 Okay, well, hello and welcome. This is a recorded session for the Wiki online training. And today we're going to be going over the basics of editing on the Wiki. And it won't be enough to get into some of the really fun and interesting things. But what I hope to do is at least show you where information on some of the fancier tips and tricks sit on the Wiki so you can go back to that. And make you feel confident that there's lots of resources that will help you as you gain confidence in your editing and want to progress beyond the basics. So the first thing that you need to know is when you come to the Wiki page, the Wiki is just like any other website, freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. So anything that is on the Wiki is out there in the ether. But unlike Wikipedia, which is sort of the best known Wiki, you can only edit on the AIC Wiki with permission. And in order to have permission, you will need to watch this online training session or undergo one of the live online sessions. And then let me, Rachel, the AIC editor, know that you've done that. And I will sign you up with both an account and then upgrade your access to what is the contribution level, so creator access. If you don't have creator access, you may have an account, but it doesn't actually allow you to do anything on the Wiki. So if you're not logged in when you come to the site, it's just going to look like this with an IP address. And you will get a username and password. Unlike most websites on the Wiki, the username is case sensitive, so just something to keep in mind. And you will get sort of an automatically generated password that you will be able to change to something much easier to remember. So in this case, I'm going to just jump to the main page on another browser where I've already logged in. And you'll see that once I do that, actually, there's a few other things that come up on these tabs. And so let's just go through that. There may be a couple of tabs that I have because I have higher level access, but most of this will be the same for anyone with creator access. So the first thing to understand about a Wiki page is that there's actually two parts to it. The first part is the page, which you're seeing here. The page is essentially the text that people are coming to see. It's sort of the outward facing part of the page. But every page also has a discussion or a talk page. And that's a great way of sort of seeing what discussions or information went into the creation of the content page. So we'll talk a little bit more about how this is used by some of the various groups. But what you'll start to see as we go through is that the page title is a really key piece of information because it's what allows you to understand sort of what page you're on and how to link to it. So just to give you an idea here, we're on the main page. This has our overall navigation and all the tips on getting you started. And if I click on to our discussion page, you'll see that this title changes. So we have like a prefix here, which is talk, main page. So this prefix becomes part of the actual title. So a talk or discussion page is formatted and created the same exact way as a main contact page, but it has this prefix. And you'll see as we talk about other kinds of pages that this will repeat this idea of a prefix in the title of a page. So in any case, once you log in, one of the things that I'm going to encourage you to do is to click on your username and that will take you to your own user page. And you'll see here, again, now we're in what's called the user pages. And so we have this user prefix. And this is my username. My username actually doesn't conform to the standard protocol that we use for the Wiki Witches first initial and last name, but all the rest are lowercase. So when in doubt, that will be the format. And we use our names on the AC Wiki as opposed to sort of best conservator one, two, three, because we want there to be some transparency. We want people to be able to use our names and our expertise and our background as a way of helping them evaluate the status and content of a page. So in any case, you can see here, I've just put in a little bit about myself. It's a nice place to sort of experiment with doing your first bit of editing, figuring out how you can upload a document, put in an image, play around a little bit. So I encourage you to do that once you get your account set up. But let's just go back to the main page for a minute and sort of talk about how our Wiki is set up. So our Wiki was set up initially importing a number of the conservation catalogs that have been developed by several of the specialty groups. And so that content came over from a written format and it has a very sort of offline structure to it, like with a table of contents and numbered chapters and things like that. It's a format that does not translate so well to the Wiki once, especially once you start to update and expand and move things around. But you'll see that as part of the sort of legacy. So a number of the specialty groups like textiles, paintings, book and paper had these catalogs that were moved over from print format. A number of the other specialty groups like the electronic media and objects sort of jumped in and worked directly creating their catalogs in the Wiki. So I'm just going to show you a little bit. So here you'll see this structure here with the Roman numerals as opposed to let's go to the objects page where they're using the table that gets automatically generated if you're using the various headers. So I just wanted to sort of explain a little bit about sort of where our content is coming from. Generally each specialty group has a Wiki chair or coordinator and each group works in a slightly different way. Some is sort of a much more online Wiki process and people are putting information up independently and asking for it to be sort of crowdsourced and edited by their peers. Other groups have a much more offline editorial process and the sort of final product goes up online. So when we're talking about content in the materials and treatments section, it's sort of important to remember that there is a bit of etiquette. You can always go in and update a link or link from sections. You can correct a typo or broken link or something like that without checking. But if you want to substantially edit or add to materials in any other specialty group section, you are encouraged to be in touch with that Wiki chair just to sort of make sure that that's working along with their guidelines. However, since that process started, that was the original content