Wiki help
From IVFDF 2008 Wiki
See my contact details if you need help on anything mentioned here or email, see send email via wiki at the bottom of the page. You can only read most pages if you are logged in, and thus is it closed to the committee and IVFDF external advisors. There are tabs at the top of the page, menus at the top right, menus on the left, and menus when you are editing. I've now organised this help section by where the menu is, e.g. logging in is top right menu. You can use the forwards/back buttons in your web browser to move between pages, or use links on the pages, these change depending on which page you are viewing. You can go back to Main page (menu on the left) if you get stuck.
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Features of the wiki
The idea of this wiki is that multiple people can view the pages and make changes, unlike a website which is more static. the features below are all explained in this help section below. I will add to this section as I find out more, so keep checking for new features.
You can view a user's profile to see their contact details, send an email via the wiki, or use "my talk" to send a user a message (this is publically viewable).
You can watch changes to the wiki to see how the IVFDF planning is going for all sections of the committee. This does depend on EVERYONE updating the wiki regularly.
You have a preferences section. You have to confirm your email address to get notifications of page changes/or message to your "my talk."
You can upload files to the wiki, e.g. pictures.
Top right menus
Create an account or log in
Click this at the top right of the webpage in small blue letters, it's there on every page of the Wiki.
John Brown will have created an account for you if you are on the committee. If you think you should have an account contact him by email, or email the committee on ivfdf2008-planning@ceilidhsoc.org.
If you have a password (emailed to you)
Your "username" is your first name, and "password" is the one emailed to you (random series of letters) you can select the password with the mouse and use control c to copy in your email, and control p to paste into the webpage to avoid having to type it out now click on the "remember me" box and it should log in automatically every time you visit the wiki click on the login button If you create a bookmark then everytime you click on "log in" it should be filled in and you should just have to click on log in without worrying what your username/password is. This depends on your Internet browser, it will be in a menu at the top somewhere, in Firefox it is Bookmarks/Bookmark this page, then you choose a name for the website. If it doesn't work contact John, and/or check if your cookies are enabled(!) it will be an option in a menu on your web browser but depends which one you are using. In Firefox it is under Edit/Preferences.
If you have no password (password, what password?!)
Fill your first name into username, or contact John if there are 2 people with the same name click on "mail me a new password"
Log out
When you are logged in, the option to log out will appear at the top right, or just close down the web browser ;-)
My watchlist
Shows changes with user made to pages you are watching. To watch a page click the watch tab when you are reading a particular page.
Preferences
Maybe best to just click on this and use the menus on the left of it to see what you can change. The skin is the design of the page so the webpage can be displayed differently on your computer. You need to confirm your email if you want email notifications. You can set the size of file you can upload. If you go over this limit you get a warning message, but you have the option to ignore and upload anyway!
My Talk
On the top right, click on this to see your messages from other people. To receive emails if you get a message tick: "Send me an email when my user talk page is changed." I discovered I wasn't receiving emails as you have to click on "confirm email" above this to receive any emails.
To send messages to other people go to the list of users by the link on the index menu on the left, here or Special pages/users. These are the user profiles for people to edit themselves (where their contact emails should be). To send a message to their "my talk" click on the discussions tab. See the editing section for how to edit pages.
My contributions
at the top right of the page shows all the edits you have made to the wiki.
Tabs
There are tab menus at the top of the page: article, discussion, edit, history, move and watch.
Edit
The tab edits a whole page complete with menus, the blue edit links in the page edit a small section. If you make a comment please type a line of 4 ~ before it and your name and a timestamp will be added so other people can track changes to the website more easily. Alternatively press the button above, second right with a squiggle on it. --Sarah 09:53, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
You don't need to worry about losing information on the page, the Wiki is backed up every day so at worst 24 hours of edits can be lost, and John says he can probably recover things anyway.
How do I edit a page?
There are 11 buttons just above the edit box, some of which are explained below. You can preview/save changes/show your changes using the buttons at the bottom of the edit box. You can scroll the page up and down to see the box you are editing and the finished page/your changes. To avoid reading the rest of this section...click on edit for a page with something you want to do, and you will see the code used to create that particular effect. If you click on preview you can see the code and the finished webpage on the same page and you can scroll up and down between the two.
To start a new line leave a space after your sentence.
If you don't the text will automatically follow in a line even if you start on the next line when you are editing. Like this.
To see what your changes look like in a web browser click on "show preview" at the bottom of the page, then the changes will be at the top of the page with the box for editing under it. To save changes, click on "Save page."
