You must be a PBS list member and an approved wiki user in order to edit wiki pages. 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 as explained in Adding Pages. To edit any page click on the Edit Text link at the bottom of every page. This page describes how to type information on a page so it will look formatted. It covers how to do headings, make words bold or italicized, add lines, create spaces, etc. There are examples to illustrate these points. After you have read through it, click on edit so you can see how the examples were done and this will help you understand.
- You make italics by placing an underscore on each side of a word or phrase.
Example: Brodiaea elegans - You make bold text by using an asterisk on each side of a word or phrase.
Example: Pacific Bulb Society - To get bold italics, nest asterisks inside a pair of underscores or underscores inside a pair of asterisks.
Example: Wachendorfia thyrsiflora or Acis nicaeensis - You make bullets by using a plus (+) or an asterisk (*) at the start of the line.
You can add a blank line to separate text by just leaving a blank line. Example:
I left a blank line.
- What ever is typed after three percentage symbols (%) will appear on the next line. Example: Information about a picture including the name of the photographer followed by
url of plant You can make a horizontal line to divide a section with four or more minus signs like this:
- Indent paragraphs or lines by using white space. Headings below were indented with white spaces (one or two spaces).
One exclamation mark at the start of a line makes a small heading.
Pacific Bulb Society
Two exclamation marks at the start of a line makes a medium heading.
Pacific Bulb Society
Three exclamation marks at the start of a line makes a major heading.
Pacific Bulb Society
- To link to pages outside the Wiki, you can just type in the URL and Wiki will link it for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/ - You can name the links by providing a name, a pipe symbol (|) and then the hyperlink or pagename and enclosing all of this in brackets. Example: [link name | hyperlink]. Pacific Bulb Society wiki
You can make a thumbnail by providing a hyperlink to an image file, a pipe symbol (|), the text you would like displayed when the mouse pointer is over the thumbnail, enclosing all of this in brackets, prefixing it with 'T' or 't'. Example: T[hyperlink | mouseOverText]
- Setting the mouseOverText to 'none' displays nothing.
- Setting the mouseOverText to 'default' displays the hyperlink.
Omitting the pipe symbol and mouseOverText displays the hyperlink (see 'default' above).
Example: T[hyperlink]
Supplying both hyperlink and mouseOverText without prefix 'T' also works.
Example: [hyperlink | mouseOverText]- Before saving what you have edited you can check how it looks by clicking on the Preview box. If it does not look like you want it to look, you can change it until it does.
- Always click on the Save box when you have finished your work.
For more detailed information about other editing tips see Text Formatting Rules
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