EditingTips

How to start ?

• Edit a Page

by clicking on the Edit this page: Text link at the bottom of this page, (actually, on any page of this site), then you can add content to this page by typing into the box as usual. Leave a blank line to seperate paragraphs. When you finish typing, remember to click "Save" button. You can stop reading now and be sure to try edit some page say PlayPage.

Spend 10 minutes reading [Basic Formatting Rules] below for short and easy tips for controlling the formatting/appearance of your input to this website.

After that, you can go to PlayPage page to practice those basic editing rules. When you reach a stage that you want fancier control of the formatting, you could always go back to this page and continue reading, and maybe TextFormattingRules and TextFormattingExamples gives more comprehensive introduction.

• Restore a Page to a Previous Version

If some previous edits messed up a page, it is easy to restore the page to its previous versions.

Go to the page your want to "fix", click "View other revisions". Select the versions you want to restore the current page to. When you are viewing that revision, click "Edit this page" link and immediately save. Now the selected previous revision is correctly restored.

• Create a New Page

When you are editing some page, put some words between [[ and ]], save the change. You will see the question mark appears near your some words. Click on the question mark and edit the page, save the change. then you create a new page named after some words.

For example

click on the question mark on the right side of me will create a page called "click on the question mark on the right side of me will create a page"

However, character / has a special meaning in page names. TopPageExample, TopPageExample/Subpage1, TopPageExample/Subpage2. Like subdirectory, subpages can be grouped under one top level directory.

• Upload a file

You can upload a file smaller than 1000K (click on the FileUpload link at the bottom of the page, or FileUpload

You can refer to the files you uploaded using Uploads:<filename> in any pages on this site.

For example:

Uploads:DesktopWallPaper.jpg

or type in

http://zu.meltonfoundation.org/wikiupload/DesktopWallPaper.jpg

to see the actual image be included in the resulting page.

• More control over the formatting?

Read on, or jump to TextFormattingExamples, TextFormattingRules

Basic Text Formatting:

Entering text on a wiki can be done simply. Follow these guidelines:

• Carriage returns (ie pressing the Enter key) are significant in formatting a wiki page
• Multiple spaces and tabs are ignored
• Use tags <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i>
• Use tag <tt>for monospace text</tt>
• The first character entered on a line often controls the formatting of the text on that line (shades of Fortran), in brief (see below and sub pages for details):
  • " " space causes text to appear in a monospaced font where spaces are significant
  • ":" colon causes text to be indented
  • "=" equals - followed by a space - creates a heading, a trailing "=" - preceeded by a space - is required
  • "*" asterisk creates a bulleted list
  • "#" hash creates a numbered list
  • ";" semicolon creates a definition list, a ":" colon is required subsequently on the same line
  • "----" four hyphens creates a horizontal line
  • "||" vertical bar creates a table

Repetition of the first character on the line generally increases the indentation or emphasis (in case of =, = is the strongest heading)

• Leave a single blank line between paragraphs.
• Suppress wiki formatting and linking through escaped WikiWiki text -- <nowiki>WikiWiki</nowiki>
• Insert an image using a full URL, eg http://otto.cs.ucsb.edu:8080/~bbs/templates/subSilver/images/logo_phpBB.gif

Suggestions: Good Style

Write factual information. Give concrete advice. Use the second or third person (see "Personal Pronouns" below) when possible as the first person is not easily reduced to facts or advice. Place words where they are easy to read, which isn't always at the bottom. Edit pages to emphasize the flow of ideas, not the chronology of contribution. --- from Wiki:GoodStyle

Editing is a rewording activity. 

NOW Just be brave

click any Edit text of this page you can find, and change it.

To see how any page is formatted, just follow the link "Edit text of this page" at the bottom of the page.

This is a simple sample paragraph. Paragraphs can have line breaks internally. To separate paragraphs, use a blank line.

Here is another paragraph. Note that HTML-special characters like <, >, and & are not special in wiki. (But with recent versions of UseModWiki, special sequences like © work in wiki.)

   Do not indent paragraphs, or your

To create a horizontal line, type 4 or more minus/dash/hyphen (-) characters, like this:

You can link to a page by removing the spaces between two or more words, and starting each word with a capital letter. For instance, WikiName and TextFormattingExamples are samples of page links.

Non-existing pages, like SmashingWordsTogetherExample, will be displayed with a question-mark for a link. The question mark link indicates the page doesn't exist yet--follow the link to create and edit the page.

Another way of linking to a page titled like A Certain Page X is to put [[ and ]] around A Certain Page X when you compose your text. The comments about non-existing pages also applies here.

Inline image:

Inline link: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SandBox

InterWiki link: UseMod:InterWiki points to http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InterWiki. It is a short hand for that long URL.

Sample uses of the "" delimiter:

• Separating an inline link or InterWiki link from adjacent punctuation such as in http://www.usemod.com/, UseMod:UseModWiki, or Wiki:TextFormattingRules.
• Plural forms of page links, like UseModWikis.

To mark text as bold or italic, you can use the HTML <b> and <i> tags. For example:

Sample bold, italic, and bold+italic.

UseModWiki also implements the old "quote style" of text formatting, which is used on several wikis. Briefly:

Two single quotes are italics, three single quotes are bold, five single quotes are bold and italic.

• Text for a bulleted list item.
  • Text for second-level list.
    • Text for third level, etc.
    1. For some reason there is now a way to get a numbered list in deeper levels

1. Text for a numbered list item.
   1. Text for second-level list.
      1. Text for third level, etc.
      2. A second item of the same level get's an incremented number.
      • And we can shift back to bullets if we want to for some reason.

Text to be indented (quote-block)

Text indented more

Text indented to third level

Term

Definition (indented)

Term (indented)

Definition (indented two levels)

Term (indented twice)

Definition (indented to third level)

Pre-formatted section here.  No other link
  or format processing
is done on pre-formatted sections.
For instance, UseModWiki is not a link here.

and:

   This is the starting-spaces version of
   preformatted text.  Note that links like
   UseModWiki still work.

• [nowiki] The nowiki tag allows one to avoid the wiki rules for a part of text. For instance: RecentChanges is not a link here because I used the nowiki tag.
• [backslash] Here is some text on multiple lines, treated as one line because of the backslashes.

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