Creating New Pages in WSU Wiki
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This page provides an introduction to creating pages in WSU Wiki. Use the steps below to create your page. Do not edit this page. Thanks.
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Types of Pages
Article Pages
Articles are similar to encyclopedia entries, and guidelines found in Wikipedia should be used for naming these pages. If a parallel article exists in Wikipedia the same name might be adopted, to help readers navigate between the two resources.
Bibliography Pages
Bibliography pages should be named like Articles. Collaboratively built bibliographies on specific topics are a way for students to share their learning over time. Annotating the bibliography is optional. It would be helpful to others to add Category(ies) to your bibliography. This will cause an index to get created for your topic, and other articles might get added to the index, and or, others may more easily find your work. Discussion pages for the bibliography can be used to propose changes, explain deletions, etc.
As a bibliography grows, it may become desireable to write an introduction that synthesizes the bibliography. Over time this might cause the bibliography to evolve into an Article. For that reason, Bibliographies should be named like Articles.
Course Pagelists
A list of wiki pages that are relevant to a course can be valuable and interesting. See WSUWiki:Course_Pagelist_How-To.
Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) Pages
Interest Groups
Interest Groups in WSU Wiki are a mechanism for finding people and sharing resources. An Interest Group is a collection of people (and resources) around a topic, for the purposes of mutual learning, practice, or support. Groups might be formal registered student organizations, informal clubs, or not organized in any way. Learn how to
Club or Group Pages
Student Clubs or groups (Registered Student Organizations or not) are welcome to maintain a page, with the understanding that it enriches the educational experience of being at WSU. Check the Appropriate Use guidelines. Clubs may want to create and maintain other kinds of pages, (e.g., Bibliography, Articles) in WSU Wiki. These can be organized by creating one or more category tags, and placing these on articles in the wiki (see: How-to) (as well as club members might place these categories on their User pages). This will have the effect of creating a category page that is an index to all the pages of interest to club/group members.
There is an Index of Interest groups and a place to advertise a group in the Community Portal.
Clubs or groups with non-WSU affiliations or activities that are inappropriate for WSU Wiki, may want to link to another web resource, one possiblity is MoscowWiki.
User Pages
Users automatically have a page availalbe to them in the system. Click on your name in the banner and begin editing your page. By convention, users edit only their own User pages. Use the Discussion page associated with someone else's User page to leave suggestions for changes, etc.
How to create a page
Create the page by going to its URL
This method involves going to the page you wish to create by editing the URL showing in the browser. For example, the URL of for a new page on "Electronic Portfolio" would be
http://wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Electronic_Portfolioand you could create it by editing the URL you see when reading any other page in WSU Wiki.
Note: If you have a multi-word title for your new page, use underscore (_) in place of spaces in the URL.
Link to the page from another page
You can create a new page by first creating a link to it, then following that link to create the new page's contents. If it seems odd to create a link to a page that doesn't exist, think of it this way: in a wiki, a link to a non-existent page is a "request" to create the page. Following the link gives you an editing box where you can fulfill the "request".
The procedure is:
- Find a page that "naturally" should have a link to the new page. If there doesn't seem to be such a page, you can use the Sandbox and make a link from there.
- Edit the page (using the "edit" button at the top). Somewhere in the wikitext in the box on the editing page, create a link to the new page using the wiki's "internal link" notation:
[[some_page_name]]
Note that spaces are not allowed in page names; use underscore characters instead, as shown above. - VERY IMPORTANT: Use the "Save page" button to save your changes into the wiki. The wiki will display the page you just edited. On that page, the link to the new page will be shown in red. This indicates that the page linked to does not exist.
- Click on the red link. The wiki will display an editing box for the new page.
- Type in content for the new page.
- [VERY IMPORTANT] Use the "Save page" button to save your changes into the wiki.