Introduction to wikis Open Firefox and go to: https://mw.brookes.ac.uk/display/Dashboard/Home Login to the wiki dashboard using your p number and wiki password. Find Media Workshop Training Wiki on the dashboard list. Firstly please change your password From the View menu, choose Account, Preferences. Select the Edit Profile tab. Click on the Password link. Enter your current password followed by your new password twice (this should match your PIP or email password). Then click on the Save button and go back to the Media Workshop Training Wiki. Creating a wiki page Check that you are on the correct parent page and then click on Edit and then New and Page… from the drop down menu. Highlight the text in the top box and type in your name. Then click on Save.
Editing a wiki page Click on Edit and then Edit this page… from the drop down menu. Type in some content about how you see wikis being used in your School/Directorate. Try formatting different parts of the text using the text editing buttons from the toolbar.
Highlight some text, click on the down arrow at the end of the Format box and choose an option from the drop down list. Insert a table after your text by clicking on the Insert table button. Choose the number of rows and columns you want to include and then click on the Insert button.
The rest of the table tools now become active where you can add or delete rows and columns. Add in two new rows below the last row and one new column to the left of the first column. Click on the Preview tab to view your changes without saving them. Click on the Rich Text tab to return to making edits and click Save when you have finished. The table feature is a bit limited but if you have a more complicated table you can create it in Word and copy and paste it into the page you are editing instead. Adding attachments to wiki pages Click on Edit and then Edit this page… from the drop down menu. Place your cursor underneath the table and type in the title of your attachment or other appropriate text. Highlight it and then click on the Insert/Edit link button. Click on the Attachments tab in the Link Properties dialogue box that appears. Click on the Browse button and navigate to H:\Media Workshop Training Files\Wiki and choose Collaborative Document then click Open. Back in the Link Properties dialogue box click the Attach button. The document will now appear in a list under Name above the Attach File box. Click on the title link once (it will now appear in the Link box at the top of the dialogue box) then click OK. Preview and Save your wiki page. Adding images Click on Edit and then Edit this page… from the drop down menu. Place your cursor underneath the attachment link. Click on the Insert Image button. The Image Properties dialogue box will appear. Click on Browse and navigate to H:\Media Workshop Training Files\Wiki and choose mediacentre then click Open. Back in the Image Properties dialogue box click the Attach button. The image will now appear as a thumbnail under the Attach File box. Click on the thumbnail once (it will now appear in the File Name box at the top of the dialogue box) then click OK. Preview and Save your wiki page. Any further editing of images needs to be done in an image package such as Photoshop. If you make changes you will need to attach the amended image as before to the page and point the link to the amended files instead. Creating links Place your cursor underneath the image and type in ‘Brookes website link’. Highlight it and then click on the Insert/Edit link button. In the Link Properties dialogue box click on the External Link tab. The highlighted text will appear in the Alias box.
Type the web address www.brookes.ac.uk into the Enter hyperlink box and then click on OK. Preview and Save your wiki page. Adding comments Navigate back to https://mw.brookes.ac.uk/display/mwtraining/Wikis. Click on one of the other group members’ wiki pages from the hierarchy at the bottom of the page. Click on Edit, New and then Comment from the drop down menu.
Type your response to your colleagues notes about how they see the wiki being used in their School/Directorate. Once again try formatting different parts of the text using the text editing buttons from the toolbar. Add an attachment and an image to the comment. Click the Post button. Extras View the changes that you have made to your wiki page. Click on the View menu, choose This page and then Page information from the drop down menu. Click on View changes to see a list of the recent changes. Click on View page history to undo any saved changes you have made.
To set up a watch on your wiki page click on View, This page and then Watch this page from the drop down menu. Now ask your neighbour to make a change to your page. Open your email account and you should see an automated email in your Inbox from the wiki with the details of what they have added. Remove the Watch by clicking on View, This page and then Unwatch this page from the drop down menu. Add a News item to your page. Click on Edit, New and then News… from the drop down menu. Add some information giving details of a meeting to inform staff about the wiki. News pages are not linked by default to a particular page.
To view them or make further edits to one, click on View, Other Pages and News from the drop down menu. All news pages for the space will be listed. Click on the title link of the one you want to edit. This will take you to the individual News item page. Amend the time of your meeting. Click on Edit, This page… from the drop down menu and then click Save once you have made your changes.
Now delete the News item. Click on View, Other Pages and News from the drop down menu. Select the appropriate item as before then click on Edit, Remove this news…