Login to your Wetpaint account

A temporary "Writer" level account has been added to the Digital Reference Shelf Wiki. This account will allow you to contribute content and links, edit pages, view page histories, and add comments and pages. Writer level accounts have certain restrictions on them. With this account you will not be able to perform such tasks as moving pages, deleting pages, locking pages and reverts (these features are reserved for "moderator" and "administrator" level accounts). Login using the account Learning2.0 and the password Mills123. The login link is located in the uppermost right hand corner of this page next to "Settings" (note you do not need to hit "apply to be a writer", you can edit this wiki with the Learning2.0 account). If you would like to become a regular contributor to Digital Reference Shelf follow the steps in “signing up for an account” otherwise continue on to “adding pages”.

Adding pages

You can add/create pages using the Page Toolbox that is located on the right side of the screen. Simply click "Add a new page," and follow these easy steps:

Step 1:
- Give your page a name! If you want to devote a page to newspapers, then, by all means, name the page "Newspapers".

Step 2:
- Give your page a location within the wiki!
- Simply click on the "Change Page Location" link, which is located immediately below the "Enter Page Name" option.
- Note: Try to place the page in a reasonably intuitive location; for example, if you would like the newspaper page to be accessible from the DigitalReferenceShelf home page, select "Home" as the location. Or, if you would like the newspaper page to be a subpage of another page simply select the appropriate page. In other words, if you wanted to place the newspaper page on this page, select Tutorial.

Step 3:
- Now add your page!
- Once you have given your page a name and a location, simply click, as you might guess, "Add Page".

***Note your page's location in the Navigation bar on the left side of the screen.
***If your page does not appear, try to refresh the browser!

Adding content

To add and/or edit text, simply click the EasyEdit button. Use the EasyEdit Toolbar to adjust alignment, add bullet points, italicize the text, and perform other formatting functions. And, of course, use the EasyEdit button to add your great content!

Adding links to NON-MORRIS records

In order to add links, you will, once again, need to use the EasyEdit function. Once you have entered the EasyEdit mode, you should see a "Link" option in the EasyEdit Toolbar. Simply highlight the text that you would like to turn into a link and click that "Link" button. Copy and paste the URL of the page that you want to link to into the "Link To" box. Presto!

Adding links to MORRIS records

In order to properly link to a MORRIS record, you will need to delete the session number from the MORRIS URL.

1. So, enter the EasyEdit mode,
2. Write text that describes the record you want to link to. So, if you wanted to link to the MORRIS record of the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary, you might elect to use the phrase "Oxford English Dictionary" or the acronym "OED".
3. Highlight the text. So, highlight "Oxford English Dictionary" or "OED", depending on which textual description you decide to use.
4. Click the "+Link" button on the EasyEdit Toolbar.
5. Open a new tab or window and go to the MORRIS record of the Oxford English Dictionary. If you glance at the URL, you should see a session number towards the beginning of the URL. Delete the text between .jsp? and &profile (the bolded text in the example below). Otherwise, the link may not work properly on public terminals.
6. Copy the editted URL into the "Link To" box (i.e., the URL without the session number).
7. Click "Add Link".

Example:

http://morris.mcmaster.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1X653M767708P.829&profile.

Viewing page history

Each page that has been editted has a page history, which is accessible in the pinkish box located at the bottom of this page immediately before the page commments area. Click on the "complete history" link, and a history of edits will appear with the most recent edit first.Try comparing the page revisions by simply checking the appropriate boxes and click "compare." Any differences in content between the two compared versions are highlighted in red and blue. This feature will allow you to compare edits to the page across multiple revisions.


Practice pages

Test 1
Test 2
Test 3
Test 4
Test 5
Test 6
Test 7

Try adding some content:

Now that you have the basics down, try adding some content - explore the organization of the wiki and try adding a link (to another online resource), a comment, a category - whatever you think might be useful.

Once you have finished looking at Wetpaint & PBWiki add an entry to your blog. some questions to consider: What features of the software did you like or dislike? What differences in features did you find between this and PBWiki (or other wiki's you examined)