Instructions

Registering

• Create an Account: click here
  • Make up a user name, something like FirstLast would be nice, but anything works
  • Provide a valid email (you will receive an activation email at this address)

Making a change to an existing text

• Log into the Wiki, check the top right corner, or click here
  There is a "Keep me logged in" check box to stay logged in for future sessions.
• Navigate to a page you want to change
• Click either "Edit" or "Edit source".
  • "Edit" launches a comfortable editor that allows you to make changes via buttons to change the font or insert links etc.
  • "Edit source" launches a raw editor that allows you to see and edit the markup of the text. You need to know which character or tag does what. This requires some learning however it is sometimes easier for changes that involve changing the size of an image or its location or the flow of text.
    For help: click here

Adding a picture to a page

• You have two choices:
  1. Upload the image from the top level menu and name it. Then in a second step, edit a page and refer to the named image (same steps as 2., just choose your image instead of uploading it).
  2. Edit a page in "Edit" mode (not "Edit source"), then place the cursor where you want to insert the image.
     • Choose Insert -> "Images and media"
     • Choose the "Upload" tab on the top
     • Click "Select a File"
     • Check "This is my own work"
     • Click Upload
     • Enter a description (anything works, will not be shown)
     • Click Save
     • Click "Use this image"
     • Select "Advanced" tab on top
     • Uncheck "Wrap around this item"
     • Change image type to "Basic"
     • Change image size to "Custom"
     • Override the first number of the size and enter 300
     • Click "Insert"

• If you want the image to stay with the paragraph above it, go into "Edit source" mode and find where the image has been inserted. Then separate the image reference with <br> from the last line, for example: xxxx last line of paragraph.<br>[[File:yyy.jpg|300x300px]]

Adding a document to a page

• Upload the file from the top level menu on the left: "Upload file" or click here.
• Edit the page in "Edit source" mode and enter the link for example for the file xxx.pdf as [[:File:xxx.pdf|xxx.pdf]] (the vertical line character "|" separates the name of the file on the left from the link text to the right of it).

Creating a new page

• New pages are created by inserting a link to the new page before it exists. After saving the page with the new link, the page will show the new link in red. Clicking on that link will create the page (the Wiki will open an editor for the new page. You can switch between "Edit" and "Edit source" as you like).
• Links to pages are enclosed in double square brackets, e.g. [[New Page]]