Course Notes
From LansburyVoices
Contents |
Week 1
- What is a wiki - basic concepts - some examples
- Looking at the Lansbury Voices webspaage
Week 2
- Log on & Registering
- Setting Prefences
- Changing your password
- Email - confirm your email
- How to access a wiki
- Editing saving changes logging changes
- Links - hot links - local links and external links
- Images - an image is an object!
- Uploading images
- Including images in pages
- Links
- Images: shown as thumbnails and in galleries
Week 3
- Looking at how the wiki can support the Lansbury Voices project as a
work shop space for recording project developments.
- The different versions of a document.
- Conflicts in editing.
- Communicating with other users inside the wiki - The Talk Page
- The discussion page
Week 4
- Building an archive
- Links to websites outside.
- Things to do with a wiki and why not to use a wiki.
Links
Every link is of the form [[ something ]] and the page may or may not exists when you create that link.
Uploading images and links to images
To upload an image, select Upload file in the menu on the left hand side of any page. That is under toolbox. The image takes either the name of the file that you have from the camera or other source, by default. Or you can change in on upload to another name, but this name must end with .jpg
Links are of two types: smaller versions on pages or image galleries.
Images on pages
You can include an image on a page. If the image is too big on the screen, you can ask the wiki to create a thumbnail size image, which links to the full size image.
Here are some examples:
[[Image:GJ123.jpg|thumb|right|Gordon Joly]]
[[Image:DSCN8181.jpg|thumb|left|Vicky Coakley]]
As with all links we have these types of brackets: [[ something ]] or if you want to link to a page outside the wiki use single brackets [http://www.bbc.co.uk]
We also specify the thumbnail option, and position the image to the left or right.
Gallery
To create a gallery, just place a list of images between the two markers <gallery> and </gallery>
Here is an example for three images: <gallery> Image:Mark_nights1.jpg Image:Mark_nights2.jpg Image:Mark_nights3.jpg </gallery>
Note that the gallery will display the images in row of four thumbnails.
