First Edit
Every page that is editable will have a link along the top of the main content area that says "edit". Pages that are locked for editing will be substituted with a "View source" tab.
A wiki page has two modes:
- The published mode - the view you are looking at right now
- The editing mode - which you use when editing text on the wiki
The ideal choice for your first edit will be your own user page. In logged in status your name will be displayed on the top of the page. Click on your name to get your page which will be blank initially.
Activities
- Log in to colwiki first
- Click on your user name that appear on top of colwiki page.
- In the text box that appears type something about yourself – your name, your organization, and you may want to say something about your reasons for wanting to contribute to WikiEducator etc.
- After you have entered some text notice that underneath the box in which you were entering text there is a series of buttons.
- The Show Preview button is useful to get a quick look at what your page will look like before it is actually saved.
- Hitting the Save page button will save your page on WikiEducator and put your page back into View mode.
See the picture below:
Thus you have successfully done your first edit on colwiki. Now we have to practice more edit features.
Your practice page
In wiki, practice pages of users are generally named as My sandbox. Now how to create a new page called My sandbox ? Try the following.
Activity
- Click on the edit link on top of your page. Now you will get your page in edit mode.
- Now click below the content on the page and type the wiki markup [[/My sandbox/]] and save the page.
- Now you can see a link My sandbox in red colour on your user page. Click on the red link to get your My sandbox page on edit mode (Red colour indicates that the page is black. Once you add content on the page the link will turn blue).
- Add some text on the page and save to see the result.
Thus you have learnt your first wiki syntax to open a new page called My sandbox linked from your user page. We will learn more about linking and new page creation shortly. Till then open new pages using [[/page name/]] markup, that is, two opening squire brackets- one forward slash-your desired page name-one forward slash-two closing squire brackets, either from your My sandbox page or from your User page only.
More Basic Editing Features
| Item
| What you type
| What you get
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| bold text
| '''this is bold'''
(3 apostrophes before and after the text)
| this is bold
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| Italic text
| ''this is Italic''
(2 apostrophes before and after the text)
| this is Italic
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| bold and Italic text
| '''''this is bold and Italic '''''
(5 apostrophes before and after the text)
| this is bold and Italic
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| Numbered lists
| #list item 1
#list item 2
#List item 3
##List item 3A
##List item 3B''
#Second list
(start every line with 1 hash #symbol. Two symbols ## will give second level numbering and 3 third level and so on. A new line marks the end of the list)
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- list item 1
- list item 2
- List item 3
- List item 3A
- List item 3B
- Second list
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| Unordered lists (Bullet list)
| *list item 1
*list item 2
*List item 3
**List item 3A
**List item 3B''
(Start every line with a star. Two symbols ** will give second level numbering and 3 third level and so on. )
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- list item 1
- list item 2
- List item 3
- List item 3A
- List item 3B
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| Indents
| : One indent
:: Two indents
::: Three indents
(start a new line with a colon :symbol for getting one indent. Two symbols :: will give two indents and 3 will give three and so on.)
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- One indent
- Two indents
- Three indents
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| Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them
| =First level heading=
==Second level heading==
===Third level heading===
(Start a new line with a equals sign ( = )and type your section name/heading and put another = sign immediately after the section name. This will give you a first level heading Two signs == will give second level heading and 3 third level and so on. When you put a lower level heading immediately after a higher level it will be taken as the sub heading for the immediate higher level above )
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First level heading
Second level heading
Third level heading
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