Help:How To Add Pages and Upload Files
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How To Add a New Wiki Page
1) Add a link to the proposed new page to an existing page and save it, eg:
[[The Bush Dancers display group Annual Report 2009]]
2) The link will appear in red. Click on the link and a blank new page will appear.
3) Type in your Wiki text to the new page, and save it.
4) Alternatively, you can "edit" an existing page, select all Wiki text and copy (Ctrl+C), then paste into your new page (Ctrl+V).
Wiki text is just plain text, with a few extra formatting codes, such as == for heading 1, === for heading 2, # for numbered, * for dot point, [[ for a link, ''' (3 single quotes) for bold, and <br> for a single line break.
5) Use your browser's "back" button to return to the original page and test the link.
How To Link to and Upload a PDF document
1) Add the link to the page and save it, eg:
[[Media:TBD_AR2009_Final.pdf|The Bush Dancers display group]]
2) The link will appear in red. Click on the link.
3) Browse to your PDF document, and upload it.
4) Use your browser's "back" button to return to the page and test the link.
How to Upload a Replacement Document
1) Log In
2) Obtain the existing filename, for example by hovering over a link to the file, or editing a page containing a link to the file.
3) Click "Special Pages" in the Toolbox, then "File List"
4) Search for the existing filename, ie type or paste the filename into the top "Search" box then click "Search".
5) Click (desc) to the left of the found filename.
6) Click "Upload a new version of this file" below the list of versions. If you do not see this link, check that you are logged in.
7) Browse to your file, and upload it.
One way to make thumbnails
A workflow for you to adapt or adopt. Note: this is a little advanced, although once set up it is simple and quick. Please do not let an inability to create thumbnails stop you from uploading files in document catalogues etc. If you cannot create thumbnails, leave the thumbnail blank and another editor will create the thumbnail.
Initial Setup
1) Download and install something like "ImageMagick-6.5.7-8-Q16-windows-dll.exe" from
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows
(Note: ImageMagick also requires Ghostscript to be installed for PDF to JPG conversions to work)
2) Set up a folder eg C:\PDFIn to contain PDFs to be thumbnailed.
3) Set up a folder called eg C:\PDF as a home for all PDFs and JPGs.
4) Set up a Windows shortcut, say PDFIn, with "Target":
%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /k "for %1 in (C:\PDFIn\*.pdf) do convert -scale 100x %1 C:\PDFIn\%~n1.jpg"
WorkFlow
1) Save your PDFs in C:\PDFIn. Do not use spaces in filenames.
2) Double-click on the shortcut. This will place a 100px wide JPG for each PDF into the C:\PDFIn folder.
3) Move everything from C:\PDFIn to C:\PDF, the permanent home for PDFs and thumbnails. You can upload the PDF and the JPG thumbnail.