that came to us. Now we have a large number of other sort of content groups that are created sometimes by the various AIC networks and committees and working groups and some have just been set up by individuals and so those sections have sort of a different etiquette to them. So for preventive care, we have some material that's being overseen by the collection care network. Mountmaking is sort of overseen by the Mountmakers Forum group. Education and training is broadly overseen by the Education and Training Committee of AIC. Work practices is a bit of a free-for-all. Hopefully someone will lead that venture down the road, but the public relations and outreach toolkit is an ECPN venture. This additional topic is the history of conservation, exhibiting conservation, lexicon are all things that are sort of collaborative efforts across the platforms and materials and research analysis is also very collaborative although some of the primary material has come from the RATS group. So the reason I just wanted to mention this is just to again encourage you to reach out. Generally, any given page will have some information about who is in charge of that page and how you can guidelines or information and how to get in touch with them if you have an update or a correction or something to add or contribute. Okay, so without further ado, let's just jump into one of the pages and start editing so that you can get a sense of that. So we're going to just practice on one of the lexicon pages just because there's a lot of opportunities there and we're going to surf to the lexicon term list and let's go to B where we have an entry that we're going to look at for bloom. So one of the things that you'll see here that's interesting is that there's a couple of different colors going on and there is the distinction between the two blues is not as bold as I would like and so that is something that may be dealt with in a future update but if you can see it you'll see that there is sort of a light blue and a dark blue and that distinguishes between pages where content exists that you've clicked on that link before so the light blue is a link that you've surfed through recently and the darker blue is one that you haven't but blue indicates that this is an active link with content in the page as opposed to red which somebody has created the idea of a page but if we click on it you'll see that it throws you directly into the editing of this page because the content does not yet exist and it says you followed a link to a page that does not yet exist to create the page start typing in the box below and once you do that and save the page that link will go from red to blue but if we're not ready to do that we are not going to put any information in there but you'll see that also changes the color a little bit so now we have this sort of darker red that indicates you know that you've been there so in a sense you know when you want to create a new page you're going to actually create a link to a place that doesn't exist until you go in and put content there but for right now let's follow link to a page that does exist and we're going to add a little bit of information here so here you'll see we're in the page for bloom and again you'll see this idea of the color distinctions we have content on this page we don't have any discussion so the discussion page is red it it sort of exists as a concept but there's no content there so the lexicon pages all actually have a template that was developed and is easy to download and let me just go back a minute to the lexicon page where there's actually this content was created sorry this the template was created and this gives you some information on how to actually use that to start you off with your formatting so a number of the specialty group pages also have a general template and they can be modified as you go but it's nice to not have to reinvent the wheel and different pages also have sometimes outline their citation format and this is something that we're I'm trying to make sure that everybody is is using the same citation format but we'll come back to that a little bit too okay so here we are in our bloom entry and the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to you know have a couple of things that I would like to add here so I'm going to go into the edit tab and so just like when I clicked on that red link for a page that didn't exist you'll see here that it throws me into an editing window that's in a similar to things you've probably seen elsewhere in other in other sort of forward processing programs and this one is sort of slim there isn't a lot of what we call the the wizzy wig the what you see is what you get options but there are a few which are really helpful so this is also what starts to you know make people make people's eyes go crossed a little bit so you know when you're editing in the wiki there's actually a little bit of coding that you're doing and these wizzy wig buttons are here to help you but there's a lot that is not included it on these you know buttons and so so there's you know other ways to figure out how to how to do that but what you're seeing is here this is lots of you know sort of apostrophes and brackets and equal signs and dashes and bright lines and all of that goes into creating the the formatting that you'll want to see so let's first talk about what we can do to add some text so right now I'm going to to to add a link to a glossary reference elsewhere and let me just make sure that it's not here well in this case this one is here and let's just we're just going to check to see if this is the right one and when I'm working in the wiki I tend to have a couple of browsers open so I can sort of check what I'm doing okay so this link is not working so let's see if we can find it so this one was bloom under furniture okay so we have a couple of nice examples one of our colleagues has generously allowed us to use his images from his glossary that he's built up to illustrate some of the things in our in our lexicon but because that link there was broken we're just going to copy this and we're going to put this one in here instead okay so I've just replaced this link here and I want to see if that's actually going to work before I there's a couple of options here down at the bottom of the page you'll see summary and if you edit on a page this will automatically come up as watch this page which means that if somebody else goes in to make a change to that page you'll get an email there's another way to watch pages and I'll show you that later but whenever you hit the save it's helpful to put in