4.+Edit+your+Wiki

fter creating a page in your wiki, you can then start the process of adding content. The easiest type of content to add is text because you simply have to start typing. The "editor" bar at the top of the wiki allows access to familiar text editing options such as heading size, bold, italics, underline, and color. Try typing some text and then save your progress. After saving the wiki takes you out of edit mode and puts you in production mode so you can see what outside viewers will see. To return to edit mode you must click edit (with the icon of a pencil next to it.)



This interface is also used to add a hyperlink, picture, or file to your wiki. To enter a link, simply press the link button which will open the "Insert Link" interface. You can link to another page in your wiki called a "wiki link", to an external page such as a website, and you can also add an anchor which will link to another section of the same wiki page.

Let's put an external link into your wiki.

This link will take you to google
 * Note that the green arrow indicates that you are going to be leaving the wiki

This link will take you home. This is link that does not leave the wiki just changes the page you are viewing.

To add a picture or other file simply click the file button and upload the file to your wiki. Any images or files recently uploaded will appear in the list below. Please note that png, jpeg, gif, and tiff are all supported but (24 bit) bmp is not supported.



This is a pdf that I have embedded in this wiki. Now let's add a word doc or a pdf to your wiki.



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Widgets: You can add wigdets to your wiki as well. A widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. Widgets often take the form of on-screen tools (clocks, event countdowns, auction-tickers, stock market tickers, flight arrival information, daily weather etc.). (below is a google calendar showing U.S. holidays)======

media type="googlecalendar" key="en.usa%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com" ARG0="&ctz=America/New_York" height="420" width="560" align="center"

Another example: Adding a Google Maps, and a You Tube Video

Let's do both:

Google Map: Click on Wigdets in the Editor bar, then select Map, and Google Maps. Then follow the instructions below. Let's add a sample google map to your wiki.



You Tube Video:

Repeat above steps, but choose "Video" instead of maps, and then choose "YouTube".



Other Widgets include but are not limited to the following: RSS feeds, Google Video, Odeo audio, Air Set calendar, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, class surveys, polls, Scribd docs, Skype, and Flickr.