You must be a PBS list member and an approved wiki user to add pages to the wiki. You have to sign in before you can edit a page or create a new one. Sign in using your name written as a wiki word (two or more words written together without spaces, all capitalized.) eg. YourName
When you are approved, you will be given a password to be used after you sign in.
All of the formatting for the wiki (bold, italics, links, etc.) is done on the edit page. Once a page is saved, the formatting becomes visible, but how you created it is not. So you will be able to see the way to do it, we will override this so you will be able to see examples below normally only seen on an edit page. In the latest version of our wiki there are icons you can use to help you with the formatting above the white box that appears when you click on edit. You can save, preview, make text bold or italicized, link to a page, add a headline, add an embedded image (not to be used in most cases), ignore wiki formatting (useful in cases when you want to add a word that looks like a WikiWord when you do not want turn that word into a page), add a horizontal line, and use search and replace to change text. To do the formatting manually follow the instructions below.
STEP NUMBER ONE
To add a new page, edit a current page you would like to link to your new page. Write a sentence or a phrase describing your new page and then name it. You will need to name it in a way that will signal that it is to become a wiki page.
If the new page name is just ONE WORD, you must enclose the title of your new page within square brackets. For example, for a new page called Genus, you would type [Genus].
If the new page name contains MORE THAN ONE WORD, then there are two ways to create the page. One method is to enclose the words in square brackets, exactly as done in method #1 above. The preferred method is to remove the spaces between the words and string them together, capitalizing the first letter of each word such as StringThemTogetherLikeThis. This is called a wiki word and is automatically recognized by our wiki as a potential new page if that page name doesn't already exist.
STEP NUMBER TWO
After adding the proposed new page in a wiki way, save your work. A question mark will appear behind the name of the potential new wiki page on the saved page.
STEP NUMBER THREE
Click on the question mark, which will bring you to a new screen. Replace Describe (whatever you have named your potential page) with information about your page and save it. The new page is created once you have typed your information and saved it.
The example below takes you through the steps of making a wiki page for yourself.
- Sign in using your name written as a wiki word. eg. YourName
- Enter your password.
- Edit the Contributors page, which is linked to our Home Page.
- Add your name alphabetically as FirstLast or [First Last] followed by a comma. FirstLast is preferred.
- Save your work.
- On the saved Contributors page click on the question mark behind FirstLast
- On the new page replace Describe First Last with information about yourself.
- Save your work.
- The page has now been created and will now appear on the original page, in this case the Contributors page, as a wiki link. Each time you want to link to your page you will need to write your name on an edit page in the way it was written when the page was created. Eg. FirstLast
If you are adding a new genus page, you will need to add it to the Photographs And Information page. It is best to consult Table Additions in this instance, since this one page requires additional instructions. If you are unsure which page to associate your new page with, consult one of the wiki administrators, Mary Sue Ittner or Jay Yourch, for ideas.
If you wish to add a document with complex markup to the Wiki, you might be better off providing a URL to it than trying to add the text of the document in a new wiki page. Html and pdf files can be uploaded to our wiki and linked by adding the url for those documents.
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