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I know a lot of you are going to want to know how to do some of the basic formating, like Bold and Italic. You can hyperjump to this page WikiTextRules to see how its done.
Overview
For a good overview of WikiWays you can go to this page OneMinuteWiki
If you want to practice, you can go to the Practice Page! and just type a short message to get started.
Searching
Please visit OSU Wiki:Searching for more information.
Editing a Page
- How Do I Edit?
- At the top of every page there should be a Tab that reads edit. When you click this Tab you will be prompted to login. You use your ONID account to access the Wiki.
More Editing Help
To get all the various codes for page editing, goto the wikipedia How To Page
Text Formatting and Grammar
If you need some pointers on grammar, the OWL site is a good place to look. Remember to use good basic text formatting and grammar when editing pages, of course there will always be mistakes, and hopefully someone else will come along and make corrections. This is the beauty of the Wiki.
Adding Images or Pictures
It is useful to be able to add pictures to a wiki. All you need to do is upload the file (look directly on the left side of your screen in the toolbox section) and add the file where you'd like it. Pictures can make a wiki page more dynamic and interesting!
NameSpaces
MediaWiki has several types of Namespaces. These are the "page types" where the editing is done. The basic namespaces are:
- Main or Article
- Portal
- User
- Template
ALong with the basic namespaces, there are also some special ones, like talk and virtual.
Talk NameSpace
The talk namespace is a special space that is associated with each user's name. When you click on the history tab, you will see user-names followed by the word talk. If you click on talk, you will be taken to that users talk page. If the page does not exist, you will be prompted to edit the page. This is the place where you can leave messages for users. Once a message is left, that user will see a box saying "You have new messages" on every page that they view until they visit their talk page. This is a good way to communicate with other class members.
ONID
If you cannot get your ONID id to work, or if you are having login problems, contact the OSU Help Desk
