Making A New Wiki
So you are ready to make a brand new wiki page? Awesome! Thanks for contributing to the group. This page outlines the process of making a page and some helpful formatting tips. Once you're done with this, checkout Wiki Best Practices to see how to make your wiki page useful for everyone.
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Steps to Make a New Wiki Page
- Assuming you are reading this you are on the wiki page but be sure you login (Note: when you first get an account with the portal, you are given the exact same username and password for the wiki page).
- Go to your browsers url and replace whatever is after
index.php/with whatever you want to name your page noting that underscores will map to spaces.- For example, this page was made by the following edit
http://fluid.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/Making_A_New_Wiki
- For example, this page was made by the following edit
- Assuming you chose a unique title this will take you to a new blank wiki page with a Create button near the top
- Click that create button and then start composing your new wiki in the editing window
- When you are done with this draft (wikis are NEVER done) click the save page button (feel free to put something descriptive in the Summary window at the bottom.
DONE
Formatting
See this Mediawiki cheatsheet and this Mediawiki page for general information about heading structures, making lists, and adding bold, italics, etc.
Some basics:
Headings
Headings are done by surrounding a line with different numbers of =. Note these start at level 2, as level 1 is the heading style of the page title.
Level 2: == Level 2 Header ==
Level 3: === Level 3 Header ===
...
Level 6: ====== Level 6 Header ======
Code Formatting
Code is formatted with HTML tags. For inline code, do
<code> some code </code>
To do larger code blocks, you need the <nowiki> tag with a space leading the start tag. I can't get the formatting to show up correctly here, so go here and scroll up to see the section I'm talking about.
Categories
You can mark a page as being apart of a category. This is done by adding a [[Category: MyCategory]] to the page. See Special:Categories for the categories already in use on the wiki.
Wiki Best Practices
Once you have the basics down, head over to Wiki Best Practices to learn about how to best contribute and maintain the wiki site!
