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HOW TO CREATE AN ARTICLE FOR THE UPDATE WIKI
WEBSITES
http//update.jyu.fi/index.php/Main_Page
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Contents

• How to get started - Log in / Account
• Step 1) How to Add New Entries Create Page
• Step 2) How to Format your Entries
• Step 3) How to Upload Pictures etc.
• Step 4) How to Insert and Format Uploaded
  Files
• Step 5) How to Link to External Pages
• News Categories
• Online Help

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How to get started Login / Create an account
Necessary precondition you have to be logged
in ! How to create an account

• for the first trials, you may use the standard
  login
• in order to be able to identify the authors, it
  would be good if everyone (or every institution)
  got his/her personal account - in the long run.

User name Anon Password kettu

• choose your own user name and password and
• send them to Carmen Ruffer ruffer_at_kompetenzz.de
• (or Päivi Fadjukoff paivi.fadjukoff_at_psyka.jyu.fi
  )

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How to log in Click log in / create account
Anon
kettu
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Step 1) How to add new entries

• create a short name for your article, e.g.
  ProjectRose
• to the URL of the main page, add
  /Articlename
• e.g.

http//update.jyu.fi/index.php/ArticleProjectRose

• press the return key, and you will get the
  following note

ltThere is currently no text in this page, you can
search for this page title in other pages or edit
this page.gt

• choose edit this page - and you create a new
  page
• with an empty text box

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Step 2) How to format your entries

• insert your headline and text
• add CategoryPublic (double brackets
  necessary !)
• below the text, if you want your page to be a
• public page
• - otherwise only logged-in users have access to
  it.

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Step 2) - continued How to format your entries

• enclose your headline by a triple equal
  sign
• (that will make it large and bold)
• format your text

Three inverted commas at each side of the
headline make it bold.

Two inverted commas at each side of
a word make it italic.
CategoryPublic
To obtain a line break, youll have to type
ltbr/gt (The return key doesnt work in this
regard but you might want to use it to structure
your source text optically.)
This supplement turns your article into a public
page, accessible to anyone interested.
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Step 2) - continued ..format...and save your
entry

• click ltshow previewgt before saving your entry,
• because every saved change is recorded.

For the same reason, please be careful and check
the ltThis is a minor editgt check box before
saving, if you havent made big changes.
(Otherwise the list of changes will get too long.)
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Step 3) How to upload data
Pictures, sketches, graphics etc. are very
welcome!

• on the left edge of the page, there is a
  so-called toolbox
• choose ltupload filegt (which belongs to the
  special pages,
• by the way)

- Make sure you own the publishing rights for
the pictures you use ! -
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Step 3) - continued How to upload data
Pictures, sketches, graphics etc. are very
welcome!

• under ltsource filenamegt,
• specify the file that you want to upload
• (from your own local memory)
• as ltdestination filenamegt
• give your document a significant name
• so that youll recognize it later on !
• If you want, you can also write a
• short description (ltsummarygt) of
• your files content
• finally push the button ltupload filegt

how to retrieve data
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Step 4) How to insert and format uploaded files
How to retrieve uploaded files

• in the toolbox (see left edge), choose ltspecial
  pagesgt
• then go to ltGallery of new filesgt
• which contains a list of all new files,
• so that you can look up (and copy) your files
  name

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Step 4) - continued How to insert and
format uploaded files

• Insert an image by writing image plus the file
  name
• within double squared brackets Imagename.JPG
  
• By adding one of the following commands,
• separated by a pipe , you can
• control the position of the image on the page
• ltleft, right, center, or nonegt - e.g.
  ImageScienceCats.JPGright
• resize the image to the given width in pixels
• lt___px gt - e.g. ImageScienceCats.JPG450
  px
• store some alternative description text which
  will be shown
• in case the picture can not be displayed, e.g.
• ImageScienceCats.JPG The members of the
  ScienceCats group

See also http//update.jyu.fi/index.php/Hel
pImages
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Step 5) How to link to external pages

• in order to link to external pages, you can
  simply
• enter the web address, e.g.
• http//www.espace-des-inventions.ch/index.html
• attention it is necessary to include the prefix
  lthttp//www.gt
• on the web page, the link will appear in blue

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News Categories
Your news can be published in the UPDATE
newsletter, if it is possible to assign them to
one of the following news categories
Best Practise Research Events Miscellaneous

• Best Practise
• Research
• Events
• Miscellaneous

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Online help
Any (further) questions ? - have a look at
the help pages for the MediaWiki platform ! You
will find them on http//update.jyu.fi/index.php/H
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