Wiki - Editing

Overview

• intro to authoring Wikitext, structure of Wikis, pages live in "Namespaces"
• markup conventions like Wikitext markup
• how to keep organized, add Creative Commons Attribution License and why it's used
• extensions on Wiki
• create pages and add them to categories (make sure it's in own user space)
• create page stubs for journal and make Insights! page
• for formatting help: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Moved_to_MediaWiki

Editing

• can edit any page you have access to, can edit Student Wiki
• click Edit at edges of page, takes you to editable source code, can see previews
• 2 apostrophes to emphasize text, 3 to emphasize more, 5 to emphasize most
• empty line starts a new paragraph
• break lines using
• characters at beginning of line:
• hashtag for numbered list
• star for bullet
• ; for term
• : for definition
• can use HTML tags: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext
• links in
• footnote like link ^[]
• using "TOC" to force placing table of contents at position of this magic word, suppress with NOC (with double underscore in front and behind
• header levels defined by the number of = characters before and after the header text

Namespaces

• collection of pages
• behaviour of the software can be customized for different namespaces
• ex: can edit in the main and user namespace but not in the MediaWiki namespace where pages are held that affect the functioning of the wiki
• page names without prefix live in main space, common prefixes:

1. User: - personal pages for user with an account on the Wiki;
2. Talk: - discussion pages for comments on pages, accessible via the “Discussion” tab;
3. Help: - this page for example;
4. Template: - pages with reusable text.
5. Special: - pages that implement special functionality (like login, user lists, or lists of recently changed pages);
6. Category: - an index of pages that have been given a common tag. This is a convenient way to access pages that are in some way related;

Categories

• once page edited, can associate it with categories
• add appropriate category tag by typing ex: Category:BCH441_2013
• page is then automatically linked from a page that collects all pages with that category tag (don't make new ones)

User space

• Namespaces allow us to distinguish pages that share the same logical name
• Every student will create a journal page, but there can be only one Journal page on the Wiki
• so, each of these pages needs a distinct name, solution: keep them in the User: namespace, and create them as subpages of everyone’s User page
• page name of your user page is User:; subpages are created with a backslash, and therefore your Course Journal page should be User:/Journal
• don't create pages in the “Main space” of the Student Wiki, don't omit the User:/ part of the page name

Copyright

• All material submitted for credit must be licensed with an appropriate open-source license
• For code - MIT software license, for everything else - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
• The MIT license for code guarantees that there are no restrictions on re-use other than fair and visible attribution of the authors’ work. The CC license guarantees proper attribution of authorship but allows free use otherwise
• Enter the template code {{CC-BY}} to create the copyright message: This copyrighted material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.