Technology How To

Using Wikis@ZSR
Begin by going to http://wiki.zsr.wfu.edu/

1. If you need a blog created use the Get a Wiki link.
2. If you are looking for an existing wiki, click the Current Wikis link.
3. If you are looking for an existing wiki and cannot find it in the list, contact your instructor for the private link to that wiki.

Once at your destination wiki, Bookmark the page in Firefox or make it a Favorite in Internet Explorer for easy access in the future.

Next click Log in / create account and log in with your WFU login and password.

Editing a Wiki

Editing a Wiki requires some coding to format the text. Clicking the Edit tab on a wiki page will open the page in the edit view.

Wiki Editing Cheatsheet

Formatting Text in a Wiki

-To Create Italicized Text, Type two apostrophes around the text
’’italic’’

-To Create Bold Text, Type three apostrophes around the text
’’’bold’’’

-To Create a Bulleted List Type, Type an asterisks around the text
*Item one

-To Create a Level 1 Heading, Type two equals signs around the text
==Level 1==

-To Create a Level 2 Heading, Type three equals signs around the text
===Level 2===

Once you have 4 Levels in a document, an outline will be automatically generated at the beginning of the wiki.

-To Create a Hyperlink, Type brackets around the URL and text to display
[http://cnn.com This is cnn]

-To Sign a Page, Type 4 tildes in a row, or Click the Signature button in the button bar
~~~~

Saving a Page

Click the Save Page button

Previewing a Page

Click the Show preview button at the top of the wiki page above the toolbar visible in the “edit” tab to preview a page. Please note that the page is NOT saved until the Save page button is clicked.

Viewing page history

Click the “history” tab at the top of the wiki page to see the page history and all changes that have been made to the document in chronological order.

Use the radio buttons to select multiple versions of a page and then click Compare selected versions to compare the contents in a split screen view.

Reverting to a previous version

• Use the Compare selected versions button to show the current and a previous version.
• Click the edit link above the text revision
• Click Save page to save this text over the previous version.
• Another option is to use the Rollback link

Creating a new wiki page

To create a new wiki page you must first create a link to the page:
• Create the page by typing double bracket and the name of the page.
• Type the pipe symbol between the file name and the link name.
• Close the double brackets with two more brackets.
• Click Save page.
• The new page will open in the edit tab view.
• Begin editing the new wiki page.