Starter help

Starter help Beginners Help File There is a special area called “the sand box” where you can go to try out try these instructions without fear of doing any damage to the site.

We will take you there if you click here - the sandbox http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Sandbox This is a public space and you will lose what you put in here quickly as other people come to practise.

If you are clear you want to contribute you may register with the site. Go to http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Wikicities and login in the top right hand corner. There you will have the option of creating an account. This is free and easy to do. With the account comes your own user name, user page and your own sandbox. Here stuff you put in will be kept for longer. To get to your sandbox type in http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/User:Yourusername:sandbox. Remember colons and capital letters.

Once at your sandbox reduce the page sizes so you can see these instructions alongside the sandbox page

Just above the word Sandbox on the page is a tab which says “edit” click this and wait for the edit page to load.

Note the editing space in the box and the line of buttons above

In the box highlight any existing text and delete.

To Edit a page

Type a few lines of text as though they were the beginning of an article in the box Save your work by clicking the “save page” button below the editing box.

Its so simple. You will see that you have now edited the page.

To create a new page

Now, to create a page linked to this bit of text, choose the “edit” tab again. Highlight a significant word in you text – any word will do - and click on the Ab button in the row of buttons. This puts two brackets around your word. This makes a new page and a link to it on the page you are editing. To see this click the “save” page button

Open the editing page

Type text

Save your work

Now you can do this

Open a page in Psychology wiki

To make a link to a Wikipedia article

In the sandbox http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Sandbox

Click on “edit this page” and wait for it to load.

Notice the line of buttons above the editing box

In the box, below the line that says

Type out the name of a link, (or cut and paste the link name from the address box at the top of a wikipedia article, or cut and paste from the example below). Remember to include the http:// bit.

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness

This is the link to the Happiness page in Wikipedia.

Now because we want to hide the link and give it a usable name like – wikipedia happiness page -we add that name to the end, after a space like so

e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness wikipedia happiness page

Now highlight from - http to page- and then click on to make the link.

e.g

Links
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness
 * http://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/