something in the summary and I'll show you why because that get that information gets tracked and it's it's easy for people to then sort of see what's been going on so in this case we're going to say I've dated link for okay so first I'm just going to show you what the preview mode is I like working in the preview mode because what it does is you see what the page looks like while you're editing your you're editing remains open so that's sort of helpful because right now I realize that somehow the formatting has changed and we don't want this link up on the on the we don't want our category link up here with the previous previous link spaces on the screen is something that the wiki does not recognize so if you want to have spaces put in you need to put in this BR code with the the little brackets the little greater than and less than sign and so let's hit show preview again okay so that now pushed it down to the next line but we actually probably want to do that again give us a little bit more space okay that's sort of looking better so one of the things that we'll talk about is when we with links is that I all I did here was paste in the URL and you actually see the URL it's active but it's the full full thing which you know sometimes is nice because it allows people you know to figure out where that link is or if something goes wrong with it sort of to to track it back on the other hand sometimes it's it's a lot on the eyes and we just want you know a link to take us you know someplace and so then we're embedding the links with our text so we'll come back to that but I just want to explain a little bit about the preview so it says here up in red remember this is only a preview your changes have not been saved if I actually click on the link here just to make sure that that's working or something I will lose all this you know work that I've done on the page of course it was not a lot of work right now so it wouldn't be the end of the world but there's really nothing worse than spending like a half hour getting the page to look just right and then clicking on something and realizing that you were working in the preview mode and you haven't saved your page so before we do anything else I'm going to save the page so there's no reason to not save you know frequently and what you'll see now that I've saved the page that preview warning has gone away and if I click on history you'll see that that save now logged it with my username and the text that I put into the summary here is now there so somebody can sort of go in and see like it's not not clear maybe what Louisa did because she didn't put in anything into the summary but but this user did a nice job of of doing that and you know sometimes if it's if you don't see anything in the summary it was just you know a small correct and correction of formatting or typos or something like that but anytime you add you know wheel content or make a change it's great to use that summary field now that we're in the history tag tab I just also want to show you that this should make you feel comfortable that the wiki is sort of unbreakable you can you know always go into the history page and the edit page of any other page to sort of see the coding behind it and you know even if let's say you were trying to copy something and all of a sudden you cut it you know there's there's there's no reason to panic you didn't break anything so one of the things that's really great about about this is that you can actually compare selected versions so let's take a look at what I have here from one of the early versions of the here let's look at this one actually and we're going to go to compare selected revisions so this takes a little bit of experience sort of making sense of it but you'll see that this is the original version here on the left there are even older versions and this is the the latest revision and so this shows you some of the things that were either added or removed so most of these are additions you know at this point all of this now this doesn't mean that I added it it just means that these were additions you know after that took place after the this particular entry was saved so so you can always track and sort of see what other people have done to a page and if necessary you can roll back or undo and get back to a previous version so you know if you ever find that something has gone terribly wrong with the page you'll you know you can always contact me but you can roll back and you know you don't need to worry that you have to go off and hide because you know this is one of the great features so let's go back into our editing mode and let's just talk a little bit about some of the other other buttons that are up here so I would like to add a little bit of text to to this entry and so we're gonna say bloom can sometimes be mistaken for mold okay we're just using this for training purposes but let's say I want to emphasize this I can let's say I want to bold it so I can highlight my text click on bold and you'll see just like up here we have these three apostrophes and that's gonna give me bold well maybe I didn't actually want bold maybe italics would be better here so same thing you know I can highlight and then click on the button if if I know that I want to put something into italics or bold I can actually press the button to start me off but what you're seeing here is that it's giving you the code and then you have to fit your text in in here in the middle so so this brings up something that's important to understand about the wiki and sort of coding here is that generally if you start a piece of code before some text you'll need to finish it so sometimes if you find that something has has gone a little bit funky on a page you'll want to go back and see if you have sort of like hanging bits of code out there so one way that you can see this isn't the size of your font so this is a bit of code that you can add and I'm gonna scroll down and we're gonna go into preview mode so you can see that I've created the that I've made this font slightly bigger here and actually it's now done that for everything here because I did not end this so let's go back into and to end the the code you're gonna want to put your with a backslash so let's so it's hard to remember what it looked like before but this text now is back to its normal size and this one is still a little bit bigger so I'm not sure that we really want that so let's go in and get rid of this but let's run through a couple of the other WYSIWYG buttons so this if I hover over it it should tell us it so this is the button for a signature and timestamp so