Wiki Instructions

Contents 1 Updates/Announcements about the Wiki 2 Writing/Editing 3 Adding Images 4 Adding Video 5 Adding Maps 6 References

Updates/Announcements about the Wiki

Re: Haroon's question about a References page: The extension that allows you to create footnotes in this wiki does not have an endnote feature-- so this means that the footnotes will appear on the bottom of the page. If you wanted to have a separate References page, you could do this via internal links or by just manually listing the bibliographic information. I really recommend you do footnotes, however, as they are more accessible to the reader than endnotes.

Re: centering and right-aligning video/maps: The default location for everything is left-aligned. I centered and right-aligned a video and a map below so you can click on "edit" and copy the code there. To center, you basically just surround the code with

<center> </center>

To right-align, use the same logic and surround the code with:

<div style="text-align: right;"></div>

Audio: in progress-- I'll let you know once this feature is enabled.

Writing/Editing

Remember, to create a new page, you enter the title for the page in the Search window in the left-hand column. If there is no page with that title, you'll get a message that the page does not exist and you will have the option to create the page.

You can go to my my user page for an example of bold text, italicized text, internal and external links, and other basic features. If you click on the "edit" tab, you will be able to see the code that was necessary to make certain edits. Remember that if you have created multiple pages, you need to create internal links that connect them to one another.

Citations:

There are two steps for footnotes. First, you need to put reference tags around the citation information in the place where you want the footnote number to go. The references tags look like this:

<ref>here you put the citation information.</ref>

Then, at the bottom of the page, you need to make a heading for "Notes" or "References" and place the references code underneath the heading so that the wiki knows where to put the citation information. Make a section heading by putting two equal signs on either side of "References." Underneath, paste the code, so that the wiki knows to format the citation information as footnotes:

<references/>

I am going to put a footnote at the end of this paragraph. You will just see a number 1-- if you go to the bottom of this page, you will see the citation information. If you click on the "edit" tab, you will see the code I needed to add to make this happen, both here with the citation and at the bottom for the References section. ^[1]

For more instructions footnotes,see this tutorial.

And, here is another footnote, so you can see what it looks like when there is more than one. ^[2]

Adding Images

To add images, you must first upload the image to the wiki. Select "Upload file" in the left-hand column. Upload the file and name it (in the destination filename space). Go to the "edit" option on your wiki page, and click on the image tab (it looks like a picture frame). Then, enter in the relevant information. See below examples to move images to left or right.

You can create a thumbnail which allows you to put text under an image, like a caption. Here are two examples:

Adding Video

I'm going to borrow from the wiki created by my friend and fellow ITF, Craig Willse. He and I are fans of Liz Lemon:

To embed video in our wiki, click "edit" for this page to see the code, which looks like this:

<videoflash>AzusuXSj8Y0</videoflash>

As you can see, it's very simple. The letter-numbers string in the middle of the code is the ID of the video from Youtube. The extension is set to Youtube by default.

If you are embedding a Google video, the code should be:

<videoflash type="googlevideo">1811233136844420765</videoflash>

To center a video, you surround the code with

<center> and </center>

Click on "edit" if you want to see the code that I used to center this video:

To right-align a video, you surround the code with

<div style="text-align: right;"> and </div>

Click on "edit" to see the code for this:

Adding Maps

PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE NEW INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAPS; THE PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS WERE INCOMPATIBLE WITH OTHER FEATURES OF THE WIKI-- SPECIFICALLY THE CITATION FUNCTION-- SO PLEASE FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS INSTEAD.

To embed a map, you will first create a map in googlemaps and then import the code into the wiki. To do this, go to googlemaps (located at http://maps.google.com). If you want to be able to save your map in googlemaps, you'll need to sign in to your account and select "My Maps." Enter in the address or area that you want to map. When the map comes up, you can click on the "Link" button in the upper right heading, right above the map. Copy all the text in the lower part of the window (HTML to embed in website). Now, paste the html code on your wiki page, between html tags:

<html></html>

So, it will look like this:

<html>and then here insert whatever you copied from googlemaps and then</html>

This is how I generated the following map--You can click on the "edit" tab to see the code:

View Larger Map

To center a map, use the same center code as above in the instructions for "video." Click on the "edit" settings to see the code for the centered map below:

<
View Larger Map

To right-align a map, use the same code as above for "video." Click on the "edit" settings to see what the code looks like:

References

1. ↑ This is just an example footnote
2. ↑ This is a second example footnote.