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Introduction
Welcome to the myLeadersip wiki help area, here you can find information about the technology behind the site and how to register and enter/edit content.
As you may already know the myLeadership site is what is referred to as a wiki. A wiki is a website in which users can edit and create content. It's an example of a range of contemporary web platforms referred to as social software enabling users to update online content directly from their web browsers. This wiki is built using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software">Open-source</a> MediaWiki platform, the same platform which underpins wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia project. If you would like more information about wikis there is no better place to start than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki">wikipedia's own entry on the topic</a>. For more information on <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/">Mediawiki see their website</a>.
Creating an account
While you can edit and create pages on this wiki without creating yourself an account we encourage you to do so we know who has edited what and when. It will help build the online community around the leadership program and foster a collaborative learning environment.
To create a new account please visit our Create_Account page which will step you through the process.
Edit your own page
Once you create an account your user name will appear at the top of the Personal tools section. This links to your own personal page on the wiki. This is a good place to begin learning how to edit pages.
Use this page to create a personal profile, add a picture and some info about yourself and what you hope to get from the program.
NOTE: when you click on the page for the first time it will open a Link to a new page ready for input, once you have entered some info and saved the page it will be created.
You will se the following text “There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page”
Click the “edit this page” hyperlink
You can find other team members pages by clicking on the View Users button in the Site Tools section. Simply click on their user names to view their pages.
Editing Tools
In MediaWiki there are two methods for editing pages.
Wiki Markup
This comprises a native text based language which can be used to format content, create links, add media etc. While it's relatively easy to learn and use, for the myLeadership wiki we have turned it off in favor of a WYSIWYG or word style editor.
For example using media wiki markup to make text bold you would type Bold text or to create a hyperlink <nowiki>link title</nowiki>
FCK Editor
We have opted to enable an extension to mediawiki called FCK Editor, this provides a word style editor to enter and edit content on each page.
In many ways you must choose one or the other on a page, wikimarkup is incompatible with the code generated by the FCK editor. We have effectively turned off wikimarkup for this wiki so you don't need to worry about it. Neverthe less there is a few wikimarkup methods that we still need to know so we can link to uploaded files on a page or embed and image.
Editing pages
To edit a page simply click the edit button 
at the top of the page or click a <nowiki>[Edit]</nowiki> button next to a section header on the page to edit that section alone.
This will open the page for editing with the FCK editor tool bar displayed at the top of the page.
>> <a target="_blank" href="http://webconf.det.nsw.edu.au/fck/">Click here</a> to see a move on using the FCK editor
Inserting an image into a wiki page
To insert an image to a page the image needs to be uploaded to the mediawiki library and embedded in the wiki page.
This can be done by following these steps
1. Enter the following code using the filename of the image you would like to upload to the library and insert.
<nowiki>
</nowiki>
Use this format if you would like to left or right justify the the image
<nowiki>
2. Save the page
3. image:filename.jpg will appear on the page as a red hyperlink indicating the file does not exist in the library.
4. click the Link and the library upload tool will open
Click the Browse button to upload the image from your local computer.
Enter a optional summary of the image for the library
Check the watch this page option to be notified of further updates to the image
Check the ignore warnings option to bypass warning such as file size etc.
Click the upload file button
5. Once uploaded you will be taken to the library entry page for this asset. At the bottom of this page there will be a link back to the page you entered the image.
6.In future if you wish to add this image to another page simply use the same filename and it will appear on the page, you don't need to upload it again once it has been added to the library. Click on the Locate File button under the Site Tools section to find the name of your image if you have forgotten.
Uploading and linking a media file to a page
To upload an media file such as a word document, pdf etc. and link it to a page you need to upload it to the mediawiki library and embedded it in the wiki page.
This can be done by following these steps
1. Enter the following code using the filename of the media file you would like to upload to the library and insert.
<nowiki>media:filename.doc</nowiki>
Use this format if you would like to give the page link to the file a different name to the actual file name
<nowiki>Word Document</nowiki>
2. Save the page
3. media:filename.doc or the title you entered ie. Word Document will appear on the page as a red hyperlink indicating the file does not exist in the library.
4. click the Link and the library upload tool will open
Click the Browse button to upload the file from your local computer.
Enter a optional summary of the image for the library
Check the watch this page option to be notified of further updates to the image
Check the ignore warnings option to bypass warning such as file size etc.
Click the upload file button
5. Once uploaded you will be taken to the library entry page for this asset. At the bottom of this page there will be a link back to the page you placed the file.
6.In future if you wish to add this file to another page simply use the same filename and it will appear on the page, you don't need to upload it again once it has been added to the library. Click on the Locate File button under the Site Tools section to find the name of your file if you have forgotten.
Creating or linking to an existing wiki page
Click edit on a page
Enter the following code format
<nowiki>hyperlink text</nowiki>
Page title = the actual name of the page as it will be created in the mediawiki library
Hyperlink text = The text which will appear as the link to the page
If a page already exists in the library the link will goto the existing page.
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Page discussions
Every page in mediawiki has a page discussion already created.
Simply click the discussion button at the top of the page
This will take you to the discussion area (talk) for that page.
This opens a separate page for discussion associated with that page
Click the edit button to enter a comment
Enter your comment and then click the signature button to add your user details