the signature and timestamp is something you probably won't use on a content page as much as on the talk or you know discussion pages so let's just go in and I'm gonna show you a good example of a talk page which was was the objects main page has a really nice discussion about sort of how they got started and how they structured their initial their you know initial outline and so you'll see here this says L Gordon for Leon and then K Holbro and so this if you use that button will automatically put in your username and a timestamp and so this is something nice to do when you sort of want to say okay you know I was in here I created this content this you know time and sort of leave a bit of a breadcrumb trail for yourself so I'm we don't want to do that here on our actual content page but I'm just gonna show you what it looks like it doesn't look like anything really until until you go into your show preview and then you'll see that it pops up okay so let's go back in here and we're gonna get rid of that which we don't need and before we go into some of these others you'll see we have headings format bullet lists and so some of these are sort of self explanatory but you'll see a bulleted list item so this again comes up this is the the relevant bit of code and then I'm gonna say wait now here it's you know if I already know that it's an asterisk I don't actually need the wizzy wig button I just can you know put in an asterisk and this is getting a little silly but it's hard for me to think and talk and type at the same time so you'll have to forgive me so so here we'll have our bulleted list and I'll show you in the preview so okay there we go and you know instead we could also change that if we wanted to be a numbered list so here we would take out our asterisk and replace it with with the number sign so the one thing to know about the asterisk and and numbering is that you don't have the same freedom that you do let's say in Microsoft Word where you can have tiered levels of numbers and and bulleted lists with with different little bullets the bulleted list here once you if you know if we do this it's going to you know start the the renumbering else over again so let's just show you a preview there okay so because we had the the space in between there it didn't recognize that as a continuous list if we get rid of that then we have a single you know a single list so it's just something to keep in mind as you format your page now this kind of bulleted and numbered list is different than our table of contents so if we go into into our text you'll see that these are headers related terms synonyms translation and discussion for their reading but we don't have you know any numbering there that's created by the use of the headers so and I encourage you to do use the headers because that keeps your formatting consistent across pages it allows you to automatically generate the table of contents if you wish if you don't there's a way of taking it out but you'll see the there's level 2 down through level 5 and so this will automatically provide some formatting and a sort of hierarchy to your pages that that you'll you know that will be reflected in the table of contents and so rather than experimenting with font size and bolding and italicizing and list stick with the with the headers as a way so you'll see that a level 2 header has the 2 equal signs before and after again starting and closing off the code and a level 3 header has three equal signs before and after so let's just go back in and look at those so you have your related terms which is a level 2 header and your synonyms in English which is your level 3 header back to a level 2 header here okay so there's a couple of other things that I am page break that I mentioned is as here you can do this is again that the big coding for a slightly bigger font and a slightly smaller font and then superscript and subscript over here so this is most of the formatting kind of stuff and you'll see this is in this advanced formatting menu if you have special characters or anything as you're typing and you don't have those on your keyboard you can choose them from from the list here and there's a couple of other alphabets here and when you get into help there's some reminders of what some of the most commonly used wizzy wake buttons are here so let's go back to advanced and here we're going to go in and now let's say we want to add a picture that we have from the fine arts conservancy about bloom so there's already a couple of pictures in here and it's a nice way to sort of see what's going on there's this is this is what you're seeing here is the code for one particular picture so before we do this though I'm going to actually go in and save even though this is not text that we'll want to save permanently okay and you'll see that I've you know fiddled around here my by making the fonts different sizes the big and little it you know it superseded the the the listing so again just something to keep in mind so we want to put in we have a wooden object here we have some fatty spewan hide but I have a picture of bloom on a painting that would be nice to add so that we can see different ways that that bloom appears on across different collection types so the thing to know about images is that it's a two-step process to add any additional kind of file to a page so what we're going to do is we're actually going to create a page for that file we're going to put it into our media library and create a page for it and then we're going to use the title for that page to embed it as an internal link so I'm going to keep this page open where I'm logged in and I'm actually going to now log in to this other browser bear with me a second and you'll see that the easiest way to do it is to go down to the bottom menu and hit upload file but it is also available from our main page there's you know a link a link there and there may also be up in our our header but this is the fastest way to get to it so the upload file so the thing I like about the upload file page is we've put in a little bit of some of the pieces of code that are most helpful and sometimes when I'm working in addition to having two browsers open I'll also have a word document up which is sort of like my cheat sheet so I can you know pull that up and paste that little bit of code in so let's talk we're gonna sort of go through and see what the difference is between these little pieces of code so first you can upload various file types you can have Excel and word documents PDFs and various JPEGs we ask that well the maximum file size is 100 megabytes we ask that you resize