Instructions

Registering

• Create an Account: click here
  • Make up a user name, something like FirstLast would be nice, but anything works
  • Provide a valid email (you will receive an activation email at this address)
• Note: Anti-SPAM software will prevent creating accounts with fake email addresses or from IP-addresses that are used by SPAMers (for example from VPN-connections).

Making a change to an existing text

• Log into the Wiki, check the top right corner, or click here
  There is a "Keep me logged in" check box to stay logged in for future sessions.
• Navigate to a page you want to change
• Click either "Edit" or "Edit source".
  • "Edit" launches a comfortable editor that allows you to make changes via buttons to change the font or insert links etc.
  • "Edit source" launches a raw editor that allows you to see and edit the markup of the text. You need to know which character or tag does what. This requires some learning however it is sometimes easier for changes that involve changing the size of an image or its location or the flow of text.
    For help: click here
  • Click "Save"
  • There is no way you can mess things up. All versions of a page are stored, the admin can fix it (email:wiki-admin@rv10.org). Also, if pictures are not where they should be, don't worry, somebody will fix it.
• Note: Saving changed pages may potentially be rejected by the anti-SPAM software (for example if they contain links to external content, even if they were already on the page and you did not introduce new links). If this happens without real reason, please send an email to the Wiki admin at wiki-admin@rv10.org and ask for your username to be white-listed for edits. Once you are white-listed, all your edits will go through.

Adding a picture to a page

• You have two choices:
  1. Upload the image from the top level menu and name it or click here. Then in a second step, edit a page and refer to the named image (see step 2, just choose your image instead of uploading it).
  2. Edit a page in "Edit" mode (not "Edit source"), then place the cursor where you want to insert the image.
     Unfortunately, on some pages, "edit" doesn't work, you will get an error message. "Edit source" is then the only option. See the format rules in the next paragraph.
     • Choose Insert -> "Images and media"
     • Choose the "Upload" tab on the top (or select an image that was uploaded beforehand, skip the next upload steps then).
     • Click "Select a File"
     • Check "This is my own work"
     • Click Upload
     • Enter a description (anything works, will not be shown)
     • Click Save
     • Click "Use this image"
     • Select "Advanced" tab on top
     • Uncheck "Wrap around this item"
     • Change image type to "Basic"
     • Change image size to "Custom"
     • Override the first number of the size and enter 300
     • Click "Insert"

• If you want the image to stay with the paragraph above it, go into "Edit source" mode and find where the image has been inserted. Then separate the image reference with <br> from the last line, for example: xxxx last line of paragraph.<br>[[File:yyy.jpg|300x300px]] (the vertical line character "|" separates the name of the file to the left from the size to the right)

Adding a document to a page

• Upload the file from the top level menu on the left: "Upload file" or click here.
• Edit the page in "Edit source" mode and enter the link for example for the file xxx.pdf as [[:File:xxx.pdf|xxx.pdf]] (the vertical line character "|" separates the name of the file on the left from the link text to the right of it). Note: the File tag has a leading and a trailing colon, ":File:".

Creating a new page

• New pages are created by inserting a link to the new page before it exists. After saving the page with the new link, the page will show the new link in red. Clicking on that link will create the page (the Wiki will open an editor for the new page. You can switch between "Edit" and "Edit source" as you like).
• Links to pages are enclosed in double square brackets, e.g. [[New Page]]