Wiki Tips: Difference between revisions

<p>What do you do when you have covered up the edit this page box and you can't get back in to correct the page? You have edit tab at the very top of the page next to talk and history.

</p><p>If you cover up the save button at the bottom of the page, Click the History tab the top of the page and do a "updo."

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<p>Here is another way to find where coding problems might exist in an article. Type the coding comment tags <!-- -->at the beginning and end of the problem article like so: <!-- article -->.  

</p><p>When you save the page, the page will be blank, but do not panic the coding is still there. Next move the opening comment <span class="fck_mw_nowiki" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="nowiki">&lt;!-- tag</span> down the page to maybe the next paragraph and then save. The material above the <span class="fck_mw_nowiki" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="nowiki">&lt;!--</span> will appear again.  

</p><p>You now know where the problem is. After you have fixed the problem, be sure to remove the comment tags.

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<p>HOT Keys

Having a hard time being able to place your curer in the exact spot to highlight something for copying and pasting? Try this.

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<p>More Hot Keys:

Ever closed a tab by mistake? It is a pain to have to reopen and find the place you left off. Take heart. Hit the Ctrl and Shift key along with the letter "t" and it will magically reappear again.

</p><p>Have you deleted something in the wiki and realized that was a mistake? Take heart again. Hit the Ctrl key along with the letter "z" key and it too, will magically reappear.

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<p>More on Hot Keys:

Want to magnify the screen you are looking at? Instead of looking for the three lines in the upper right hand corner of the tool bar and clicking on it and then clicking of the percentage of magnification, just hold down the Ctrl key and tap the + plus sign key above the = sign. It will enlarge itself. If you want to reduce it, hold down the Ctrl key and tap the - sign next to the 0 key. It will then reduce in size.

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In the last contributor meeting, Jane Colmenares said that missing <div> tags were “vain of her existence.” She was referring to the difficulty of finding missing <div> or </div> tags in articles that can really mess up page. It might be for you as well. You can use Ctr F to find all the div tags but it will not help you find matching pairs opening and closing <div> tags.

<p>Here is a suggestion to try that might help you find them a little easier:

Next, download the page in Wikitext code you are having problems with between the &lt;body&gt; tags . Then, highlight the <div> you think might have a missing </div> tag. If it’s counterpart exists, you will notice that the it will be highlighted at the same time. If it counterpart is way down the page you may have to scroll down the page to find it.

If you don’t find one, that is the <div> tag that is missing its </div>. The same procedure can be used for all tags.  

<p>Footnotes:

Is there a section of an article that you think needs more explanation but do not want to make the section longer? Maybe the explanation would be useful for the new patron, but not the seasoned patron. You can solve this dilemma by creating a footnote. The patron then can click on the footnote icon and go to it.  

</p><p>Footnotes are created by using <span class="fck_mw_nowiki" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="nowiki">&lt;ref&gt; tages like so: &lt;ref&gt;</span>Additional information&lt;/ref&gt;. Place this coding following the place in the sentence or elsewhere where you want to link to the footnote. Then where you want the footnote to appear, install this template: <span class="fck_mw_nowiki" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="nowiki">{{reflist}}</span>. Footnotes are very useful particular for the new patron. Use them freely.

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<p>Ever wonder when you are searching on a topic that you get talk pages in the list of responses? Maybe you would like to have items show that do not. Check out your Preferences. See what items you actually have checked to show when you are searching.  

To get to your preferences, go to your “Personal tools and choose “Preferences.” Then click on “Search options.” The first thing you see on the preference page is Display options. If you want to see more hits per page change it.  

But under “Advanced options” is where you see what namespaces are displayed when you are searching for information. You can check them all, but maybe you don’t want to see talk pages. If talk pages are check, uncheck them. If you want to see Policy pages, check that. Anyway here is where you can pick and choose what items you want to see when searching the Wiki.

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<p>Tabs on your browser are nice but they have a problem. If you are trying to follow instructions or paraphrase one article while editing another, going back and forth via the tabs is a pain. If you’re like me you have forgotten what you read by the time the other page comes up.

</p><p>You may already do this but if not try this: split your screen to display both pages at the same time. Call up your browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) TWICE and then reduce the size of each image to half the screen and display them side by side. That way you can work on one article while referring to the other at the same time. You can even reduce the width of one article to hide the sidebars, for example, to just include the material you need to refer too, while increasing the size of the other you may be editing.

</p><p>Alone with this I would encourage you all to have multiple monitors. You can get them used in computer repair shops very cheap. Generally, if all you have is a single video card in your computer, it will handle two monitors. If you want more than two monitors like I have, you may have to add an additional video card, but video cards are not expensive either. Besides it is impressive to your friends who may think you cannot walk and chew gum at the same time.  

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<p>Have you ever tried to paste some material into the wiki or yammer that was created in Word or some other word processing program only to find that the enlarged text, for example, was still large when you were pasting the material? This is very often the case when pasting material from the internet.

</p><p>To get rid of the formating, first paste it into Notepad++. Notepad++ will remove all the coding and leave only the text . Just paste the material you want to put in the wiki or yammer on a blank Notepad++ page. Then copy and paste that converted material into the article or on yammer.

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<p>Image Approval.

Wondering how to find out if an image is ok to use in our Wiki? Here’s a tip from James Tanner, when you find an image in Google images, click on Search Tools in the tool bar at the top of the page. Then click on “Usage rights” then on “Labeled for reuse.” The images that are left should be ok to use and normally do not have any restrictions on them. We should try to use only images without restrictions.

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