User:2TeachWiki/TrainingPage

Wikipedia Workshop for FIT
This page was created for the Wikipedia Workshop at FIT.

This workshop will focus on learning the basics of Wiki markup, also known as wikitext or wikicode, consists of the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page.

How to Create Your Wikipedia Account
Follow the instructions here on how to create a Wikipedia Account.

Benefits

 * Create your own user page
 * Practice and edit in a Sandbox
 * Communicate with others via talk pages
 * Start new pages
 * Rename pages and upload images
 * View a list of all your contributions (edits)
 * Create a watchlist monitor your changes
 * Edit semi-protected pages
 * Use more advanced editing tools
 * Vote for the Picture of the Year
 * Use VisualEditor

* ''Some features will not be available until an account is autoconfirmed. User accounts that are more than four days old and have made at least 10 edits are considered autoconfirmed.''

How to Navigate - The Tabs
Read, Edit Source, Edit and View History

Types of Pages

 * User pages
 * Articles
 * Project
 * Help

VisualEditor
VisualEditor is checked by default for all accounts. If for some reason it is not active for you follow these instructions to activate VisualEditor

About VisualEditor

VisualEditor gives you the ability to edit without needing to learn wikitext markup, as is required by the default wikitext editor.

VisualEditor is still in development and has known limitations and bugs.

Wikipedia already has a great guide on the VisualEditor - follow it here VisualEditor/User_guide

Wikicode - Traditional Menu
Let's briefly go over the handout for today. Wiki Markup Toolbar Functions

Saving Edits
When you make changes to a page it is important to describe the edits you have made in the "Edit summary" field. This is important to prevent your edits from getting deleted.

You can also check "This is a minor edit" for the following:
 * Spelling and grammatical corrections
 * Simple formatting (e.g., capitalization, punctuation, or properly adding italics to non-English words, like folie des grandeurs, or titles of certain works, like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
 * Formatting that does not change the meaning of the page (e.g., moving a picture, splitting one paragraph into two – where this is not contentious)
 * Fixing layout errors
 * Adding or correcting links
 * Removing obvious vandalism

Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if the edit concerns a single word, and it is improper to mark such an edit as minor.

Templates and Infoboxes
A template is a set of wikicode that is reused by many wikipedia members. Commonly used for infoboxes, navigational boxes and similar purposes.

Example to create an infobox you could.
 * 1) Write out all the wikicode
 * 2) Copy and paste the code from another wikipedia page - then edit the information.
 * 3) Use a Template - templates look like this

For a list of infoboxes go to List of infoboxes

Basic Text Editing
Bold Text Bold Text

Italic Italic

Underline  Underline

strike text strike text

TextSuperscript TextSuperscript

TextSubscript TextSubscript

Font Size
Big Text Big Text

Small Text Small Text

Bigger Text text

Replace N with a percent of the size you would like. Normal text size is 90% type a number less than 90% for smaller text and larger than 90% for bigger text.

Using Color
Template for colored text Your text here

Colored Text Colored Text

Colored Background Text Colored Background Text

Highlighted Text Highlighted Text

You can also use Hex Color Codes Hex Color Codes

Create a swatch by typing for this you must use Hex Color Codes you cannot type a color name

For a smaller color sample type

Changing Text Alignment
You can use the following to change text alignment.

By default text will be left aligned.

To change text to center alignment. Type Centered Text Centered Text

To change text to right alignment. Type Right Text Right Text

Numbered Lists

 * 1) Orange
 * 2) Blue
 * 3) White

Put # in front of each line item - Wikicode will appear as:


 * 1) Orange


 * 1) Blue


 * 1) White


 * 1) Start each line
 * 2) with a #
 * 3) More number signs give deeper
 * 4) and deeper
 * 5) levels.

The above list looks like this in Wikicode


 * 1) Start each line


 * 1) with a #


 * 1) More number signs give deeper


 * 1) and deeper


 * 1) levels.

Bulleted Lists

 * Orange
 * Blue
 * White

Put * (asterisk) in front of each line item - Wikicode will appear as:

* Orange

* Blue

* White


 * Start each line with an *
 * More asterisks give deeper
 * and deeper levels.

The above list looks like this in Wikicode

* Start each line with an *

** More asterisks give deeper

*** and deeper levels.

== Images ==

Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files.

Wikimedia Commons created a guide that takes you through the steps of uploading media and how to use it on Wikipedia. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Illustrating_Wikipedia_brochure.pdf





Picture Gallery
A gallery displays several pictures in an array or similar layout.

Sounds and Music
You follow the same process to add sounds and music as you do for adding an image.

The wikitext looks like this

Pardon

To get the above text I used the Pronunciation Template

Link to a wiki page
Chicken Chicken

Wikipedia Page on Chicken Wikipedia Page on Chicken

Link to an external web page
FIT Website FIT Website



http://www.fitnyc.edu

Tables
Wikitext for tables is

Recommended page for creating more complicated tables Help:Table

Question and Answer Formatting
Question 1

How was the Question and Answer box created? A template of course! They really are helpful tools.

Notes or Footnotes or References
You can title this section whatever you want.

You need to have the text or this is the wikitext that will tell all the Citations you create where to go.