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Specific Questions?

This page is a directory of pages in the Help namespace. If you have a specific question see: Wikiversity:Questions

Need help with jargon?

Wikiversity participants use many technical terms that have special meaning within the Wikiversity project; see the glossary of terms.

Editing

• Editing tutorial
• Help:Editing $\Leftrightarrow$ This page has excellent tables showing the basic formattingoptions.
• Help:Editing FAQ
• Help:Editing tips and tricks
• Help:Edit summary
• Help:How to edit a page
• Help:Editing toolbar - Shortcut buttons for editing

Making pages

• Help:Starting a new page - See start a new page function at bottom of this page.
• Help:Page name
• Help:Moving, renaming and removing pages
• Help:Portal - about making, and especially about editing, portals.

Links

• Help:Link
• Help:Piped link
• Help:Interwiki linking
• Help:URL

Making pages pretty and interesting

• Help:Color tables -- Allowed colors on the internet.
• Help:Icons -- Icons for instructors - Sources of great icons for Wikiversity pages
• Help:Style Sheet 1 - Basic elements of colorful formatting styles for lesson pages
• Help:eMail for Teachers -- Wikiversity eMail coding for instructors - How to set up email for students to contact teachers, etc.
• Help:Quiz-Simple -- How to use the quiz extension (simplified)
• Help:Quiz -- How to use the quiz extension (detailed)
• Help:CSS at Wikiversity -- How to apply the features of Style Sheets on Wikiversity pages.
• Help:Table -- Simple tables
• Help:Table2 -- Samples of tables that you can apply on Wikiversity pages.

Other help topics

• Help:Category
• Help:Diff
• Help:List
• Help:Formula
• Help:HTML in wikitext
• Help:Talk page
• Help:Variable - This is a list of variables that can be used in the wikitext.
• Help:Wiki markup examples
• Help:Wikitext quick reference
• Help:Media Files - How to work with media files in Wikiversity (JPG, PNG, PDF, OGG)
• Help:Syndication - How to receive notice when an individual Wikiversity page is edited.
• Help:Table - Useful tips for making tables.
• Help:Template - Find useful templates
• Help:Error Messages

Page layout help

• Help:Color schemes -- Page layouts for instructors - Rough samples of lesson pages
• Help:Color schemes 2 -- Page layouts for instructors - Better quality lesson pages
• Help:Color schemes 3 -- A simple lesson page layout for instructors. (This is better than the two above.)
• Help:Color schemes 3b -- Color variations that can be used in Help:Color schemes 3
• Help:Color schemes 4 -- A colorful index for language pages (currently used for Spanish/Spanish One.
• Help:Color schemes 6 -- Yet another simple lesson page layout for instructors

Outside Help

• Wikimedia's Help with Magic Words
• Wikipedia's HTML Web Color Tables - A good chart of the colors you can use for your lesson pages. (Note: Do not use color numbers; use only color names. Each browser works differently with numbers.)
• Wikipedia's syntax for posting images on a page
• Wikipedia:Media help
• Media help at WikiCommons
• Wikipedia:Media help Help getting OGG files to play on your computer.
• Meta:ParserFunctions WikiMedia parser funtions if you want to do IF statemetns.
• Help:Advanced templates

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