Help:Creating and Editing Pages
From Information Systems at Pitt Business
We have limited editing to people who have be explicitly given accounts not because we are worried about what people have to say - but simply because managing spam and junk in a purely public space is a full-time job. If you are interested in helping edit, change, or create material on this site, contact me (the PittBusinessIS wiki administrator) describing your connection to the Katz/CBA community and I'll get you setup with an account.
Easy editing of pages is what wikis are made for. It only takes a few clicks.
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[edit] Editing existing pages
- Click the edit page tab
- Make changes to the text in the edit box. Make sure you write clearly and concisely, and make sure your edit does something to improve the page. If you're making normal changes to the text like fixing spelling mistakes or grammar, inserting new sentences, etc, then you don't have to worry too much about formatting. When you do need to use some type of formatting, you do it using wiki syntax, see Help:Formatting for some of the common types of formatting used.
- Optionally, enter a short note in the Summary box describing your changes.
- Optionally preview your changes with the Preview button.
- Click the Save page button.
- One can rename pages as well using the move page tab.
[edit] Adding to a Discussion
Every article has its own discussion page where you can ask questions, make suggestions, or discuss corrections. Click the discussion page tab to reach it. You can sign your message by writing 4 tildes (~~~~). The wiki software turns them into the current time and your username or your current IP address if you are not logged in.
[edit] Creating New Pages
[edit] Using Wikilinks
MediaWiki makes it very easy to link wiki pages using a standard syntax (see Links). If you (or anyone else) creates a link to an article that doesn't exist yet, the link will be coloured red, like this.
Clicking a red link, will take you to the edit page for the new article. Simply type your text, click save and the new page will be created.
Once the page has been created, the link will change from red to blue (purple for pages you've visited) indicating that the article now exists.
If you replace ARTICLE with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet. Clicking the "edit" tab at the top of the page will take you to the edit page for that article, where you can create the new page by typing your text, and clicking submit.
[edit] From the search page
If you search for a page that doesn't exist (using the search box and 'go' button on the left of the page) then you will be provided with a link to create the new page. (Note that this technique doesn't work if you use the 'search' button).
