WikiWorkshop

From UBC Wiki

http://wiki.ubc.ca/WikiWorkshop

New to Wikis?

Check out this intro to 'wikis in plain English'

Why use wikis?

  • Collaborative writing
  • Quick page creation

Creating a Page

  • Search to see whether someone has written a similar page before you start one yourself. Choose the title carefully. If the page does not exist you will be asked if you would like to "create this page".

Editing

  • Log in: See the top right of this screen: click login --enter your own user name (one text string [e.g., Workshop]) and password.
  • Make a page to edit: Type the title of a page you would like to create in the "search" box. If a page by that name is not on this wiki system you will be offered a chance to create one. Click “create this page” and begin typing.
  • Add text to an existing page: Click "edit" (see tabs at top of screen) and type. Click "save page" at the bottom of page when you have finished. (If you are typing material you don’t wish to lose, keep a copy of your text in a document on your hard drive.)
  • Basic and advanced formatting: The basic formatting commands in MediaWiki can be accessed via the formatting buttons. See the MediaWiki page on this subject: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
  • External Linking: Paste a URL into your page. A "Captcha" box will appear as a spam prevention measure when you click "save page." Fill it out: if you have done so correctly your link will appear in your page.
  • Adding Images: Find an image you want that is in the public domain online (look here, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_image_resources). Make sure you have the image URL, and not the URL for the page in which the image is embedded (image URLs usually have suffixes like jpg or gif--not htm or html). Paste the URL in your page. Save.
  • Embedding video: You may link to a video the same way you link to any page, by pasting the video URL in your wiki page. If you want to embed a YouTube video, copy this code and paste it in your page:
{{#widget:YouTube|id=cgCVumXD2q8|400}}

You'll now have an informative lecture on Blake's "Tyger" displaying in your page. Go to the YouTube site. Note that all videos have alpha-numeric ID numbers. To change the video, replace the video identification number in the above code with the number of the video you want to display. To change the size of the video, change 400 at the end of the line: 100, 200, or 300 will make the video smaller; 500, 600, 700, etc, will make it larger. (The number simply denotes the width of the display in pixels.)

Examples of wiki uses:

Other collaborative writing spaces

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