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Video Tutorial
A screencast has been made which describes how to log in, make links, create pages, use headings and then goes through by example adding a bibliographic reference and adding links to the research method, and then adding something on the methods page that links back to the bibliography. This is nearly 100MB in size (!) and goes for a total of 20 minutes. It requires quicktime which is free and available for pc and mac. When you open the tutorial in the lower right window there is some text, which will probably default to 'Logging in'. The tutorial is broken into chapters, so when you click on this text a menu appears that lets you jump to each of the different sections of the video.
To play the video you've got two choices. Follow the link and it will load and play in the browser window. Alternatively launch QuickTime Player, then under the File menu select Open URL... and paste the url. Either way should work fine, but you will only get the chapter menus in QuickTime Player (if I get time over I will change this and add links into the movie...). The URL to paste is:
http://labsome.rmit.edu.au/files/screencasts/LikiScreencast.mov
or follow this little link to [view in your browser...]
Creating and Linking to Pages
Creating a New Wiki Page
To create a new page in this wiki simply use the following code:
[name of page | some link text]
The square bracket is how you tell the wiki that you are creating or making a link to somewhere inside the current wiki. The first bit of text is the name of the page you are linking to. The vertical bar is called a pipe (it's above the enter key on your keyboard) and separates the name from the link text. The link text is what will appear in the wiki page as a link. Hence I might want to make a page called "problem based learning", to do that I would write on a wiki page:
[problem based learning | some link text]
and when I saved this page there would be a link to a page called "problem based learning" which, if I followed it, could then be edited. Now I wouldn't leave it as 'some link text' so it might end up something like this:
The area of [problem based learning | problem based learning] offers much as a method to model research for research students.
Now while I have used spaces in the name of the page the wiki will automatically replace these with underscores in the url, so the name of the page will end up being problem_based_learning (blank spaces are not good to have in urls).
Linking to an Existing Page
To link to an existing page in the wiki just find the name of the page (you don't need the whole url, just the name of the page, for example the home page is called Main_Page) and you write the link in the same way as you do for making a new page:
[problem based learning | some link text]
you could also write:
[problem_based_learning | some link text]
to achieve the same result.
Linking to External Pages
To make a link in the wiki to a webpage that isn't part of the wiki then use the following code:
[[full url here some link text]]
Notice, it is two square brackets, you need a full url (http etc), and then just have a blank space between the full url and the text that will appear as a link. For example:
[[http://labsome.rmit.edu.au labsome]]
will provide a link to labsome, eg:
The Bachelor of Communication (Honours) program has a studio and website called [[http://labsome.rmit.edu.au labsome]].
Which would appear as:
The Bachelor of Communication (Honours) program has a studio and website called [labsome].
Formatting Text
Basic Formatting
The [mediawiki formatting page] has all you need to know about formatting text and the like in liki.
Adding Media
Pictures
The easiest way to add images is to:
- make sure you are logged in to the wiki
- click the "Upload file" link under the toolbox menu (over on the right sidebar)
- upload your picture (it can be in jpg or png file format)
- make sure you know the name of the file (the entire file, eg greatpic.jpg)
- go to the wiki page where you want to add the graphic
Then there are a variety of ways to add the picture, with accessories:
[[Image:Example.jpg|Sunflowers]]- this will embed the image and what appears after the pipe (the vertical line) will be the alt text (what appears in place of the image if images are turned off)
[[Image:Example.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Sunflowers]]- will embed the image, center it, and will resize the image to 100 pixels on the longest size. (The options for alignment are left, right and center.)
You can also make a gallery of thumbnails, and some other options are available. See mediawiki.org for galleries and mediawiki.org for general details on images.
Audio and Video
This wiki supports the including of QuickTime content. So the first thing is that if you have audio or video content you must make sure it is QuickTime. The easiest way to (usually) do this is to open the file in QuickTime Pro (this is on our Macs) and simply do a File - Save As... This will wrap whatever it is into a .mov file. As far as I can tell the controller bit isn't working so doesn't appear, so to make the video play you need to double click it.
Then:
<qt>file=filename.mov|attribute=value|...</qt>
Attribute Reference
- width=px or % (Modify the width of the object)
- height=px or a% (Modify the height of the object)
- autoplay=true/false (Start playing the file or wait at first frame, default:true)
- controller=true/false (Show the controller, default:true)
- name (object-specific)
- id (embed-specific)
- src (embed-specific)
<qt>file=film.mov|width=320|height=240|autoplay=true</qt>
Shows the movie with the with a width of 320 and a height of 240 pixels that starts playing as soon as its loaded.
<qt>file=film.mov|width=320|height=240|autoplay=false|controller=true</qt>
Shows the movie with the with a width of 320 and a height of 240 pixels that does not play when loaded, but waits for the user to click on the play button.
PDFs and other files
If you have a document you would like to attach or add to a wiki page then it is usually best to do this as a pdf. To do this on OS X simply open the file in any program, go File - Print and in the print dialog click the pdf drop down menu (usually in the lower left) and save it as a pdf to your computer.
Then:
- make sure you are logged in to the wiki
- click the "Upload file" link under the toolbox menu (over on the right sidebar)
- upload your pdf
- make sure you know the name of the file (the entire file, eg essay.pdf)
- go to the wiki page where you want to add the pdf
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