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St. Mark’s Green Library Creating LionLinks Wiki Pages Emily Cunningham April 2008

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St. Mark’s Green Library Creating LionLinks Wiki Pages

Emily CunninghamApril 2008

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Intro

This is a brief overview of the process of creating new LionLinks Wiki pages.

This also gives some general guidelines on formatting, as well as tips and tricks.

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Creating a new wiki page

We will create a new page for “National Library Week 2008”

It will include links to ALA materials, embedded files/handouts, and any media we can include

Start from the LionLinks Front Page. http://stmarksgreenlibrary.pbwiki.com/

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Creating a new wiki page

Click “log in” in the upper right-hand corner

Log in with “sarahb” as the password and your initials and email address.

Decide whether to select “notify me of changes”. Only one person at a time may be notified, so if that’s you, select the box.

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Creating a new wiki page The Front Page looks different once

you are logged in. You may now click the tab that reads

“New page” at the top of the page. You may name your page here.

Remember that the page name becomes the URL and pick something simple.

Select “No template”

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You will then see a blank page that looks like a Word document.

This is the page that you may edit. You may want to begin with a

descriptor of the page and a graphic. I usually find a “FAQ” and paste that,

along with the link into the top of the page.

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Sometimes one or both of two errors will display when copying/pasting from a website or document into the wiki.

When asked whether to allow access, click “Allow Access”

When asked whether to clean up a paste from Word, select “Cancel”

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Pasted text often comes in one of several fonts and sizes.

In order to get the page into a uniform font/font size, select all text and choose the drop down menus for font to change the type and size.

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Creating a new wiki page This function in pbwiki may not

succeed in changing the font. In this case, you must use Word to

edit the text. Copy/paste into a blank Word document, make the changes and copy/paste back into your pbwiki page.

The reason for this is complex, but has to do with pbwiki’s WYSIWYG editor and limited text functions.

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Once your font looks nice, you may want to clean up the text you pasted, omitting any line breaks, or code that shows, or anything else you don’t want to display.

You may also want to insert an image

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To insert an image, find the image you would like either on your hard drive or the internet and save/move it to an easy-to-find folder on your computer.

Put your mouse on the wiki page where you would like the picture to go, then click “Insert Image”

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Once prompted by the pop-up window, browse to the location of your image and upload the file.

You may then insert the file into the page at the spot where you left your mouse cursor.

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Creating a new wiki page

If you would also like to embed other media, first get the embed code. We’ll use YouTube as an example

Here is Julie Andrews’ PSA for Library Week 2008

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