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[edit] Introduction
So you've heard of wikipedia, and now EWB-OC has its own wikipedia! but lets just call it a wiki for short.
A wiki is basically a very informal, open, and empowering documentation tool. You don't even need to login at all! Lets walk through some basic actions.
- Editing a page
- Adding Text
- Adding a new pages
- Adding images
- Adding links
While you go through this tutorial, if you want to try and test something out, play in our Sandbox and go crazy!
[edit] Editing a Page
When you start browsing the wiki through links that already exist, you may feel an urge to ADD something. To do this, you simply need to Click the "Edit" Tab at the top of the page.
- Todo add a picture for editing
[edit] Adding text
Now that you started editing a page you see something that looks like this, a bunch of text mixed in with special formatting. Right now if you just wanted to fix some spelling, you can find where it is and then just change it and click save. But to do something more interesting with the special formatting, read the following sections.
[edit] Headers
A wiki page is organized into sections. The biggest sections is surrounded by one equal sign, the second by two, the third by 3, etc:
= Heading 1 = == Heading 2a == == Heading 2b == === Heading 3 === ... ==== Heading n ====
where n goes to infinite
[edit] Bulleted Lists
To make a bulleted list, just put a "* " behind each item in your list
* Number 1 * Number 2 * Number 3
It will look like this:
- Number 1
- Number 2
- Number 3
[edit] Numbered Lists
Just like bulleted lists, for numbered lists, just put a "# " behind each item in your list
# Number 1 # Number 2 # Number 3
It will look like this:
- Number 1
- Number 2
- Number 3
[edit] Bold/Italics
'''Bold me'''
results in Bold me text
and
''Italicize me''
results in Italicize me
[edit] Images
Adding images is beyond simple, just copy and paste the URL!
http://ewb-oc.org/Images/Kids_800px_Copy.jpg
results in
There's one catch, when you put any links going to an outside webpage, you will need to solve a little math problem. This helps keep spammers out of our wiki:
- include math problem
[edit] Links
Links work exactly very easily
http://ewb-oc.org
results in http://ewb-oc.org
but lets say you want it to look prettier
[http://ewb-oc.org EWB Orange County professionals]
results in EWB Orange County professionals
[edit] Making new pages
Ok here is what we've all be waiting for.. you want to create a new page! It works just like the above links section
[[New Page]]
results in New Page
and
[[New Page|Feel free to click on this page and then edit it!]]
results in Feel free to click on this page and then edit it!
[edit] Conclusion
So now that you hopefully used only 5 minutes to go through this tutorial, play in our Sandbox and go crazy! I recommend reading the below Additional Help section if you want to become a wiki GURU!