your images appropriately for online use before you put them into the system because we do you know pay for storage and our wiki content has grown enormously over the years which is great but we don't need to be storing enormous files if they're not going to be shown so if you're going to be using something you know you can resize it down preferably under five megabytes and we also assume that any image that you are uploading onto the wiki site you have obtained the proper permissions for or they're under creative commons or you know something that they're you know free impermissible to post on to the site so that's the responsibility of you know of the creator so here we're gonna choose this file and we're gonna look for okay so I've chosen my image and the file name comes up automatically and we're going to say that this is actually let's go back into the glossary and see if we can even find so this is blue we're gonna include our link here just for reference okay so again just like when we did some editing it's nice to put in something in your summary so that we have information on the original source of you know and permissions on that on that file again this comes up automatically that we're gonna watch this and then we're gonna click upload okay so now you'll see this wasn't a particularly large image but it gives us you know this the size of this preview is has plenty large enough for probably anything that we're gonna want so this page now is is devoted to this particular file image and you'll see that it has you know documents the size of it that I uploaded on the state and the information that I put into that summary and then once we start linking this file it'll it will automatically show you what pages are using that file but what's most important here is that now you see that we have a file prefix here but when we want to link to this page it's this entire title that's gonna be important for us this full page name so I'm just gonna hit copy on this and if we go back this is where I have my little cheat sheet you'll see these were the different ways of putting in this file name into our page and let's just go in and see how that looks like when we do that so we're gonna go back into our edit mode and we're just gonna put this down at the bottom of the page for now and then we can fiddle around with the formatting so our first is so you'll see it's just using sort of a placeholder and my cheat sheet but so we have file ACA blooming and we're gonna close this off so this double bracket is actually the code for an internal link and we're gonna come back again to linking but there's two kinds of links one is internal meaning linking to pages within our wiki and the second is external linking to pages that are not in the wiki but elsewhere on the worldwide web and they're gonna use a single bracket so anytime you see double brackets that's linking to something within our site okay so let's just see what happens when we use this second format okay I forgot a little bit of code here okay so here what we're saying is we want to link to this image but we don't want it to be its full size we want to make it a little bit smaller and this bit of code means that we want it to be a thumbnail with a caption and we're gonna want in this case maybe rather than having it on the left we're gonna line it on the right and we're gonna put in our text saying okay and we're gonna come back to this third one let's just take a look at this we're gonna show our preview okay so as you can see the difference between our full-size version and our smaller version is pretty substantial and this is probably you know too large this might be a little bit too small so we can go in and say well we definitely don't want this but this is you know a good example to just know that you know you're linking to that page that link works but it's this little these little bits of code that you put in afterwards that you know modify how that's seen so let's take a look there okay well that's sort of starting to look better so let's go back in and we can let's save our page for now now hmm I'm not going to actually upload another file because it's already in there and I don't have anything actually new that that is valid to go in but for this third thing I'm gonna show you another how to do that on a different page let's navigate over here and that's we're gonna find our page by searching the wiki has a really robust search mechanism and there's a couple of things to know about searching so this is a good opportunity so let's type in ivory so this just took me to the top page that was listed as ivory but if we do this this is going to take us in to a full search page and you'll see that it this is only searching for content pages but we can also search on our media pages and what's most useful is to go into your advanced page so here you'll see that you have actually a list of all the different kinds of prefixes that we were talking about you know our main content pages but we also have that user prefix we have a file prefix you know we'll get to categories in a couple of minutes so if you want to specify where you're looking for this content you can do that in an advanced search so here I want to look maybe in main but I also want to look in file and just for fun so you'll see that these are page title matches so this matches the title of a document a PDF document that's been uploaded and then some other images here that have ivory in the title and then the page text matches so I've raised mentioned on the table of contents of objects so you can see that you know this this is going to catch everything so page title versus page text you know where it's where it's embedded in the page and if we add in or let's change it to user we'll see it may be that we come up with Stephanie Hornback who uploaded all that material and she probably put into her user page that that her interests include this topic so let's go back to our file and main pages so we're going to go into ivory that jumped us down to ivory but we want to go in here okay so here you're seeing some of the the images that came up in our search what I want to sort of show you is down here this is a couple of different things related to the use of images and files so here we have Stephanie Hornback and this link is going to take you to to the actual PDF of document that's been uploaded into our media library and we have this little image here of the PDF which sort of makes these links pop out but her document is so beautifully formatted that we also put in a picture you know file of it just so it would you know do a little