Difference between revisions of "Help:Wiki editing"

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This page used to have guidance for headings, lists, and font formatting. They were removed, because the same info is also available in Help:How to edit wikipages and Help:Quick reference for wiki editing.

Tables

Normal table

Normal table or a "pretty table" is table which is used to present facts clearly in a table. These tables don't have any special properties and they can be used only in presenting facts. By pressing Table in the edit screen you can bring out the Table generator, which lets you change the number of rows and columns of the table. By pressing Insert table code the table generator creates the code of the table on the page:

{|{{prettytable}}
! Column title 0
! Column title 1
|-----
| element 0.1
| element 1.1
|-----
| element 0.2
| element 1.2
|}

If you untick PrettyTable-style the table looks like this:

Data table

Datatable is a table which has some special properties. The content of a datatable is stored in the Opasnet Base database, and it can be retrieved from there for modelling and other purposes.

Code:

<t2b  index="index1" Locations="Location0,Location1,Location2" unit="nro">
Location0.1|Location1.1|Location2.1
Location0.2|Location1.2|Location2.2
</t2b>

Links

Links are ment to ease integrating external sources of information to an existing Opasnet page. You don't have to rewrite the page to Opasnet, and it is easy to link the existing information to Opasnet.

Internal links

Internal links guide you to an existing page in Opasnet:

Example: Opasnet user skills

Code:

[[Name of the page]]
e.g. [[Opasnet user skills]]

External links

External links take you to a page which is not a page in Opasnet:

Example: http://www.wikipedia.fi

Code:

 [Page's URL Page's name] or [Page's URL]
 [http://www.wikipedia.fi Wikipedia] or [http://www.wikipedia.com]
 
Wikipedia or [1]

You can also add a link by typing the URL of the page:

e.g. http://www.wikipedia.fi
http://www.wikipedia.fi

Files

You can add different kinds of files into Opasnet to add information or to clarify the message of the page. You can add a file by pressing Embedded file button on the editing screen.

File:Editing example.jpg

[[File:Example.jpg]]

Categories, categorizing

Categorizing eases finding the right pages. You create a cathegory by placing a page to the desired cathegory. By clicking the name of the category at the end of the page you will get to the class-page which lists all the pages of the category. There is also a short description of the cathegory.

[[Category:Name of the Category]]

If the page pelongs to more cathegories than one it should be written like this:

[[Category:Name of the Category]]
[[Category:Name of the Category]]

[[:Category:Name of the Category]] 

is a link to te cathegory which can be placed to the text.

Rating bar

Arvostelupalkki on tärkeä osa artikkelia, sillä sen avulla on helppo havainnoida tai arvostella artikkelin tiedon laatua.

What you should know about editing in Opasnet

1. Introduction to Opasnet
   • purpose and history of Opasnet
   • technical foundation: Mediawiki, same as in Wikipedia
   • openness, transparency, collective knowledge creation/learning
2. Guided tour to structure, content and functionalities of Opasnet
   • browsing, searching and reading Opasnet content
   • structure of Opasnet
     • English (open), Finnish (open), password protected Heande (project use)
   • content: text, styling, tables, images, documents
   • page history (no need to fear making mistakes!)
   • creating a user account / logging in
   • creating a new page
   • page (object) types? → templates
   • categorization
   • ways of contributing to Opasnet
     • commenting (no login required)
     • discussion on talk page (login required)
     • structured argumentation on talk page (login required)
     • editing of the article page (login required)
     • uploads (login required)
   • help & examples
   • edit conflict
     • what is it?
     • how to avoid?
     • what to do if happens?
   • wiki-markup vs. wikiwyg
   • different browsers
   • special pages
3. Practical exercises
   • create a user account for yourself
     • think of a good, descriptive user name for yourself
     • add user information
     • adjust your "my preferences"
   • create a page for the topic you are working on
     • choose a page type?
     • give a good descriptive name for your page
     • categorize your page
     • page structure
     • content?
   • Browsing, searching, commenting, and discussing information in Opasnet
     • find an assessment on "Farmed salmon" in Opasnet and see what it contains and how it is structured
     • find out how many "variables" there are in Opasnet
     • find out what kind of objects "methods" in Opasnet are, find at least one (representative) example
     • find an interesting page in Opasnet and comment on it
       • with the comment box
       • by editing the discussion page