Editing the Wiki

Trainees and staff are expected to edit this Wiki as they use it. Here is an important resource: The Wiki User Manual

Basics

From this point on, experiment with editing pages. To edit you need to login. Login codes are you know where. Once you login, click "edit this page" (at the top left) to edit pages. Edit for things like typos or bad content; try to improve the Wiki for the next trainee. We do not expect you to know everything to edit, just the obvious things that strike you as out of date, typos, formatting problems, etc.

Editing the Wiki takes a little practice, patience, and exploration. Fear not! You can use "versions" (on the left) to go back if you mess anything up. Play. Try. Click. There's also a manual for stuff that may be more advanced, like creating a new page.

Here's a trick too: If you Copy and Paste things in "Edit" view they will take their links and such with them, so you can just modify a link instead of having to make one from scratch.

(Text pasted from the web, a PDF, or a word document might not look right, even if you click on "verdana" and "14" in font type and size. You may need to retype the text in this situation or copy first to the Notepad program and paste from there to the Wiki editor.)

Copying Text From a Word Document: First, copy and paste from Word into Notepad or another text editor to strip any extra code/information that might confuse the Wiki. Copy from text editor to paste into Wiki.

Uploading Images See Images - Capturing, Editing, Storing. Be sure to compress images to under 300KB before uploading to the Wiki server.

Uploading images is now different:

1. In editing mode, click "upload an image or a file" on the left of the editing screen. (Important: Make sure you don't have any unsaved edits on your editing page, or you will lose them!!)
2. Click "Browse" to find the file on your computer.
3. Click "Upload."
4. Click "see files on server." This will display the images in alphabetical order on the left side of the screen. Scroll to find yours.
5. Drag your image into the editing box. From here, you can resize or move as needed.

Helpful hint - ignore the "You have used up your allowed image space on the server" message above the editing frame, apparently this is a bug in Seedwiki and it doesn't currently apply to us.

1. Go to 'edit page' to edit the page you want to change the name of; change name and save changes
2. Type in "name of new page" in the square brackets (example: 'Editing the Wiki' vs. 'Wiki editing') in its correct alphabetized order on the main Wiki list and save changes
3. Once the new page is typed into the main Wiki list a question mark will appear; this is a link to a new blank page
4. Click on the question mark to open the new blank page, and then copy all info from the old page ('Wiki Editing') to this new page ('Editing the Wiki'); save changes
5. Go to the Wiki homepage in the edit mode and delete the old page from the list; save changes
6. Ta-da! Now you have successfully renamed a page on the Wiki!