Learn more about Wiki

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Wiki – HKNews

Essence of Wiki

• Fully Open, Free Edit
  • Allows all users to edit any page
• Easy Hyperlink Pages
  • Create links by adding [[]] to any text,
  • e.g., John will create a link to the wiki page titled, “John”
  • If no such page, wiki will create that page in edit form to invite users to add content
• Search for related topics
  • Type keywords in search form
  • Title and full-text search
  • Result in a listing of related topics
  • Provide background, relevant information, additional information, new ideas – to create context

How?

• Register – login every time
• Edit
  • Click top menu label of any page
  • Type or revise as you wish
  • Click save at bottom of the page
• Create links / page
  • Add [[]] to include any text for a hyperlink
  • If no such page, wiki creates for you
• Link - A link in blue; New page – A link in red

Tips on markups

• Bullet list: *
• Number list: #
• Format as a headline: == ==
• Hyperlink: [[ ]]
• Display a photo:
  • upload the photo, file name
• Redirect: #Redirectpage title
  • If you want to converge all the similar pages into one
  • e.g., Mr. John Chan; Mr. John W.K. Chan, John Chan all should refer to only the same page John Chan, type a redirect command to all other pages
• URL external link: [URL]
• Wrap paragraph in a text box: give two space

Why Wiki?

• E-mail messages & Newsgroup posting
  • Cannot edit subject line for organization of information
  • Too much duplication of content, cannot easily conclude with reply messages
• Discussion Forum & Message Boards
  • Appear as threaded discussion posts,
  • Require reading prior messages to understand, quote a lot to provide context
  • Cannot edit
• Webpage
  • Only administrator can edit content;
  • Need to learn HTML and FTP
• Database
  • Only administrator can edit content;
  • Only query search available to display content
  • Cannot link up content

Wiki

• Any page at any time is a final and complete version
  • Readers always get comprehensive and complete information
• Users participation
• Never can we serve thousands of students and graduates of their individual needs
• Therefore, let them do it
  • Be Creative
  • How? Really anything, anything you like will find someone who likes to share