Course talk:HIST317/Empire - Abroad

Hey, Guys. Just feeling my way around this Wiki thing. I finally worked out how to do a table. I left a little format thingee at the bottom of our chronology, so you guys should be able to figure it out from there. I also linked the "Edit Help" page to the Wikipedia page so that other people can actually work out what to do.

Ha ha, in your faces. I was the first to do anything on here!

See you thursday.--Alex 15:30, 19 September 2007 (PDT)

Thought I'd stick the map up too, just to get the ball rolling, and all that.--Alex 16:46, 19 September 2007 (PDT)

good work Alex

great job putting up the chronology, nicely done! However, I remain confused as to how to make a table like you did, any suggestions?

how to do tables

I think you might have the hang of it now, but if not:

You have to use the '|' symbol (on the '\' key on the keyboard) like this:

Just copy and paste this bit:

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"

Then for the title you start with a '!'. and it will be bold, like this:

! This
! is

Each new line of code makes a new column.

Then, for a new row, you do this:

|- 

This will start a new row. After that do the same as above for doing more columns, except use the '|' symbol instead of '!', like this:

| a
| table
|-

Then to end the table just use this symbol: '|', followed by this symbol: '}', like so:

|}

So, all together it looks like this:

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! This
! is
|- 
| a
| table
|-
|}

And this produces a finished result that looks like this:

This	is
a	table

I removed the 'align=center' part in the first line so that our chronology would be aligned to the left of the page. --Alex 22:38, 20 September 2007 (PDT)

Notes

I had an idea. Since any notes I take in class will be on my laptop anyway, I figured I'd just stick them straight on here, so you all could see them. Maybe all of us with laptops could do the same, and we could have a bit of a bigger collection of resources, or something. Even Sam and Thomas could add stuff, like memos or whatever. I don't know. I figured since we have this communal resource, we might as well use it.--Alex 10:56, 26 September 2007 (PDT)

Keywords

I've thrown a few more keywords into the mix (at the bottom of the list). I'll define them when the document analysis is out of the way. If they're too specific or irrelevant to the course please feel free to delete them, although a reason would be nice. Sam W 09:45, 2 October 2007 (PDT)

Cool, cheers. I just finished the doc analysis now, so i have to do my memo, but i like the keywords.--Alex 13:30, 2 October 2007 (PDT)

Chronology

I added a couple of entries about the first Boer war. --Alex 13:59, 2 October 2007 (PDT)

Research Subjects

made a section for the research statements. just for posting and such... - tristan

Alex

Im going to be down stairs in the entrance to Koerner at 1:20, if you can meet down there :)

Righto, see you then.--Alex 12:39, 5 October 2007 (PDT)

I assume you meant first floor? --Alex 13:22, 5 October 2007 (PDT)

I did indeed, i was there for quite sometime, in fact i didnt leave the library until 3 in the end, but i suppose we just missed eachother.....strange. oh well, hope your research went well my friend.

Hmm. Very odd. I sat by the stairs for about half an hour. i pulled up a chair and everything. maybe you were already inside? Nevertheless, it went ok, sort of. Yourself?--Alex 21:48, 5 October 2007 (PDT)