To show the changes you have made to a page click on "Show changes" at the bottom of the page.
How do I add new menus?
If you click edit on one of the main menus then it will probably make sense. You use the "=" symbol either side of the text you want to have in the menu. There is a hierarchy of menus. One "=" is the biggest menu, you then add two "==" to make the first sub menu, then three "===" to create a sub menu in that. -Menu1- --Submenu-- ---Submenu of submenu--- (now replace - with =, I used - so that it wouldn't work)
Text effects
How do I add a line across the page?
Press the button that looks like a line. When you roll the mouse over it it says "use sparingly!"
Bold or Italic text
Select text and use the buttons that look like a "B" and slopey "I" for bold/italic respectively. Bold and italic Bold has 3 ' either side of the word and italic has 2
Links
External links
I will type out the link that will work on the wiki, with square brackets: to view this click on edit. After this, I will replace [ with ( to show how it is done so that you don't have to edit the page to see how to do it. two ways: 1) You type the link, highlight it and click the button that looks like a globe. It adds [ ] brackets for you. You can also add the brackets yourself. This option gives the link a number and you can't see the URL of the website. [1] replacing [ for ( it is (http://www.test) To change the text in the link use the pipe symbol |(shift and \; it may be next to the z key depending on your keyboard) text, replacing [ with ( it is (http://www.test|your text) 2) Write out the whole URL, e.g. http://www.test you need the "http://" or the link won't work
Internal links to another page on the wiki
2 ways again: 1) Add two square brackets [[ ]] either side of your text 2) Highlight text and click on the button that looks like "Ab" underlined. e.g. Venues replacing [ with (, this is ((Venues)) To add different text your text replacing [ with (, this is ((Venues|your text))
For each page, or section of a page you view in the wiki the URL at the top of the web browser is unique, e.g. to link to the features section of the wiki help, click on the link in the menu, numbered one and the URL will change to http://wiki.ivfdf.ceilidhsoc.org/index.php/Wiki_help#Features_of_the_wiki
The link to the page is given by the end section: Wiki_help#Features_of_the_wiki so you would type the following with square brackets instead of round brackets: ((Wiki_help#Features_of_the_wiki| your text)).
How do I add a picture?
Suggestions for a test picture that isn't the lovely Megan the chicken are welcome! Perhaps a folky photo?!
On the bottom left of the Wiki there is a section called "toolbox." Click on "upload file."
Click the "browse" button and find the file from your computer
choose a filename, you could type out the existing one exactly to avoid confusion,or choose a short filename that you can remember when it comes to typing it in later. Type out the filename, e.g. Chicken.JPG select with the mouse and press the button that looks like a small picture in a frame (middle button). Alternatively type out ((Image:yourfile.JPG)) with [, not (
How do I view all photos uploaded?
Go to Upload file and follow the link, or click on: pictures
Music Notation
Musical notation can be included in a wiki as ABC notation or LatexMusic (as used by Lilypond). Including abc notation for example, is done as follows.
<abc> X:1359 T:2d. Quick Step 30th. Regt. M:2/4 L:1/8 K:D Ad d2|Aee2| f/e/f/g/ ad|cBcA |\ Ad d2|Aee2|(f/e/f/g/) ad|ecd2:: (f/e/f/g/) ad|cBcA| f/e/f/g/ ad|cBcA |\ Ad d2|Aee2|(f/e/f/g/) ad|ecd2:| </abc>
Latex Music is handled in the same way only using <music> </music> instead of <abc> </abc>.
Discussion
This is found on the tab at the top of the page. When you are on a page click on this and you can add comments about the page. See the editing section for more on how to do this. To send a message to someone's "my talk" click on the discussions tab in their user profile (see my talk below).
History
Shows all changes made to the website with user and date.
Watch
If you want to watch changes to a particular page go to the page and click on "watch." You will have to click on Preferences at the top right of the page to be notified of any changes by email. Go to email and tick the appropriate box. Go to "my watchlist" at the top right of the page to see pages that your are watching.Menus on the left
Index
John controls which links appear here; these are internal links to move round the wiki.
Users
Users can edit their own profile to give contact details here. If you click the discussion tab you can send messages to their "My Talk", or send an email via the wiki.
Recent changes
Click her to see recent changes to the wiki, and who has made them.
Toolbox
You can upload files, see the section on pictures. There are lots of useful links on "Special pages."
Send email via wiki
When you are viewing the users page, there is a menu at the bottom left which has options to email that user (giving your email address) and view the changes that user has made to the wiki.
