User:Jnobbie/Sandbox/Help:WikiUniversity Wikitext 1.Home

LESSON STRUCTURE Lessons2.png This is a set of short lessons to teach you the fundamentals of Wikitext. Wikitext is the computer language of FamilySearch Wiki as well as all other Wikis. The lessons are designed to help you learn the language in small easy-to-digest bites. The exercise and/or questions at the end of each lesson are designed to help you learn how to apply the principles taught in the lessons. Please do not pass them up. The lessons will help you to assimilate the knowledge necessary for you to edit and/or add content to FamilySearch Wiki. The left sidebar will give you some idea of the items we will cover in these Wikitext lessons. WHAT IS WIKITEXT? Wikitext is the underlying language of all Wikis, whether it be FamilySearch Wiki, Wikipedia or Wikimedia. However Wikitext has very limited capabilities. Basically, all it can do is put black letters on a white background. It is very limited in what it can do to make a page interesting to look at. For that we need CSS Cascading Style Sheets. CSS - CASCADING STYLE SHEETS Css.jpg These are series of codes which can add a little character to a page such as borders and background colors. CSS basically controls how a page will look to our patrons. HTML - LANGUAGE OF THE INTERNET HTML.jpg All internet sites including FamilySearch Wiki are based on the programming language called HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. There is a separate course for HTML programming. Wikitext is actually a simplified version of HTML. HTML will give you more capabilities than Wikitext. SANDBOX PAGE Sandbox.jpg If you have not done so already, please create a sandbox page where you can practice your Wikitext lessons. To create a sandbox page for practicing enter this into the search box: "user:your user name/sandbox/name of page you want to practice your Wikitext" For example "User:johnsmith/sandbox/wikitext homework". After you have typed in the name you want for your sandbox practice page, hit the enter key or click search icon on left side of search box. A list will then appear and your entry will appear at the top of the list in red. The red just means that your sandbox page has not been created yet. Click on that "red link," and a blank edit box will appear with the name of the sandbox page you just created displayed at the top. As soon as you enter something in the edit box and save it, it will become a permanent page. This will be the place to save your homework or to refresh your memory when needed from time to time. TRY THESE OUT. . . . Tests.gif Quick Quiz What is CSS? A. Code to give character to wiki pages B. Change color of text C. Add background color to text D. All of the above What is Wikitext? A. Simplified form of HTML B. Language for all of the Internet C. Language only for Wikipedia D. None of the above What is HTML? A. Stands for Hyper Text Markdown Language B. Language for all of the Internet C. Created from wikitext D. All of the above