bit to to jazz up the page so let me just go in to show you how like a PDF is going to you know look a little bit different and what you can do to make sure that this link to the little PDF icon doesn't come up as an active link because you don't want to click on that and it just takes you to the little icon so let's go into our edit mode and I think this is a good example of sort of showing you if you're don't remember how to do something it's totally valid to go into another page and be like okay how does that work and what you're looking for is sort of like the little bits of code and that you can literally just take out copy and paste and you know insert your different your new you know page name your you know file name so in this case we were looking at this entry by Stephanie so here is where you're seeing that third option this media so this hornback ivy ID this file name instead of putting file in front of it you're putting it is as media so you're not linking back to the actual page you're linking to the the document itself and here with this upright this is where we don't want to see the the whole file name we want it to come up with with the title so and we've bolded it so even within this whole link again is a way of there's a lot of different code here that you've got the internal link taking you to to this but we've we wanted to look like this on the actual page next to this we've you know put in that little PDF logo and and and we have put in this little bit of code to take out the link so it's not it's just coming up as the little image and not actually taking you anywhere so this is different than than what we see here which is the not the the PDF but an image file of the PDF which is you know what we're seeing on on the right hand side there so let's just go back to the page I didn't save I didn't click save because I didn't actually change anything but and go back and take a look so again this links to the PDF this is just sort of like a little highlight to show that the PDF you know make it pop on the page and this actually just links not to a PDF but just to an image file you know of that PDF so you know what you're you're seeing so does that make sense if I've sort of thrown a lot of stuff out there let me pause for a second just to see if it's making sense about the idea that uploading any additional media whether it's a PDF or a word document or an image goes into the library and then once you've created that library page you use that and there are different ways that you can link and present to it on the page that making sense okay and again I go I went through it really fast but you know remember that you have that sort of cheat sheet text on the page and that you know you can always look into any other Wiki page to you know to see how their code works and you know and just cut and paste that so okay so let's go back into our bloom page and just talk a little bit more about links so let's see if we can find another well again just for the purposes of our of working on this let's say we want to put in a link to to this abstract on our page let's pop back into our editing mode and we're gonna say okay so this link is not one that is on our in within our wiki this is an external link so we're gonna do we're gonna put in the code for an external link and then we're gonna paste in that so again we're putting in we're putting in the address where it's going and then we're also putting in the alias now let's see if I did this right because there's different ways to format the internal links and external links and you know if you haven't done this in a while you can sometimes get it a little bit wrong so hmm okay so I'm not gonna click on it right now because I'm in preview mode and I won't have saved it but it seems like it's working it's come up here the way to do it for an internal link doesn't involve this space it involves this bracket or this sort of upright line which gets a little confusing when you have eyes after it but let's see if I've if I've gotten myself confused well actually that looks even better so here let's go to save page and see if that works we do there so somehow something got corrupted on the way so it's you know it's a good habit eventually to check your links and make sure that they they all work properly but going back to our editing mode you'll see that with you know some of these links here let's see where is a good one so this is you know again a double brackets an internal link to our mold and biological infestation page this is another internal link and here we have the external link and again a space and then this is the text that you're actually gonna see so let's just take a look at that again we're gonna be looking for clarifying the haze so here's how you know how it came out again here the link is embedded so if you want to make your life a little easier and one of the other things that you can do is you can use the little link with a wig button so here it actually you know sort of lays it all out for you are you are you doing this to a wiki page meaning within our site or to an external web page and here you would put in the the target page meaning the address that you want to get to or the the full title name of the page in our wiki and then basically how you want that to appear you know whatever caption so so here let's just say we want let's see if there's anything else that we want to link to in our wiki on bloom I bet there is maybe not this is coming up let's do let's do an advanced search okay so maybe we want to link to the PMG in painting page so again this is our full title easiest thing is just to copy it and so we're gonna say that this is where we want to go and this is it recognizes it as an internal link and we're gonna say painting page and so well I put it in here but you'll see that it already put in the the full page title of where you need to go the brackets around it and then this little upright bar and and our caption title so that's the nice thing to in using the the little link button to it means that you don't need to remember which you know which number of brackets and whether you use a space or whether you use an upright so these are a couple of also the different ways of formatting other things the picture gallery which is different than you know pictures if you have a number of pictures it's another way of having them come up and the table so tables I'm not really going to go into because it takes a lot of time but you're seeing what what a table looks like here they're they're sort of I numbing and if you forget any of your little dashes and and uprights and