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Welcome to the Mobile Connect Wiki Help page!'
Below are answers to frequently asked questions about the Mobile Connect wiki. If you don't see the answer to your question below, please contact Angela Bole at abole@techweb.com.
Creating a user account
The Mobile Connect wiki can be viewed by anyone who visits the site. However, community members who want to edit or build new pages will need to create a user account.
This wiki is monitored. Inappropriate material and/or material that does not pertain to the discussion surrounding mobile development will be pulled down.
Proper etiquette
Since Mobile Connect is a community of people who generally want to get to know each other, it's better etiquette to select a username based on your actual name rather than an alias. For example, the event organizers picked the usernames David.Berlind and Angela.Bole. A dot is not required between your first and last name: CamelCase, where you mash your first and last name together and capitalize each is a good choice, too.
To create a user account, click here.
Creating new pages
Red Ink, the good kind
Almost all the text you see in red in this wiki is clickable. But red means something special. It means it's a link to a page that doesn't exist yet. For example, if you just created your account on this wiki and you're logged in, then when you look near the upper-right hand corner of this Web page, you should see your username in red. That means it's clickable. As with any red text, when you click on it, it will take you to a brand new page that you can edit and load with your own text. At the top of any new page should be four tabs: article, discussion, edit and watch. You'll see the name of the page and you'll probably see some text that says "There is currently no text on this page." So, one way to get to a new page is to click on red links.
Crating a new page by its URL
Using the browser address bar to enter a URL to a new page is an easy way to start the new page process. Pages on the Mobile Connect wiki follow the following format:
Pages on the Mobile Connect wiki use the following format:
http://wiki.mobileconnectevent.com/index.php/PageName (where "PageName" would be replaced with the actual page name)
If go to the address bar in your browser and enter a URL that conforms to the above format, substituting your new page name in CamelCase for "PageName", then hit "enter", you'll create a blank page to edit as you see fit
Creating a new page by Search
Another way to start a new page is to use its search function to generate a red link for you. Simply go to the search box on the left, enter the new name for your page (again, using CamelCase), and press the Go button. When the search finds nothing, you'll see the sentence "You can create this page" on the results page and a part of it will be a red link. Clicking on that red link will take you to a new page by that name.
Linking to other pages
Within the wiki
Linking text from one wiki page to another is relatively easy.
In order to link to a page that doesn't exisit yet, place double brackets -- [[ ]]-- around the description of what you'd like to link.
Let's say you're editing your profile page on the Mobile Connect wiki and you want to link some text on it to a page that will describe a discussion you plan to propose during the event. But let's say that description page doesn't exist yet and you want to finish editing your profile page. First, if you're not there already, go to your profile page (by clicking your user ID), and on the top, click the "edit" tab. This puts you into the editing mode for that page. Now, in the editing window, type in the following:
My name is John Doe and I'll be proposing a discussion on security at Mobile Connect
Now, let's say you want to link the part that says "a discussion on security" to a page named DoeSecurityDiscussion (did you notice the use of CamelCase?). To do that, you would follow the following format:
[[DoeSecurityDiscussion|text that should be linked to that page]]
The most important parts to make note of are:
- the double left brackets ([[) at the beginning
- the vertical bar that separates the name of the page and the text that gets linked (usually generated by pressing shift-backslash on your keyboard)
- the double right brackets at the end ((]])
So, here's how you'd enter the John Doe text from above (using wiki format) when editing a wiki page:
My name is John Doe and I'll be proposing [[DoeSecurityDiscussion|a discussion on security]] at Mobile Connect
Now, provided that nobody has created page named DoeSecurityDiscussion on the Mobile Connect wiki, the line above should appear with a red link once you click the "Save Page" button at the bottom of the editing page).
My name is John Doe and I'll be proposing a discussion on security at Mobile Connect
Then, as with all other red linked text, you just need to click on it to edit the new page.
Outside the wiki
Linking text from one wiki page to a url outside the wiki is also easy.
In order to link to a page outside the Mobile Connect wiki, place single brackets -- [ ]-- around the description of what you'd like to link.
In the editing window, type in the following:
My name is John Doe and I work for TechWeb.
Now, let's say you want to link the part that says "TechWeb" to the TechWeb homepage, a page outside the Mobile Connect wiki. To do that, you would follow the following format:
[http://www.techweb.com/home text that should be linked to that page]
The most important parts to make note of are:
- the single left bracket ([) at the beginning
- the single space that separates the url for the page from the text that gets linked
- the single right bracket at the end ((])
So, here's how you'd enter the John Doe text from above (using wiki format) when editing a wiki page:
My name is John Doe and I work for [http://www.techweb.com/home TechWeb].
After clicking the "Save Page" button at the bottom of the editing page, you should see the link as:
My name is John Doe and I work for TechWeb.
Wiki markup
A great resource for wiki markup can be found on Wikipedia's How to Edit page.
