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This page is about how to use Moodle's wiki activity. It assumes you have added/created a Moodle wiki and are ready to add your first page. Editors note this page could be redirected from mod/wiki/view, a help page.

Overview

A Moodle wiki has 4 tabs, the most commonly used tabs are view and edit.

Adding a wiki page

There are several ways to add a new wiki page. In later versions of Moodle, the course participant's privileges can affect adding or editing wiki pages. First you will create a link to a page that does not exist, then the wiki will create the blank page which someone can edit.

From a Wiki page

This is the easiest way to add a page (or the first one that worked for me!). Participants in a Wiki can create a new page by editing an existing Wiki page and adding a Wiki link that points to the page they want to create. A Wiki link is simply any character string enclosed in square brackets. The string is converted to a link by the following process:

Click the Edit tab on the front page of the Wiki
In the edit box type the title of the new page that you want to create. Enclose the title text in a SINGLE set of square brackets. Like this (other wikis use double brackets (including Moodle 2.0), the earlier Moodle wikis uses a single pair):
Click Save.
The page you have just edited will now be displayed. The words "My First Added Page" will be displayed with a question mark link immediately after it and may look like:
Click on the "?" and you will be taken to an edit screen for a new page called:- "My First Added Page"
Edit this new page with text as you will, and then click Save. You just created a new wiki linkable page.
Want to check the link by going back to the original Wiki page?
1. Click on the page link under "referring links" at the bottom of the new page in view mode.
2. Another way is to click the - Choose Wiki Links - box, and then, from the drop down menu, select Site map. Click on the original page displayed on the screen. The words "My First Added Page" will have now become a link to your new page, a Wiki link.
Bingo!

Add by initial wiki creation

When the teacher selects Wiki from the Add an Activity pull down menus in a course, they will be asked to create the first page.

Add by using search

In some versions of Moodle (not in 1.8 standard), any participant (with correct privileges) of an existing wiki can enter the name of the page they would like to create in the Search box on a wiki page. For example they might enter the name "Roses".

If the page already exists

they will be taken to the page "Roses"

If the page does not exist, they will see:

There is no page titled "Roses"

They can create this page by clicking on the "create this page" link

and begin editing the new page called "Roses"

Editing a wiki page

Editing the standard Moodle wiki is simple

Click on the edit tag at the top of the wiki page
Edit the text
Then save the page, or preview the page before saving

Remember that MoodleDocs is a different(more robust and complicated) kind of wiki than the standard Moodle wiki. Many MoodleDoc or WikiMedia wiki tags (See Help:Editing) may not work in the standard Moodle wiki in versions 1.8 and earlier.

The standard help file gives the basics of editing in ErfurtWiki. See Moodle Help Docs on How to wiki

Wiki search

Wiki search ignores hyperlinks so it is wise to add a "Keywords:" line which contains the words of the the page title separated by commas, and any other entries that you wish to be found by the search.

NWiki

if you are using Ludo's new Nwiki module, there are some additional features.

Change to one of the following editors

Nwiki has several parsers, each one requiring a different sort of text. Its best to choose properly at the beginning, as altering half way through is not a good idea - they may well make a mess of text with a different formatting.

HTMLeditor - the default editor that is used for all other moodle forms
DFwiki - the parsing engine from a previous third-party version of the wiki software. You or your students may be familiar with this and wish to continue using it
Ewiki - the parsing engine from the previous default moodle wiki.
nwiki - the most up to date engine, which is almost identical to the one used by wikipedia.

Also See

OUWiki (Plugin)
Tiddlywiki integration (Plugin)

