Quick Guide to Editing Wiki Pages

Once you are Get Started with the LinkedEarth wiki registered, you can start editing existing pages, creating new ones, and move/delete obsolete pages. The pages you are allowed to edit depends on your editorial level.

This guide provides basic instructions on how to use the MediaWiki format. If you require more help, use this Help or contact us.

The quickest way to figure out how to do something is to find and example of what you want to do from another page, or on Wikipedia, and copy the source code from there.

Editing existing wiki pages

Images

If you want to add an image or document to your a wiki page (Not a LiPD file, use the special page described in this tutorial to upload your LiPD file), click on the "upload files" button that can be seen on the left of any wiki page (see Figure 23).

Figure 23: uploading an image or document to the Linked Earth wiki.

After you are done selecting the document you want to upload, just hit the "Upload file" button at the bottom of the page. Now you may reference to this file using brackets (e.g., [ [ File:File.png ] ]). You can see the different options for showing files in this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images

Creating a new wiki page

Just go to http://wiki.linked.earth/New_Page

Replace "New Page" above to the name that you want for the page.

Then, either select a category for this page (Figure 16):

Figure 16: Selecting a category for a new page

or, just click on the "Create" link to create a page without any category (Figure 17)

Figure 17: create page button, located on the bottom right of the page

Alternatively, you can search for the page you are looking for (remember that the wiki is case sensitive). If the page does not exist, you will be prompted to create it.

Deleting an existing wiki page

Go to http://wiki.linked.Earth/Name_of_Page Replace "Name of Page" above to the name of the page to delete, as shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18: Wiki page option menu

Then click on the "Delete" link, and delete the page. Figure 19 shows an example:

Figure 19: Deleting menu

Searching existing wiki pages

Before creating any page, it is recommended to search if they already exist. Searching a page can be done by entering the terms on the search bar located on the top right of any page (see Figure 20).

Figure 20: Search bar for finding existing wiki pages

Any page containing the word introduced in the search bar will be returned.

Renaming wiki pages

Wiki pages may need to be renamed. For example, due to typos in the page name or community agreement to rename a term in the LinkedEarth ontology. In order to rename an existing page without losing any of its contents, you should click on the "Move" button under the "More" menu on the top of the page. An example is shown in Figure 21.

Figure 21: Moving an existing wiki page

By clicking on the Move button, the page showed in Figure Figure 22 will ask for the new page name, as well as a reason of the change.

Figure 22: Moving a wiki page form.

After hitting the "Move page" button, your page will be renamed.