How to Create a Wiki Page
--D. Thiebaut 20:33, 1 October 2012 (EDT)
This is a short tutorial on creating Wiki pages. Wiki pages are very simple to create and require understanding a very simple syntax for creating document elements and embedding images or create references. This tutorial gets you started. This is the same system of editing used by Wikipedia. Both Wikipedia and this system of pages (cs.smith.edu/classwiki) use the same software for maintaining these pages.
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Login
To create a page you need an account number and password. One such pair should have been given to you earlier. If not, contact the manager of this wiki system (dthiebaut@smith.edu) for assistance.
- Point your browser to this URL: cs.smith.edu/classwiki
- Click on log in:
- In the login window enter your credentials.
- When your return to the main page, the top right caption should read log out to indicate that you are now logged in.
Creating a New Wiki Page
There are two different ways of creating wiki pages. We'll concentrate on the simplest one now, which happens when a Wiki page contains a link to a page that does not exist yet. When this happens the link appears in red. This is a standard rule with this system of wikis: when something appears in red, it means that it hasn't been created yet and by clicking on it you get to create it.
