Developing skills for Wiki authoring
Many of the skills you need for Wiki authoring - eg, editing text - are similar to those you need for blogging. However, there are some features specific to wikis, and each wiki platform handles some of these features in its own way. These notes deal in particular with PBworks; other wiki platforms will work in a largely similar way, but watch out for the differences.
Starting
In PBworks:
- click on Create a page (at the top of the right-hand column)
- give the page a name (keep it fairly short), and do Create page
- start typing your text in the editing pane; use formatting, create links, include images (as in a blog platform)
- when you are ready to stop, click Save (bottom left of editing pane)
Link to another page
Link to a newly created page
- select the word or phrase you wish to act as a link
- click on the hyperlink button (top row of editing toolbar)
- from the first drop-down menu, choose LInk type: PBworks page
- from the second drop-down menu, choose Page: New page
- give the new page a suitable Name
- click OK
- save the page you have been working on
- click on the 'New page' link you have just created
- click Create page
You can now start working on the new page
Link to an existing page
A good exercise to do at this point is to link back from your new page to your earlier one.
- follow the first 3 steps in the procedure above, then
- from the second drop-down menu, choose Page: select the page you wish to link to
- click OK
- Save the page you have been working on
Link to an external page
First, collect the URL (web address) of the page you wish to link to - see the procedure outlined in the section on Linking on the Skills for blogging page
Then, in PBworks,
- follow the first 2 steps as above, but
- from the first drop-down menu, choose LInk type: URL
- Paste in the URL (Ctrl-V in Windows, Cmnd-V in Mac)
- decide whether you wish the linked page to Open in a new window
- Click OK
Including media
Annoyingly, PBworks does not have an Image button in its editing toolbar, nor does there seem to be an obvious way to upload images. It seems that in order to insert an image we have to take a roundabout route.
If the image is already on the web
- find its web location, and collect its URL (see the note on this from the xxx page)
Plugin error: That plugin is not available.
If the image is your own
- you may first have to place it somewhere on the web yourself (see the note on posting images on the xxx page)
- you can upload your image file to PBworks, and link to it directly
To link to an image on the web
in the editing toolbar, click on Insert Plugin
hover over PBworks magic, then select HTML/Javascript
Paste in the URL for the image (which you Copied earlier)
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