Working in the Wiki Spring 2008
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Please use this page to discuss questions regarding the Wiki assignment. Please do not delete or replace its contents. It serves as a record of questions asked and answered.--Dr. Moss 15:24, 15 January 2008 (EST)
One of you has discovered an unusual way to make a page explode! On our system, if you try to use the "thumb" attribute with your images as I describe on my user page User:Byrne, AND your image is very large (this one was 2,000 pixels), the page you are editing simply fails to display.
I suspect it's a bug in our local installation, but in any case I'd ask that you re-size your images before uploading. There are a lot of easy (or not easy but feature-filled) programs to manipulate images. You can find lots of free (or not) applications using a web search. I like Gimp2 for Windows. It is also available for other platforms. I just found a free, on-line resource that will re-size your images on the web, resize2mail. That service would do for this simple operation. --Bruce 10:57, 11 January 2008 (EST)
I am trying to edit my use page with reference however only one line shows up and rest of line that I wrote does not get saved. when I didnt have references everything was that I wrote was there but not after adding reference. please help.--Patels19 21:37, 12 January 2008 (EST)
Shradda--If you feel you messed up your page when making an edit, then click the "history" tab at the top, and go back to an earlier version before you made the fatal change. (It is always helpful to write a brief summary after making an edit so you can find your changes easily). Select the one you want and click edit, then save the page (after filling in the summary!). That will return you to the working version.
Now, as far as entering references go, my advice is to be sure you "close your tags", that is make sure that anything that begins with <ref> ends with </ref>. Notice the subtle difference between the opening and closing tags. --Dr. Moss 20:16, 13 January 2008 (EST)
Hello again, In my discussion of Fair Use, I wrote something and I can not view that!! How is it possible???? I am really having hard time working with this. Please help.
- To answer your question, I would look at the history tab to compare versions and see if a collaborator had eliminated some text and I would also look at the code (in the edit tab) to see if some mistake in markup was keeping content from being displayed. I writing this response, I am able to do that by opening up the Main Page in a new window (right-click on Main Page link at the left) and then navigating to the Fair Use page. When I compared the two versions of materials you were editing and then saved at 04:12 and then 04:15 on 14 January, I saw that you moved one paragraph from one spot to another. Erica Pitts made a few additions later that day. Does that help? --Dr. Byrne 10:52, 14 January 2008 (EST)
- When I recommended that you compare two versions, you may wonder how to interpret the diff page, when you select two versions on a history page and then ask the wiki to compare selected versions. A nice explanation of that comparison page is provided us by wikimedia, the software developer.--Dr. Byrne 11:16, 14 January 2008 (EST)
How do you do footnotes. I saw it on one of the pages. I think it involves the use of [1] tags. --johnnyk 18:25, 14 January 2008 (EST) I figured it out. Use a ref>and /ref> tags like [2] Then at end of document make a notes section and add a "references" tag between a < />. Footnotes are then generated automatically.
- That's right. I also demo the technique on User:Byrne.
[edit] Notes:
John Keubler --johnnyk 19:07, 14 January 2008 (EST)
What are we supposed to do for the web assignment for today? i cant find any links or anything for the NCBI workshop. thanks--Christina 08:43, 23 January 2008 (EST)
- The exercise will be posted by 5pm. Look for it at the class website--Dr. Byrne 10:18, 23 January 2008 (EST)
