Setting+Up+Your+Wiki

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[|How to set up a wiki at Wikispace and the basics of editing pages] [|Changing the look and feel your wiki] [|How to insert pictures and files to your wiki] [|How to use the Recent Changes and Notification features] [|How you can personalize your wiki]

=Inviting members=

If you want to set up a collaborative wiki where only members can add information to pages you need to invite the members. Do this by going to the "Manage Space" page. I recommend that you send the people you are inviting an email from your email account as well explaining to them that they will be recieiving an invite and ask them to click on the link and follow the instructions to join the wiki. I have had people reluctant to follow links from emails addresses they do not know.

=Working with Tables=

You can insert tables into wiki pages however they do work slighly differently from editing tables in MS Word.

=Creating a Tables of Contents= Wikis use a simple language known as "wikitext" to write pages in wiki websites. The great thing about a "Visual editor" is that you don't have to know wikitext or html to set up your pages because the visual editor toolbar works similar to the toolbar in MS Word and it does most the work for you.

However if you want to add a pretty table of contents to your pages you will need to use wiki text. The great thing about a table of content is that your readers will be able to quickly jump to the section of your page they want to read. To insert a table of contents you need to:
 * 1) Apply Heading Styles to the text that you want the readers to jump to in your document (e.g.used the drop down menu in the visual editor to change to the different heading styles. Heading 1 is for the main heading; Heading 2 is for a heading below heading 1 - means it is indented below the heading 1; just as heading 3 is indented beneath heading 2)
 * 2) Go to the top of your page and insert the following wikitext (you do not have to turn on text editor to use wikitext). [[image:aquaculturepda:table.jpg width="68" height="36" caption="table.jpg"]]
 * 3) Then click save and your table of contents should appear at the top of your page.
 * Source for this tutorial: http://aquaculturepda.wikispaces.com/Wikis#tocWikis0