you'll get something funky going on but you know again this is just sort of this is the kind of thing that conservators excel at you know looking at something carefully and being able to to reproduce it so but just know that there is ways to do you know that simplified doing tables but what I think is mostly easy is you know to copy and paste you know a table that looks looks right and media wiki is is you know sort of a common language there are different protocols for let's say editing on Wikipedia and there are various other widgets and plugins that different sites have so not everything that works on Wikipedia will work on our wiki but if there's you know some really cool bit of coding that you're seeing on another media wiki site and it's not working on ours and you know you try it you can shoot me an email and say you know hey I want to be able to you know do this wise why isn't this working there's a couple of advanced bits of functionality that we'd like to have but it would require us doing some upgrades to our server and we're not quite ready to do that yet but but I do maintain a list of you know sort of our you know our wish list of things that we want to be able to do so just know that if you're seeing some capacity elsewhere and it's not working for you let me know okay the other thing is that that there is the citation there's different ways that the citations are are used and that's a great way of you know another good thing to sort of check around and surf around the different pages to to see one of them will you know sort of upload the links and create like an end notes or you know footnote so but I'm not going to go into that right now because I want to discuss a few other things like like categories so you'll see down at the bottom here we have this category prefix for for lexicon so everything that is a lexicon term here should have this category and let's go back sorry to to special pages and I'm going to show you a little bit more about categories meanwhile have I saved this page I haven't but here let's so you'll see this is all the sort of stuff that we know we've been adding now now let's um take a look at special pages because there's some important stuff here for you to know about okay so the first thing that you'll want to know is that you know if you need to reset your password after you get your automated password that you'll do in special pages and you'll you will have slightly different links coming up here with your level of permissions but but there's a lot of cool stuff you can sort of check on on statistics and sort of what are the most linked to pages you but some of the the most important things are to look at the list of categories so here you'll also see some of these categories are red meaning that their page has not actually been you know used they may have been linked to but there's nothing on that page but let's go to one of the better category pages and if you go into add a category for a new page so for instance you know any paintings new page for paintings you'll want to probably put let's see do we have we have paintings so that you can see that there are 30 pages here and this page doesn't have any text but anytime you add a category link to a page and it generally goes down at the bottom of the page and it's it will automatically add it to this you know running list so this is a nice way of you know quickly jumping or knowing you know which pages you might want to cross link to but the thing and again you'll see this has the the category you know prefix up here one of the things so that's neat about the category pages is that you can add content to them you know just like you would any other kind of page so let's look at the molded fungi page which Susie Morgan did a really nice job of showing how a category page could be used so she added some basic introductory text and some links and you know images and and all sorts of things and then this is this automatic listing of the different pages that's generated by adding that category tag so this is a way of sort of easily gathering all the stuff on one topic together and so what I really am hoping that we'll start seeing more of is that instead of instead of every specialty group writing a page on you know mold and including sort of all this general information that we can have you know one general you know one page on mold that has like let's say all the general information in the health and safety and stuff that's common across our specialty groups and then it will link to those individual pages which talk about treatment of you know moldy artifacts or items or you know other particular repercussions or how we recognize it or how you know what what the definition is there all of those kinds of things so the category pages will hopefully help us stop reinventing the wheel you know on some of this text and have a little bit of a better hierarchy I think let's go back to some of the other you know things where we have let's see emergency emergency response and recovery so there has been some effort also to clean up the list of categories you can create you know a new category just by putting the category tag at the bottom let's see what's down here so this has photographic materials and in painting are the two categories that were added here but you probably will want to check the category list just to make sure that you know you didn't put down it exhibits and conservation or exhibition planning and there's already an exhibit planning you know so we want to try and use terms that have already been created rather than you know having slight variations on terms unless there's you know a reason so I think we have emergency response and let's just see did we think we got rid of disaster response so we wanted to make sure that you know everything was using you know one term so you know this this has a little bit of text here let's see who was smart and added that so Stephanie did a good job in adding that and probably when we were calling the list of categories okay so so adding a category tag to you know to a page is also essential because what it will do is let's go back to our library page is that it will also help ensure that this sort of breadcrumb trail is set up this is created when based on where you are linked to within a page but also by the categories that are you know so this is within objects and so that's how it generates this automatic quick way of jumping back up through the sort of hierarchy of page links so let's just pop back into our edit mode and see if there's anything else that we didn't cover and we have our formatting issues