Draft WikiBasic

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Authorized Users: 
  Currently only authorized users can edit documents 
  (omer, claudio, honora, gary, geoff).
Draft documents: 
  The same list is enabled to read documents with a draft somewhere in the name.

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How to edit a page

  1. You must be logged in to modify pages.
  2. You can edit an entire page clicking on the edit page on the top.
  3. Some pages have multiple sections that can be edited separately. Whenever there are sections you will find a link with edit just at the begin of each section
  4. When editing a page you have a box where you can write or paste material as you want.

Simple instructions for editing a page

Sandbox

You can practice using sandbox special page where you can do whatever you want without any problems.

To have a carriage return you MUST insert an extra blank line (press enter two times)

The following 

To be or 
not to be

Will be shown as

To be or not to be

To have proper spacing you MUST use extra lines 

To be or

not to be

This will give properly

To be or

not to be

To Indent you may USE the : colon sign. Do NOT use underscores 

:this sentence
::another sentence

Will show as

this sentence
another sentence

If you leave a blank space at beginning of each line then those lines will be treated as citations

So whenever you paste documents check that no initial spaces are there.

To have a bulletted list of points you MUST begin the line with a STAR * 

* Bla
* Bla 
Will produce:
  • Bla
  • Bla

To have a numbered list of points you MUST begin the line with a POUND # 

# Bla
# Bla
Will produce:
  1. Bla
  2. Bla

DO NOT put extra lines in the middle otherwise the counting will restart from 1.

Enhancing the text (italics, bold) 

''TEXT''
'''TEXT'''

Will produce 

TEXT
TEXT


To divide a long document in sections (putting titles) you must use double-equals 

== Heading of a section ==

Will produce the title of a paragraph and plus will set up AUTOMATICALLY the Table of contents. 

You can use also 
=== Heading of a subsection ===

Sections and subsections are very useful to produce good structured pages. And enhance the friendliness for people reading your page.

Instructions on how create a new page

Naming each page

Each page MUST have a unique name. The name is automatically set when you set up a new link to it in a previously present page. So you have to choose the parent page and put the new link somewhere in it.

Setting a new link

Edit the parent page, and add somewhere 

[[Name of the new page]]

If you want to display something different from the name of the page OR if you later decided to change the name of the page the best is adding a PIPE (|) character and use an alias. 

[[Internal name of the page|showed name]]

Setting external links

If you want to refer to external pages you may do as follow: 

http://www.servas.org

Will produce

http://www.servas.org 

[http://www.servas.org]

Will produce

[1]

If you want to link a previously existent page in this wiki you just put 

[[name of the page|optional name]]

Will produce

optional name

Colour of links

Links in red are NOT YET created pages. In Blue: they exist.

Real creation of the new page

Just click on the newborn red link on the parent page and you are in edit mode with the new page.


Help! Where is that document?

If you get lost, you can find your documents in the following ways:

Look for recent changes

Just click on the link on your left. You will see all documents modified recently and so you may see the exact name of your page and you can go on it. If you changed the name of the link, you should use the PIPE notation,

Search documents

You may write something on the sarch box on your left bar and just click on the button search

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