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 {{Wiki}}
+This page is about how to use Moodle's wiki activity. It assumes you have [[Adding/editing a wiki|added/created a Moodle wiki]] and are ready to add your first page.  Editors note this page could be redirected from mod/wiki/view, a help page.
-==Adding pages==
+==Overview==
+[[Image:Wiki_tabs.JPG]]
+A Moodle wiki has 4 tabs, the most commonly used tabs are view and edit.
-A useful way of adding pages and maintaining a structured contents page (as opposed to the alphabetical '''Page Index''') is to add initial wiki pages from the front page:
+==Adding a wiki page==
-* Click the edit tab on the front page of the wiki
+There are several ways to add a new wiki page.  In later versions of Moodle, the course participant's privileges can affect adding or editing wiki pages.  First you will create a link to a page that does not exist, then the wiki will create the blank page which someone can edit.
-* Type the desired page title in square brackets on any part of the page e.g. [Surds]
+=== From a Wiki page===
-* Save the page
+This is the easiest way to add a page (or the first one that worked for me!).  Participants in a Wiki can create a new page by editing an existing Wiki page and adding a Wiki link that points to the page they want to create.  A Wiki link is simply any character string enclosed in square brackets.  The string is converted to a link by the following process:
-The page will now display Surds? with the question mark being a hyperlink to the new empty page.
-* Click on the question mark and add content to the new page.  The question mark will then disappear.
-== CamelCase notation ==
+# Click the ''Edit'' tab on the front page of the Wiki
+# In the edit box type the title of the new page that you want to create.  Enclose the title text in a SINGLE set of square brackets. Like this (other wikis use double brackets (including Moodle 2.0), the earlier Moodle wikis uses a single pair):  [[Image:Wiki non linked page example 1.JPG|center]]
+# Click ''Save''.
+# The page you have just edited will now be displayed.  The words "My First Added Page" will be displayed with a question mark link immediately after it and may look like:[[Image:Wiki non linked page example 2.JPG|center]]
+# Click on the "?" and you will be taken to an edit screen for a new page called:- "My First Added Page"
+# Edit this new page with text as you will, and then click ''Save''.  You just created a new wiki linkable page.
+# Want to check the link by going back to the original Wiki page?
+##Click on the page link under "referring links" at the bottom of the new page in view mode.
+##Another way is to click the ''- Choose Wiki Links -'' box, and then, from the drop down menu, select ''Site map''.  Click on the original page displayed on the screen.  The words "My First Added Page" will have now become a link to your new page, a Wiki link.
+# Bingo!
-*What is a CamelCase notation?  Your very first CamelCase notation you will create will look like: <nowiki>[Create wiki page]</nowiki>. Anything inside the square brackets is the page name. When this is placed on the first wiki page, a "?" that is a link appears. Clicking on the link in this example will take us to a new blank page called "Create wiki page".
+===Add by initial wiki creation===
-*CamelCase notation allows pages to be linked, indexes created for catagories, and all sorts of other organizational tools to make connections.
+When the teacher selects '''Wiki''' from the [[Adding resources and activities|Add an Activity
-*CamelCase describes what WikiWords look like. Multiple words, joined together without spaces, separated by changes in case. The uppercase and lowercase letters show up like the humps of camels.  This linking scheme is often also called BumpyText because it could look like CaMeL_CaSe.
+]] pull down menus in a course, they will be asked to create the first page.
-In return you will get in trouble, if you need to have words displayed in CamelCase in your text. Moodle will automatically turn those words into anchors with a link pointing to a new side. You may turn of this CamelCase functionality in the menu “Edit this Wiki”. I’m not sure this is the exact name of the menu, as I have only access to the Danish version of Moodle. It might be “Update this wiki” or something like that?
-==Deleting pages==
+===Add by using search ===
-<ul>
+In some versions of Moodle (not in 1.8 standard), any participant (with correct privileges) of an existing wiki can enter the name of the page they would like to create in the Search box on a wiki page.  For example they might enter the name "Roses".
-<li>
-Open the wiki </li>
+: If the page already exists
-<li>
+::they will be taken to the page "Roses"
-Use the Administration drop down menu in the upper right corner of your screen to delete pages </li>
+: If the page does not exist, they will see:
-</ul>
+:: '''There is no page titled "Roses"'''
+::They can create this page by clicking on the "create this page" link
+::and begin editing the new page called "Roses"
+==Editing a wiki page==
+Editing the standard Moodle wiki is simple
+* Click on the '''edit''' tag at the top of the wiki page
+* Edit the text
+* Then save the page, or preview the page before saving
+* Remember that MoodleDocs is a different(more robust and complicated) kind of wiki than the standard Moodle wiki. Many MoodleDoc or WikiMedia wiki tags (See [[Help:Editing]]) '''may not''' work in the standard Moodle wiki in versions 1.8 and earlier.
+The standard help file gives the basics of editing in ErfurtWiki. See [http://moodle.org/help.php?module=wiki&file=howtowiki.html&forcelang=#createpages Moodle Help Docs on How to wiki]
 ==Wiki search==
 Wiki search ignores hyperlinks so it is wise to add a "Keywords:" line which contains the words of the the page title separated by commas, and any other entries that you wish to be found by the search.
+=NWiki=
+if you are using Ludo's new Nwiki module, there are some additional features.
+==Change to one of the following editors==
+Nwiki has several parsers, each one requiring a different sort of text. Its best to choose properly at the beginning, as altering half way through is not a good idea - they may well make a mess of text with a different formatting.
+* HTMLeditor - the default editor that is used for all other moodle forms
+* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=115&filter=1 DFwiki] - the parsing engine from a previous third-party version of the wiki software. You or your students may be familiar with this and wish to continue using it
+* Ewiki - the parsing engine from the previous default moodle wiki.
+* nwiki - the most up to date engine, which is almost identical to the one used by wikipedia.
+==Also See==
+* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1015 OUWiki] (Plugin)
+* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=570 Tiddlywiki integration] (Plugin)
 [[Category:Teacher]]
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 [[fr:Afficher un wiki]]
+[[de:Wiki ansehen]]
+[[ja:Wikiを閲覧する]]

Documentation

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