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Contents 1 Learning to edit the Wiki 1.1 Elementary steps: 1.2 Further steps: 2 Setting Up Our Teams / Brainstorming Research Directions 3 Next Steps (for Class 6)

Learning to edit the Wiki

Elementary steps:

1. Log-in to the class wiki
2. Go to Tech Help and read MediaWiki Editing Overview
3. Go to Wiki test page (Wikipedia "Sandbox")
   • Edit something ("summarize" your changes; "preview" before saving)
     • Use some text formatting--for example, italics, bold
   • Create a section on a page
   • Create a list on a page
   • Create a link (note that the format of a link in MediaWiki is different depending on whether you are linking to a page inside the same wiki or an "external link" elsewhere on the Web)
4. Read Starting a New Page; then go to the Wiki test page and see if you can figure out how to create a new page

Further steps:

1. Sign/date your pages with four tildes ~~~~
2. Link to a section of a page--e.g., Class 8 on our schedule
3. Create an anchor in a page for a link: <span id="exampleanchor"></span>. Then link to it--e.g., jump to anchor on another page
4. Put an image on a page (and position it)

Also: Hands-on workshop after class today in the Transcriptions Studio (South Hall 2509) with Kim Knight

Alan Liu 14:21, 13 April 2006 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Setting Up Our Teams / Brainstorming Research Directions

(see Shared Collaboration Space)

Next Steps (for Class 6)

• Talk to each other
• Do initial "brainstorming" research (e.g., Google, Melvyl)
• Add/revise research directions for your team on the Shared Collaboration Space page
• Add possible Glossary and Objects items on the Shared Collaboration Space page