How to edit this wiki

Wikdot handbook

• Quickstart guide (original Start page)
• Handbook: for beginners
• Documentation and help pages: includes video tutorials, wiki syntax, and advanced reference criteria.
• Wikidot video tutorial (more videos)

Some general notes

• Don't go too fast with your coding, esp. if you press Enter. Our server is in Poland, so sometimes it takes a millisecond or two to go there, come back and be ready for the next command. Sometimes it comes back half a line from where you expect it to be… zut alors.
• Some codes appear automatically (for example, if you are doing a list and press Enter, the next line assumes it's a bullet too). Delete the automatic code if you don't want it, or press Enter a second time.
• Save frequently.
• For titles, we use Sentence style capitalisation, not Winnie-The-Pooh Style Capitalisation (it has another name, but I forget what it is…)

Procedures

Remember: You can see all the codes on this page (or any other) by clicking Edit.

Create a new page

There are simpler ways of doing this. This method, however, ensures that the link exactly matches the new page you create.

1. Open the page from which you want the new page to be accessible.
2. Create the Page Link (see below). Copy the exact text, you will need it in a minute.
3. Save the page.
4. Click on the new link.
5. Click the "Create page?" link to confirm that you want to create the page.
6. In the "Title of Page" box, type the exact text you used for the Page Link.
7. In the large box, type or paste your text and add the formatting.
8. Save the page.
9. Set the parent page. This makes a "breadcrumb" trail (exactly like the one at the top of this page).
10. Create the page tags, which appear in the tag cloud to the left of the screen (larger ones are used more often).
    1. Click Tags and type in the page tag (separated by a space).
    2. If you type incorrectly a new tag will appear. (For example how-to how to will create three different tags.)
11. If you want a back up
    1. Copy all the coding to a Word doc.
    2. Save it with the filename the same as the page identifier (that is, name it "howto", not "How to do things on our wiki").
    3. You can save it on the g:/ drive in G:\CHIS\Web 2_0\CHIS wiki\Coding for templates.

To add a graphic to a page

See the page of this wiki called Images and coding.
We generally use it for symbol purposes:

• indicates Canadian material
• indicates French-language material
• indicates a book that can be borrowed by patrons living outside of the Greater Toronto Area. Ask your local library to call us at 1-800-667-1999 to arrange for an Inter-Library-Loan.

Coding

What follows are sample codes for common tasks. There are others, but they don't come up often.
You can see all the codes on this page (or any other) by clicking Edit.

Heading 1 code is "+ text" (plus sign, space, text of heading)

Heading 2 code is "++ text" (2 plus signs, space, text of heading)

Heading 3 code is "+++ text" (3 plus signs, space, text of heading)

Heading 4 code is "++++ text" (4 plus signs, space, text of heading)

Heading 5 code is "+++++ text" (5 plus signs, space, text of heading)

Heading 6 code is "++++++ text" (6 plus signs, space, text of heading)

Bullets

• bullet coding is "* text" (no space asterisk text)
  • bullet coding is " * text" (space asterisk text)
    • bullet coding is " * text" (space space asterisk text)

1. numbered bullet coding is "# text" (no space pound text)
   1. numbered bullet coding is " # text" (space pound text)
      1. numbered bullet coding is " # text" (space space pound text)

Other codes

bold coding is "*text*" (an asterisk around text, no space)
italic coding is "text" (2 slashes // around text, no space)
underline coding is "text" (2 underscores __ around text, no space)
To make a line the code is "--" (six or more hyphens)

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Links

There are two main types of links.

Page links (links to this wiki)

Page links are also called "internal links". They link to a page on this wiki. For example About CHIS is a page link.

If you link to a page on this wiki make sure you use an internal link. If you do, it will be easier to move the wiki to the new platform, once TPL decides which one to use. If you do not, you will have to manually change each internal link to the new URL.

To identify each page on our wiki, we use the name at the top of the page. For example, this page is "howto" (look at the address bar in the browser, above).
The coding is:

• three left-square-brackets [
• name-at-top-of-screen (for example, look in the address bar at the top of this screen, this page name is "howto"
• Pipeline | (this is the key on top of the Enter key and below the backspace. Press Shift and then the key)
• Text you want to appear for link
• three right square-brackets ]
• That is: About CHIS

Press edit and look at this example to see the code: About CHIS

Website links (links to pages outside this wiki)

URL links are also called "external links". They link to a page or a website that does not belong to this wiki, and can be of two types:

Open link in same window (DO NOT USE)

• This type of link is simple to make — just type the URL.
  • The coding is the website address, but don't forget the "http://".
  • For example, http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca is an external link that will open in this window. DO NOT USE this type of link because we want all external links to appear in a new window.

Open link in new window: This is the type of external link we use on this wiki.

• The convention we follow is for the title to appear as the link text, for example Toronto Public Library.
• The coding is (without the spaces) "[ * http://URLgoesHERE Text you want to appear for link ] ".
• Make sure the coding (esp. the URL) contains no extra spaces (a space indicates that the URL is finished and the text you want to appear begins.
  • "[" tells you are creating a link
  • "*" tells it to open the URL in a new window
  • "]" tells it the text you want to appear ends
  • That is: Toronto Public Library