Editing Pages

To edit a page select layout_edit.gif Edit from the Actions Menu at the top of the page. The page will be displayed in edit mode.

Wiki pages are formatted by Wiki Markup. Wiki Markup lets you set text as bold or italic, mark paragraphs and page sections, add bullet points and titles, and link one page to another along with a whole host of other formatting options.

Wiki Markup is performed using a simple set of character combinations. For instance placing some text between two pairs of underscores marks the text as bold like this

The previous paragraph looks like this in edit mode:

((Wiki Markup is performed using a simple set of character combinations. For instance placing some text between two pairs of underscores marks the text as bold __like this__))

The edit page has a button Preview at the top of the page. Click this to see the page as it will be displayed when saved. The Preview button becomes an Edit button when in preview mode. Click the Edit button to return to editing the page.

When you are happy with your page, click the Save button or the save icon page_save.gif. Your page will be saved and the saved version will be displayed.

A full set of Wiki Markup is listed here.

Normally edit mode text is displayed in the standard Wiki Edit pane. To help with formatting, the character combinations have been added to the standard pane as a set of buttons. Just highlight some text then press the formatting button. The correct Wiki Markup characters will be added to your text. Hovering over the buttons displays their function.


Action Buttons

Page Editor Markup Buttons

Formatting Buttons

  • text_heading_1.gif - Heading 1
  • text_heading_2.gif - Heading 2
  • text_heading_3.gif - Heading 3
  • text_horizontalrule.gif - End of section horizontal line
  • text_list_bullets.gif - Bulleted list
  • text_list_numbers.gif - Numbered list
  • page_white_gear.gif - Mark as code example
  • pilcrow.gif - Paragraph style
  • text_bold.gif - Bold
  • text_italic.gif - Italic
  • picture_empty.gif - Put text in a box
  • page_white_link.gif - Add link to page in this wiki
  • world_link.gif - Add link to page on internet
  • report_link.gif - Add link to wikipedia page

Creating New Pages

All pages in a Wiki should be referenced by another page to allow people viewing your wiki to navigate to them.To create a new page in a Wiki you start by linking to it using a Wiki link. This is some text in square brackets on the page you want to link from.

For instance I want to create a page about The Beatles. I edit the page I want to link to my page from and add a wiki link.

Example

For instance I want to create a page about [The Beatles]. I edit the page...

Becomes

For instance I want to create a page about The Beatles. I edit the page...

You will see that the words The Beatles is shown in red. If you were to click on the link then you would be shown an edit screen for that page. Please don't follow the link shown as this example would be broken.

On your new Beatles page you might want to list the band members and create a new page for information on each. To do this we create a bulleted list.

Example

*[John] *[Paul] *[George] *[Ringo]

Becomes

However this would create a number of ambiguous pages. There is more than one John in the world. We still want the list to look the same but the pages to have the persons full name. We do this in the following way.

Example

*[John|John Lennon] *[Paul|Paul McCartney] *[George|George Harrison] *[Ringo|Ringo Star]

Becomes

You'll notice that the list still looks the same, but when you hover your mouse over the name, an edit link to the persons full name is displayed.

We could go a step further and associate the named pages directly with the Beatles page. We do this by creating a hierarchical link. This is done by placing the parent page name infront of the page name separated with a slash /

*[John|TheBeatles/John Lennon] *[Paul|TheBeatles/Paul McCartney] *[George|TheBeatles/George Harrison] *[Ringo|TheBeatles/Ringo Star]

Becomes

If you wanted to link to John Lennons page on another web site you would change his link as follows

Example

*[John|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon]

Becomes

Notice that the link is followed by a link icon. All external links are marked like this in the Wiki.