MEDG421

MediaWikiCreate & Edit a Wiki Page

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MEDG421 Wiki Projects

1. Concept page

2. Gene report

Each will be created in the dedicated MEDG421 wiki system

http://burgundy.cmmt.ubc.ca/medg421/wiki/

These slides will be posted at above URL

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In the next 20 mins:

• Create a page• Create sections

– Table of contents• Links to external sites• Upload and display

images• Add references• Format lists• Get help

Sample content for this demo taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Src_(gene)

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Create Account and Login

Username format: first letter of first name + lastnamee.g. Stefanie Butland = sbutland

User page editable only by you

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1. URL name becomes new page name2. Edit page to create content

(non-”user” pages can be edited by anyone)

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Create Gene Page: Type Novel URL

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Add Text, Create Sections

plain text== heading ===== subheading ===

== References ==

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plain text

== heading ==

=== subheading ======= subsubheading ====

TOC auto-generated if > 3 headings

Can edit individual sections now

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Create links to external sites

format:[ URL <space> text to appear ]

example:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Src_(gene) Src in Wikipedia]

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Create links to external sites

format:[ URL <space> text to appear ]

example:…Src, [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/3932 Lck], Hck …

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Upload and display images: upload file

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note

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format:[[Image:filename]]

example:[[Image:250px-PDB Protein SRC image.jpg]]

Link to uploaded file to display

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Add a reference. . .if you quote it, cite it

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Add a citation

format:<references/>

format:<ref> text </ref>

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Citation appearance

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Add Page to Genes Category

[[Category:Genes|Butland]]

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Genes Category

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Create lists

• Bulleted list *• Numbered list #• Indent :

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Help with Editing

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Model after someone else’s page structure

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Example Gene Wikis

• The Gene Wiki– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Gene_Wiki– Huss et al. The Gene Wiki: community intelligence

applied to human gene annotation. Nucleic Acids Res (2010) vol. 38 (Database issue) pp. D633-9

• WikiGenes– http://www.wikigenes.org– Hoffmann. A wiki for the life sciences where

authorship matters. Nat Genet (2008) vol. 40 (9) pp. 1047-51

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Synopsis

Create a gene wiki pageUse wiki markup to lay out contentAdd citations and links to external sitesFind help/solutions