we have our external and internal links and we have our media can you think of any questions that you might have I feel like it's you know I feel you really covered basics well and I just will sort of have to do some clicking around and experimenting and saying how other people did things with the code but it seems pretty straightforward actually more so than I was expecting so that's great okay that is good so let me just show you one other page that's good to know about it's here under navigation you have this current events and so this is where we've put a bunch of tips from previous wiki editathons and other programs I'm quite behind in adding some of the things here some of the updates but you'll see a little bit about like why is the summary important how do I indent let's jump down to that one so you know indenting versus you know doing the bulleted lists how to do the notification of updates and so you'll see remember when you edit or start a page it'll automatically check off that whether you want to watch that page so up at the top here you have a watch list and so here you can actually go in and edit your you know edit your watch list so these are you know all pages that I've edited or created or watching so you can you know take that out and if you want to be emailed up here in your preferences that's where you're going to put in the email that that it should send to when you have when changes are made to any pages that you're watching okay so again this this current events page has a lot of sort of useful bits and pieces especially you know I'd say check back there for the adding images and also the bit on citations this is one of our newer bits embedding that the YouTube preview window which makes pages look a lot more fun and so here on the citations you'll see that there's this is that one doesn't look like it's been updated so I'll have to go back and check check about that one a little bit here about you know audience for the wiki removing links to images so this is another really good one if you haven't been working on things for a while to you know go back and and check on and then the last thing you know just again the the main page on the getting started also has some links that either go to internal links on our pages or other media wiki help pages in terms of adding images and citations and some of that mm-hmm okay well I I look forward to to seeing what what you get up to on the wiki and hope that this is you know sort of helpful in getting started the one thing that I didn't cover actually and before I let you go we're just going maybe we'll just touch on that is again we were editing in a page that was already created but let's go quickly down to to paintings and and say okay well here's our contents maybe we want to add another appendix here so and what you're also seeing here is that if we go into the edit mode up top that will open up the editing window for the whole page but sometimes on a long page it's possible with all the coding to sort of get lost in there and so in any section again if you're using those headers and it will give you the opportunity to to edit within just one section so we're just gonna let's say click here and so you can see it becomes a little bit more manageable and we're going to so we have an indent we have a bullet and now we're gonna create PSG stretchers and strainers appendix for and we're gonna just show the preview on this one so you'll see it's added that to to our list oh what did I do here PSG ah I see what I did okay so this is actually so this is a sort of like a renaming this is actually how the page was probably originally loaded into our wiki site here on the left but now we don't need all of this you know it's sort of part of the header under stretchers and strainers so we want to just simplify how this looks on the page so again we're gonna put in our code here and put in sort of our alias so you'll see I've now created a link to a new page it's read because it doesn't exist and we know if I hit save page and follow it to that then it's gonna open directly into that editing window and it's gonna allow us to start creating that page so again once you're ready to start creating new pages you know it's the same as creating any other internal link if you link to something you know a page that you know exists and it comes up read it's a sign that you got something on that page title just a little bit wrong so you have to go back and once it's you know the correct link it'll come up blue so the one thing I encourage you to do is that any as you see here you know they've set up these sort of aliases to slim down an original page name but the we can I have the ability to delete I don't think you have the ability to actually delete a page we can always delete a page in and create a new page with a proper name but when you're starting a new page you know take a few minutes to sort of think about you know what is going in the page name making sure that there isn't a you know a page with that name already because that is the one bit of code that you can't actually change you can set up the alias we can set up redirects there's a lot of you know other things that you can do but making sure that you you know that you get the page name right can sometimes save some headaches you know down the road so I'm going to delete this because that is not a necessary change and in fact if I just click it's going to tell me that I'm leaving the page which is fine and you'll see that that that appendix doesn't actually exist so quick question with relation to the paintings page specifically actually a few questions which I was hoping we could go off recording yes so why don't I stop the recording and we'll stay on but just as a reminder for anyone watching this recording down the road if you have any questions please be in touch with your wiki chair or with me anyone who's working on the wiki also has access to the AIC wiki listserv and that's a great way to announce you know new pages and have people take a look at them you know just because we put something up online and just because the search function in the wiki is robust doesn't mean that anyone will find it or know about it to you know to go look for it and so I encourage you to let people know when you've added something that you want some eyes on but it's also a great place to ask questions because someone may get back to you even faster than I do and there's a couple of other people who have wiki editing capacity beyond you know what I do so so I encourage you to you know feel free to use that list so thank you very much for joining us today