User:Wonghk3/Sandbox/WU-Contributors -- Editing an Article

Contributor Lessons

1. HOME
2. What is the Wiki?
3. Anatomy of a Wiki Page
4. Your Personal Pages
5. Editing the Wiki
6. Getting Help

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Getting Started

Let's go to work!

Having reviewed the first four lessons, you should be familiar with:

• what the Wiki is and it's purpose;
• what standards are to be followed;
• what the common links and tabs represent on each page; and
• how to create your personal pages, especially workarea sandboxes.

You are now ready to begin editing in the Wiki.

Visual Editor or Wikitext Editor?

Wiki code can be edited using either Visual Editor or Wikitext Editor.

Visual Editor

• This editor is considered a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor and works like a word processor.
• It is used to generate wikitext code or HTML code which will affect a page's appearance.
• You can learn more about using this editor in the Wiki University Visual Editor Tutorial.

Wikitext Editor

• Wikitext, also known as Wikicode, is a hypertext markup editor that consists of specific syntax and keywords to format a page.
• Although this editor is harder to learn, it is considered more robust than Visual Editor; meaning, you can have more varied effects on a page than Visual Editor.
• You can learn more about using this editor in the Wiki University Wikitext Tutorial.

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Editing in the Wiki

This section will focus on "How To Edit" by providing links to step-by-step processes and mini demonstration videos using either of the two editors.

Task Description	Visual Editor How To Links	Wikitext Editor How To Links	Visual Editor Video	Wikitext Editor Video
Add or modify text Edit page Preview page Save page	Click "Edit" on the page tab. Highlight the text to be changed and make the change or add new text to where you want it on the page. Link to: How to Preview and Save a page.	Click "Edit source" on the page tab. An edit box will appear in which you will see the wikitext coding for the page. Add or modify words, sentences, or other page information. Scroll to the bottom of the page to preview and save page: > Add a short description of your changes in the Summary box. > To preview your changes, click on the Show preview button. > To save your changes, click on the Save changes button. > To cancel out of the page without saving anything, click on the Cancel button, then press Leave. Caution: when the Show preview button is pressed, the top of your page will display a view of the page as it will be seen with your changes saved; the bottom will display the wikitext code. Be sure you save the page, else you will loose all of your changes because Show preview does NOT save the page.	[place VIDEO 3 here]	[place VIDEO 8 here]
Page construction headers text style: bold/italics lists	Click "Edit" on the page tab. Link to: How to create Headers. Link to: How to add Text Styling. Link to: How to create Lists.	Click "Edit source" on the page tab. Link to: Wikitext--Headers. Link to: Wikitext--Bold and Italics. Note: other styles require specific syntax code using Inline styling and attributes. Link to: Wikitext--Lists. Link to: Wikitext--Nesting Lists.	[place VIDEO 5 here]	[place VIDEO 10 here]
Link to Wiki pages or websites internal link external link What is a red link?	Click "Edit" on the page tab. Link to: How to create a Link. Red links are pages which do not exist. --- Henny todo: modify VisualEditor instructions due to Upgrade --- Highlight the text to be made into a link. Click on the Links icon. Enter the Page title (if internal) or URL (if external). Mark whether the link is To a Wiki page or To an external web page, then click on the "Insert link" button.	Click "Edit source" on the page tab. Link to: Wikitext--Links. Link to: Wikitext--Detecting and fixing broken links.	[place VIDEO 4 here]	[place VIDEO 9 here]
Adding references Citing references Reference list placement	Click "Edit" on the page tab. Link to: How to Cite a Reference. Link to: How to place a Reference list.	Click "Edit source" on the page tab. Link to: Wikitext--References. Link to: Wikitext--Reference placement.	[place VIDEO 6 here]	[place VIDEO 11 here]
Adding tables	Click "Edit" on the page tab. Link to: How to create a Table.	Click "Edit source" on the page tab. Link to: Wikitext--Tables. To Customize Tables, refer to lessons from the Wikitext "Intermediate" sidebar. Here's a link to the first lesson: Intermediate Wikitext--Table borders.	[place VIDEO 13 here]
Submitting images for upload	1. Be sure your image conforms to the Wiki Image Use Policy. 2. From the Research Wiki sidebar, go to the section entitled Edit the Wiki and click on Upload File/Image. 3. You will be taken to a page named "Email File for Authorization". Complete the form and attach your file then press the "Send file" button. 4. You will be notified once the file has been uploaded into Wiki.		[place VIDEO 12 here]

NOTE: Refer to User:Wonghk3/Sandbox/WU-Contributors -- Workarea for "How To" links that we may be able to use and Danielle's mini-video list.

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