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Using Wiki

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This page is for documentation on how to use the wiki activity i.e. View, Edit, Links, History and is redirected from mod/wiki/view, a help page.

Overview

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

Adding pages

A useful way of to start a wiki, is to think of the front page as a structured table of contents. Essentially a wiki is organized by its links. 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.

  • Click the edit tab on the front page of the wiki ("Group" in our example)
  • We added a catagory, "How to create a new page" in our example and it is not linked
  • Type the desired page title in square brackets, for example [Image:Wiki_bracket_surds.JPG]]
  • Save the page

Wiki view page group before.JPG

The question mark after "Surds" is a hyperlink to the new empty page

  • Click on the question mark
  • Add content to the new page and save it.

Wiki edit surds.JPG

  • Now our front page called group has a hyperlink "Surds" and no question mark

Wiki view page group after.JPG

It is possible to create a link to a new page on any page. Of course adding a link to an existing page is as easy as placing the page name in brackets any place you want.

CamelCase notation

  • What is a CamelCase notation? Your very first CamelCase notation you will create will look like: [Create wiki page]. 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".
  • CamelCase notation allows pages to be linked, indexes created for catagories, and all sorts of other organizational tools to make connections.
  • 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.

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 site. You may turn off this CamelCase functionality in the menu “Editing Wiki” by checking the "CamelCase" box under "Wiki auto-linking options".

Administration drop down menu

Set page flags

Allows teacher to assign one or more page types to a page.

Remove pages

Select Remove pages from the Administration menu. Note that only unreferenced pages will be listed on the inital list. Deleting the content of a page will put it on this list. In later versions of wiki there is a List All Pages button. Check the pages and select remove.

Strip pages

Deletes pages saved in history.

Revert mass changes

There is a filter that will allow the teacher to roll back the entire wiki. Criterion includes author, how many hours since last change, what to do if someone else edited the change and how many versions to go back.

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.