digital resources for students

Nexus Wiki Cheat Sheet

Nexus Wiki Cheat Sheet

on Jan 29, 2014 in Archived Support, Courses, Guides, Nexus, SOC305 |

Creating the first page

  • Once the wiki is set up, a user will click the link and reach the following screen this part has been done for you as a part of setting up the wiki on Nexus:

newwikipage.png

Adding more pages

  • Type the name of your page inside double brackets. (1 in screenshot below) You can preview it by clicking the “preview” button towards the bottom of the screen.
  • Press the “save” button.
  • Now click the (red) link for one of the pages (2 in screenshot below) and you will be prompted to create it in the same way you create the first page:

newpageswiki.png

  • A page once created has a blue link.

Hint:

If you use theNew option from the navigation block you will still need to copy and paste the name of the new page onto the immediate parent page and surround it with double brackets. This creates a link to your new page and makes it accessible from the main Wiki page. Otherwise nobody will recognise the so called lost new page.

Wiki editing in general

Depending on the type of the wiki, there are several ways to edit your page. But don’t worry: The best thing of a wiki is, that nothing is lost. The old version will be there – and if someone changes your version of the page – your version will also be there. Note that the options for editing, commenting viewing history, map and files may all be accessed both from tabs at the top (1 in screenshot below) and links in the navigation block (2 in screenshot below):

editingwiki.png

History

  • The History tab at the top or link in the navigation block allows users to see what has been altered in the wiki.
  • Compare edits by clicking the “Compare Selected” button.
  • Click the “Restore” button of the version you wish to restore if the latest edit is unsuitable:
Wiki Markup (how to format the pages):

''Bold text''

'''Italic text'''

[[Internal link]]

http://External URL

*Bullet List

*Bullet List

*Bullet List

#Numbered List

#Numbered List

#Numbered List

[[image:Image|alt]]

= Level 1 Header =

= Level 1 Header =

=== Level 3 Header ===

---

<nowiki>No wiki text</nowiki>
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-58569152-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview');
Skip to toolbar