Difference between revisions of "User talk:Laurmagee"

Revision as of 06:59, 8 September 2013

Week 1 Feedback

You’re off to a decent start; just need to check off a few more wiki skills like file/image uploads, categories, and templates.

Items for completion/follow-up:

• Snail mail address
• Create a new wiki page
• Link to an external site
• Create a numbered list
• Comments inside the wiki markup
• Upload and link to an image
• Upload and link to a file
• Assign a category to a page
• Create and use a template
• Link to an assignment (Week n) page
• Link to the shared journal from your user page

—Dondi (talk) 09:06, 3 September 2013 (PDT)

Week 1 Feedback Follow-up

Hi Lauren,

Thanks for filling in the missing information/wiki skill items from last week! As for the two leftovers that weren’t clear, here’s my stab at explaining them further...

“Comments inside the wiki markup” refer to text that you can “hide” in your wiki page, which is only visible when the user is editing it. In other words, these can be “comments” by you that are not meant to be part of the content of the page. If you edit this Talk page, you will see that, right below this paragraph, there is text in the source that you do not see on the page. Note the starting and ending symbols—that’s how you tell the wiki that whatever is in between should only be visible during editing.

Now, as for the Category, look at my user page and scroll to the bottom. There is a box that starts with “Categories:” with red links for Individual Homework and User Page. This is what is meant by a category. It is a “tag” that you can attach to a page, so that it can be accessed by category. If you click on Individual Homework or User Page, you will see other pages that have been given that category. Your Shared Journal pages have this also.

Hope this answers your questions. Let me know if more explaining is needed.

One last point of feedback, and that is regarding your template—you certainly got the mechanics of it right (creating; using). Do try to build it up as a table of contents for your work and other related pages—this is a very compelling use for a template, particularly with the way we are using the wiki.

—Dondi (talk) 23:59, 7 September 2013 (PDT)