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Wiki contains many types of pages (HTML). A page is a HTML rendered by Wiki SW using special markup called wikitext. Wiktext controls formatting (Bold, Headings) and Structure (Columns, Tables, Refrence, Table of Contents) . A visual editor is available to help in inserting wikitext. | Wiki contains many types of pages (HTML). A page is a HTML rendered by Wiki SW using special markup called wikitext. Wiktext controls formatting (Bold, Headings) and Structure (Columns, Tables, Refrence, Table of Contents) . A visual editor is available to help in inserting wikitext. | ||
| − | There are different types of pages . | + | There are different types of pages . Pages of a type belong to namespace of that type for search and linking. |
*Article In the default or Main view | *Article In the default or Main view | ||
*User For each user. User can edit these for things they are working on. Users can create subpage ( A1\B1 means B1 is subpage of A1) and talk about projects they are doing | *User For each user. User can edit these for things they are working on. Users can create subpage ( A1\B1 means B1 is subpage of A1) and talk about projects they are doing | ||
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*Portal a special curated landing page for major topics . | *Portal a special curated landing page for major topics . | ||
* Project This is wikipedia namespace in public wikpedia . For IOTWiki the project pages will describe collaboration projects where a group of editors work on improving pages on a topic or create a portal | * Project This is wikipedia namespace in public wikpedia . For IOTWiki the project pages will describe collaboration projects where a group of editors work on improving pages on a topic or create a portal | ||
| + | *UserWiki! This is a special draft namespace. Users can use it for draft artciels and testing stuff out. Once done can move pages Article namespace | ||
=== Links=== | === Links=== | ||
Wiki allows internal links to other wiki pages by title of the page . A special inter-wiki link is available for Wikipedia. the default title link is the pages of Article types of Main namespace. | Wiki allows internal links to other wiki pages by title of the page . A special inter-wiki link is available for Wikipedia. the default title link is the pages of Article types of Main namespace. | ||
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| + | Use the drafts feature under Draft: namespace to start creating drafts and getting a hang of the wiki. See | ||
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| + | IoTWiki should use UsersWiki!: Name space . | ||
Revision as of 06:06, 13 October 2017
A tutorial to help explain and some concepts. <<Needs lot of work>>
WikiPedia
Most comphrehensive intro is this (Dated 2008) one:
Wikipedia:Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual
Others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdoQsFgsOns&list=PLB0168AB327B0FE03&ab_channel=jgrodel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial
MediaWiki
Most documentation is specific to Wikipedia. Our IoTForum Wiki (IoTwiki) is a personal wiki and different. So some search options like WP: and templates will work differently. These can be best researched at MediaWiki ( The SW provider ) website
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
Community
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_hub
FAQ
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ
WikiText
Simpler approach to HTML and used by the Wiki Software to format, structure and include standard stuff See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheatsheet-en.png
Pages
Wiki contains many types of pages (HTML). A page is a HTML rendered by Wiki SW using special markup called wikitext. Wiktext controls formatting (Bold, Headings) and Structure (Columns, Tables, Refrence, Table of Contents) . A visual editor is available to help in inserting wikitext. There are different types of pages . Pages of a type belong to namespace of that type for search and linking.
- Article In the default or Main view
- User For each user. User can edit these for things they are working on. Users can create subpage ( A1\B1 means B1 is subpage of A1) and talk about projects they are doing
- Special This is a dynamic view or query on different things...like Pages recently added, deleted or needing review
- Template Reusable "Source" code to be injected into a page being edited. Can be parameterized. Templates for flagging stubs articles and needing review are available. Skilled usage of templates markes a good Wiki contributer
- Help Help on various topics and How To
- Category A set of pages defining a knowledge tree for discovery and browsing of related pages by topics. A page can be in multiple category. Generally you should link a Article to the lowest node in the category tree. Wiki dynamically will create a view listing all pages in a node of the tree. You can control sorting by directives using wikitext on the Source page
- Portal a special curated landing page for major topics .
- Project This is wikipedia namespace in public wikpedia . For IOTWiki the project pages will describe collaboration projects where a group of editors work on improving pages on a topic or create a portal
- UserWiki! This is a special draft namespace. Users can use it for draft artciels and testing stuff out. Once done can move pages Article namespace
Links
Wiki allows internal links to other wiki pages by title of the page . A special inter-wiki link is available for Wikipedia. the default title link is the pages of Article types of Main namespace. Other types of pages can be reached by prefixing the namespace such as :Category: or :User: or UserWiki!:
Experiment and Start working
Use the drafts feature under Draft: namespace to start creating drafts and getting a hang of the wiki. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts
IoTWiki should use UsersWiki!: Name space .
