User:ThomasStCatherine/sandbox

1Fun With Wiki Markup

This activity is designed to get you used to the formatting used in Wikipedia. I have adopted this exercise from the Wikipedia Workshop Sample Exercises Page.

2Adding text
 * Type what you had for lunch here: leftover pea soup
 * Type an edit summary (added what I ate for lunch)
 * Click “Show Preview”
 * If everything looks good, click “Save Page”

3Bold/Italics

Make text bold by adding three apostrophes before and after the word(s). Make text italic by two apostrophes around the word(s). Make this whole sentence bold.  Make this sentence italic. :: Use the toolbar to make this sentence bold and italic.Italic text To do so, highlight the sentence click the “B”, then highlight it again and click “i”  You should have five apostrophes around it. Show preview, save page.

4Indenting


 * Put two colons before the first sentence in each paragraph to indent it. ::Show preview, save page.

5Linking:

5a Article links

You can link to other Wikipedia articles. This is helpful to add context to aid in understanding an article in even greater depth. Let us practice linking to other Wikipedia articles now. Some things you should consider linking to are events, people, organizations, schools of thought, anything that you think a reader might want to investigate further.

Here is a paragraph from a Wikipedia entry on Kurt Vonnegut:

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical liberal intellectual. As for ethics he was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.

Choose a word that you think is appropriate to link to. Search Wikipedia in another tab to make sure an article for that term exists. Highlight the word you want to link and click the chain link symbol, make sure the word appears in the target page and word to display boxes and make sure the “to a wikipage” is selected at the bottom. Show preview, save page.

5b External links

Now in the paragraph about Kurt Vonnegut above, please link to the external link for the American Humanist Association. First find the link on the web. Highlight American Humanist Association in the text above, click the link icon, change the bottom to link to an external web page and copy and paste the URL in the first box. This time, make sure that "to an external web page" is chosen at the bottom. Show preview, save page.

6Headings and Subheadings

To create headings put two equal signs around the heading. Create headings for all sections of this document that have a number before it (there are eight). Erase the numbers as you go. To create a subheading put three equal signs around the subheading. Create subheadings around 5a and 5b. Show preview, save page. Notice that, if you have more than four headings a table of contents is automatically created.

7Citing Sources

Citing sources is extremely important because un-cited material is subject to removal! As I mentioned in the beginning of this activity, I have adapted this exercise from one that I found on a Wikipedia Workshop page. I better cite this!

There are multiple ways to cite things on Wikipedia, but for now we’re going to learn it using the templates available in your sandbox. Place your cursor after the sentence/word you want to cite (in this case after the sentence, “I have adopted this exercise from the Wikipedia Workshop Sample Exercises Page.” Scroll down so you can see the information listed below (you will have to enter it). Click cite, choose web from the templates dropdown menu and enter the relevant information below:

Title: Wikipedia Workshop/Sample Exercises Work: Wikipedia URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Sample_exercises (copy and paste the title in another tab to get the url without closing your cite window) Access Date (click the calendar to insert current date) Under Ref name enter an identifying term for this source, example: Wikipedia Workshop

Click insert

Now under your references heading below enter {{ around the word “reflist”

The reference should automatically fill in

If you want to cite this source again, place your cursor in the appropriate place and then click the clipboard next to named refs and choose from the drop down, “Wikipedia Workshop”

8References