allows you to create and edit pages.
Basic editing for an existing page[edit]
- Open the editing window by clicking on the edit tab.
- Start typing text
- Use the toolbar to help with formatting:
Button functions (left to right):
- Bold
- Italic
- Internal Link (create new page)
- External Link (link to web page)
- Headline
- Embedded Image
- Media File (attach a Word/pdf document)
- Mathematical Formula (we won't use this one!)
- Ignore Wiki Formatting (we won't use this one either)
- Signature with Time Stamp
- Horizontal Line
Using Manual Formatting[edit]
Additional formatting can be found on the Wiki Cheatsheet (under Toolbox in our Navigation Panel), but here are a few common ones:
Sample of the Edit Tab Window[edit]
A preview of this page in the Article tab[edit]
Creating a New Wiki Page[edit]
- Start in the edit tab of an existing page
- Create the page by typing a double bracket and the name of the page
- Type the pipe symbol between the file name and the link name
- Close the double brackets with two more brackets
- Click Save Page
- The new page will open in the edit tab view
- Begin editing the new wiki page
Linking to External Sites and Files[edit]
You can easily link to external web sites from within your wiki page. The code is illustrated in the table above and again in the screen shot in this section. Use a single opening and closing bracket that contains the complete URL followed by one space and then the text you would like displayed.
In addition, there are some special tags that will allow us to link to images that we take on the trip and store in Flickr. The same can be done if you post trip video clips to your YouTube account (See the code syntax below).
To display Flickr images in your wiki page:
- Find the image you would like to display
- Highlight the ID number of the image that is at the end of the URL displayed
- Copy its ID number to the clipboard (CTRL+C)
- Return to the edit window in your wiki page and paste the ID number between these beginning and ending tags:<flickr></flickr>
Your code will look like this:
A Final Caution![edit]
When you edit a page in this shared environment, be aware that if you edit a page at the same time someone else is editing it, the last person to hit the SAVE button "wins". Their edits will overwrite anything you have been working on! So communication is very important to making this type of collaboration work. Coordinate with your group members, plan how to set up your pages so that you don't run into each other unintentionally. And have fun!