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Welcome to Wiki Training <br>Lesson Five<br>I. Review previous lessons<br>A. Please answer the following questions. Feel free to go into the Wiki to find the answers.<br>1) What is the purpose of a talk page?<br>2) Why should you set up your user page?<br>3) What is the purpose of the sandbox?<br>4) How many sandboxes can you create?<br>5) What are two things you would find on your personal tools tab?<br>6) What are two things you can do on your “my preferences” page? <br>7) Where can you store links to pages you use frequently or are working on?<br>8) Where would you go to ask to be notified when a change has been made to a page you are watching?<br>9) What is the ribbon on the right hand said of the page called?<br>10) Where would you find the list of categories under Wiki Tools?<br>B. Please look at the last page to find answers to these questions. Be sure to review any topics you did not know. <br>II. Making changes or corrections to Wiki pages.<br>A. Wiki pages are added and maintained by volunteers and missionaries. When you see a misspelled work, a typing error, or wrong information, you can easily make the corrections. First you need to learn just a few things to help you understand how to edit wiki pages.<br>1) External links – This are links to pages outside of the Wiki. When you see a link followed by a double arrow, it indicates the link is to a site outside of the Wiki. For example it might be an official State website. <br>2) If there is not a double arrow, the link will take you to a site within the wiki. For example, it might be a list of tips for searching online indexes, which has been added by a Wiki contributor.<br>B. On each page and at the top of each topic, there is a place where you can indicate you want to do an edit.<br>1) You will see at the top right of each page. When you click on that link, it will put the entire page into edit mode. <br>2) Usually the best way to do a simple edit is to put just the section you are working on in edit mode. To do this, you will want to click on the , which is found in the upper right hand corner of each new section. When you hover over the link, you will see the word “edit” appear. When you click on the link, it will put that section in edit mode. <br>a) Let’s say you see this typing error on a page: | Welcome to Wiki Training <br>Lesson Five<br>I. Review previous lessons<br>A. Please answer the following questions. Feel free to go into the Wiki to find the answers.<br>1) What is the purpose of a talk page?<br>2) Why should you set up your user page?<br>3) What is the purpose of the sandbox?<br>4) How many sandboxes can you create?<br>5) What are two things you would find on your personal tools tab?<br>6) What are two things you can do on your “my preferences” page? <br>7) Where can you store links to pages you use frequently or are working on?<br>8) Where would you go to ask to be notified when a change has been made to a page you are watching?<br>9) What is the ribbon on the right hand said of the page called?<br>10) Where would you find the list of categories under Wiki Tools?<br>B. Please look at the last page to find answers to these questions. Be sure to review any topics you did not know. <br>II. Making changes or corrections to Wiki pages.<br>A. Wiki pages are added and maintained by volunteers and missionaries. When you see a misspelled work, a typing error, or wrong information, you can easily make the corrections. First you need to learn just a few things to help you understand how to edit wiki pages.<br>1) External links – This are links to pages outside of the Wiki. When you see a link followed by a double arrow, it indicates the link is to a site outside of the Wiki. For example it might be an official State website. <br>2) If there is not a double arrow, the link will take you to a site within the wiki. For example, it might be a list of tips for searching online indexes, which has been added by a Wiki contributor.<br>B. On each page and at the top of each topic, there is a place where you can indicate you want to do an edit.<br>1) You will see at the top right of each page. When you click on that link, it will put the entire page into edit mode. <br>2) Usually the best way to do a simple edit is to put just the section you are working on in edit mode. To do this, you will want to click on the , which is found in the upper right hand corner of each new section. When you hover over the link, you will see the word “edit” appear. When you click on the link, it will put that section in edit mode. <br>a) Let’s say you see this typing error on a page: | ||
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