Using EUAsiaGridWiki

Quick guide for users

Apply your EUAsiaGridWiki account
Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site
Updating your password
Retrieving your password
Adding or changing content (editing)
Restoring previous content
Adding an image
Uploading and adding a link to a file
Adding a link to another site
Adding a new page
Dividing a page into sections
Public your page to EUAsiaGrid webpage
Accessing more help and information

Apply your EUAsiaGridWiki account

  1. Please enter Account Application form
  2. We will create an account for you and send your password to you after we receive your application.
  3. Login to the wiki (see Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site in this guide).
  4. Change your password (see Updating your password in this guide).

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Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site

  1. Click on the Log in/create account link at the top-right corner of the main window. Type in the username and password you have been given and click on the Log in button.
  1. Click any of the options in the navigation menu at the top-left of the screen to access the different pages in the site.

Note: You must have cookies enabled to log in to a EUAsiaGridWiki site. To enable cookies on your computer, refer to the Enable cookies for PC users opens in new window quick guide or the Enable cookies for Mac users opens in new window quick guide.

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Updating your password

  1. Log in (see Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site in this guide).
  2. Click on the my preferences link at the top-right corner of the main window.
  3. there is a Change password section, you can update your password via the EUAsiaGridWiki site. To do this:
    1. Type in your old password and then your new password - twice.
    2. Click Save.

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Retrieving your password

  1. If you cannot access the site and you see a prompt in a web page within the browser window:
    1. Type in your username and click on the E-mail password botton
    2. Your password will be emailed to the email address associated with your account.

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Adding or changing content (editing)

  1. Log in (see Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site in this guide).
  2. Go to the page or section you wish to edit (using the links in the navigation menu at the top-left of the window).
  3. You can edit either a whole page or just a section of a page.

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Restoring previous content

  1. Log in (see Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site in this guide).
  2. Go to the page or section where you wish to restore previous content.
  3. Click the history tab at the top of the window. You will see a chronological list of all the changes that have been made to that page.
  4. Click on the date and time of the version you wish to restore. You will see the old version of the page with links at the top to take you to an even older version or to a newer version.
  5. If you are sure this is the version you wish to restore, click on the edit tab at the top of the window.
  6. You will see a warning at the top of the page that you are editing an out-of-date revision. Click on Save page.

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Adding an image

This is a two-step process. You first need to upload your file, then select it to insert it into a page.

Note: It is best to upload only small images, as large images take a long time to load and can be difficult to view. As a rule of thumb, they should be no larger in file size than 100 Kb and no larger in physical size than 640x480 pixels.

  1. Log in (see Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site in this guide).
  2. Click on Upload file in the toolbox menu to the left of the window (under the navigation menu).
  3. Click on the Browse button and select the image file you wish to upload from your computer. Make a note of the exact spelling of the image Destination filename.
  4. If you wish, type a description in the Summary field.
  5. Click Upload file.
  6. Go to the page or page section where you wish to insert the image.
  7. Click on the edit tab at the top of the window or the edit link to the right of the section heading where you wish to insert the image. The content of the page or section will appear with an editing toolbar at the top.
  8. Place the cursor where you would like the image to appear.
  9. Click on the Embedded image icon in the middle of the editing tool bar. (It looks like a little photo and is to the right of the capital A icon.)
  10. An image tag will have been inserted into the text area where you placed your cursor. Change the file name in the tag to the Destination filename of the image you just uploaded.
  11. Click Save page.

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Uploading and adding a link to a file

To upload and link to a file such as a PDF, Word document or Excel spreadsheet, use the same two-step process as described in Adding an image in this guide.

Note: The format for adding links to uploaded files other than images is [[Media:filename|name you want to appear in the saved page]], eg: [[Media:Upload_Process.doc|The file upload process.doc]]

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Adding a link to another site

  1. Log in (see Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site in this guide).
  2. Go to the page or section where you wish to add the link and click on the edit tab (at the top of the window) or the edit link (near the section heading).
  3. Place the cursor in the text where you would like the link to appear. Then, either:
  4. Click on the External link icon in the editing toolbar. (It's the fourth icon, that looks like a picture of the world).
  5. A URL tag will have been inserted into the text area where you placed your cursor.
  6. Replace the web address inside the square brackets with your link's URL.
  7. Click Save page.

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Adding a new page

  1. Log in (see Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site in this guide).
  2. Go to the page or section from where you would like to link your new page and click on the edit tab (at the top of the window) or the edit link (near the section heading).
  3. Select a word or collection of words that represents the title of your new page and click on the Internal link icon in the editing toolbar. (It's the third icon, that looks like Ab with an underline.)
  4. The words you selected will appear surrounded with double square brackets, and will have been formatted as a link to your new page.
  5. Click Save page.
  6. Click on the hyperlink you have created in the text, which will be in a different coloured type. This should take you to a blank page with the same name as the hyperlink.
  7. Type into the text field and format as required.
  8. Click Save page.

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Dividing a page into sections

  1. Log in (see Accessing your EUAsiaGridWiki site in this guide).
  2. Go to the page or section you would like to divide and click on the edit tab (at the top of the window) or the edit link (near the section heading).
  3. Place the cursor where you would like to divide the text and type your heading.
  4. Select the heading, then click the Level 2 headline icon in the middle of the editing toolbar. (It looks like a large A.)
  5. Two 'equals' characters will appear around the text you selected as your heading.
  6. Click Save page.
  7. If you add enough headings to your page, a table of contents will appear automatically at the top.

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Public your page to EUAsiaGrid webpage

  1. To put <startFeed /> and <endFeed /> tags in a page, enter something like the following:
<startFeed />

==Title 1==
This is a sample sentence....

==Title 2==
This is a sample sentence....

<endFeed />
  1. Please send a email to wlueng@sinica.edu.tw or shinyu@gate.sinica.edu.tw and tell us which wiki page that you would like public to website.
  2. We wiil put it to website very soon after receive your requirement.

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Accessing more help and information

Click on Help in the navigation menu at the top-left of the window.

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