Wiki: Edit, Create, Organize

Edit, create and organize articles are three actions you’ll do on any wiki website.

Edit An Article

To edit, click on the edit link located on the options bar above an article’s headline. You’ll be taken to “edit mode” which will allow you to edit all information on the article on the webpage. While in “edit mode”, you can insert simple text formatting (bold, italics, underline) handled by pMCode. When you are finished editing, click “Update” and your edits will be published immediately.

Create an Article

A wiki works by assuming that when a search for an article is made with no results or when a click to article doesn’t exist, the user will want to create that article.

To add or create an article, you would first use the “Create or Find a Page” search bar to check if the article or a similar article exists. If there are no results, the wiki will ask if you want to create the article you are looking for. The edit link will appear and once clicked, your article is created and you’ll be taken to the edit mode.

While in editing mode, you may want to link this article to another. By using wiki syntax (similar to pMCode), you can easily create a new article. But instead of using single brackets, you’ll use double brackets. To create the link, the markup will look something like this:

My article wants to link to this [[article]].

When the link is clicked, the wiki will either link to the existing article or display that the article doesn’t exist giving you the opportunity to create it.

See Syntax for more details.

Organizing Articles with Categories

Assigning categories to an article is easily done in edit mode using wiki syntax. To add your article to a category the syntax will look like this:

[[Category: CATEGORY NAME]]

This will automatically assign the article to the listed category. And if the category doesn’t exist, the wiki will create it for you. To add multiple categories, you continue to add the Category code but with different category names, like so:

[[Category: CATEGORY NAME]]
[[Category: CATEGORY NAME 2]]

The article will be assigned to both categories. And if you want to add sub-categories to main/parent category, it would like this:

[[Category: CATEGORY NAME::SUB-CATEGORY NAME]]

Now the article will be assigned to all categories and sub categories listed.

See Syntax for more details.