Tutorial (Saintapedia)

This agenda is what is typically covered during Training (Saintapedia), although individuals can also use it to learn at their own pace outside of the training class.

Class

Questions for participants

• Why are you taking the class? What would you like to learn from the class?
• How did you learn about Saintapedia?

Overview of training

1. Introduction to Saintapedia and Basic concepts
2. Tour of the wiki
3. Introduction to editing
4. Trainees create their user page and add content
   1. Wikify location
   2. Favorite pages
   3. Add Redirect from given or preferred name to User page
   4. Leveling system

Introduction to Saintapedia

Saintapedia is an online wiki dedicated to information about saints with Semantic mediawiki capabilities. It serves as an encyclopedia or a comprehensive resource for details about saints.

While Saintapedia aims to be a factual repository, the nature of wiki platforms means that the depth, accuracy, and breadth of information can vary based on contributions. Always good to cross-reference religious or historical facts with authoritative sources if precision is needed.

• Help you understand that a wiki is only as good as we make it and the most important thing you can do is add what you know. As your schedule allows, participation in gardening is also appreciated.
• Help you become more comfortable with Saintapedia.
• Differences between a wiki and a website
• Why should you use Saintapedia?

Basic concepts

Question - How do you know when someone else made a change to a page you have edited?

1. Saintapedia is organized by topic. The easiest way to find information on a topic is through searching or by following a link from a related topic article.
2. Saintapedia articles, as much as possible, should link to related Saintapedia articles.
3. No one owns any article in Saintapedia. Since any editor can improve the contents of a page (fixing grammar, adding a link, etc.), every editor is encouraged to change articles when they see a way it can be improved.
4. Every edit is tied to an individual editor.
5. Every version of every article can be seen in the Article history. The Watchlist and Email reminders can also help you keep on top of content updates.
6. Any change can be un-done by any editor.
7. Be Bold in editing! - Since there is a complete version history and it is easy to revert to previous versions, the wiki cannot really be damaged by any editor.
8. Articles are never finished because the Department is continually evolving and changing.

Tour of Saintapedia

What is one thing that can't be posted on Saintapedia?

Recent changes

Main pages: Special:RecentChanges and Recent Changes

• Editor - every edit is attributable to someone
• Page Title - To make articles easy to find and be linked from other page, article titles must meet certain Naming conventions
• Date Stamp - When the change was made
• + or - - how much was added or removed with the change
• Hist - every article has an edit history that captures every edit and every version of the article
• Diff - Shows the changes made to the article
• Contribs - List of changes made by the editor
• Edit Summary - a brief explanation of an edit to a Saintapedia page
• Filters - Top filters

Left sidebar

• Help and All help topics
• Saintapedia FAQs
• Toolbox, especial uploading files (Saintapedia is not a shared drive)

The page tabs

• page and discussion
• edit, edit source, view history, watch, move

Search

Main page: Help:Search

Account bar

Main pages: Help:Account bar and Account bar

• Notifications
• my contributions
• my watchlist,
• the preferences tab
• the user page

Introduction to editing

This content is being shown from Help:Editing Saintapedia#VisualEditor.

Editing most Saintapedia pages is simple. Click on the "Edit" tab at the top of a Saintapedia page to launch Visual editor Make any edits that you feel are needed. Click on "Save changes" (ideally adding an Edit summary of what you changed).

VisualEditor

VisualEditor (VE) is a simplified tool to edit Saintapedia that allows you see the effect of any change immediately on the page (commonly referred to as What You See Is What You Get). It does not require editors to use the Editing toolbar to learn wikitext to edit existing content.

Editing articles purely in wikitext is and will remain an option using the enhanced editor and editing toolbar. This may be the preference for experienced editors because they might find it faster and more precise. Even editors who enable VisualEditor will have the wikitext option available from the toolbar for each page and section.

Editing demonstration

The instructor will demonstrate how to do the following in his or her sandbox using VisualEditor:

• Bold and italicize text
• break up a page by adding section headings and allow for the creation of the Table of contents
• bullets and numbered lists
• How to add internal links or external links (Help:Visual editor#Links)

Edit source/Enhanced editor

Main article: Editing toolbar

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Editors also have the option to use the older, but more precise Enhanced editor by clicking on "Edit source." This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the current page.

• In the text box in the new page, you can type in the text that you want to add to the page.
• The Editing Toolbar above the text box can help with formatting as well as adding sections and links.
• A cheat sheet has been developed to be a quick reference to wikitext and you can can always return to this help page by clicking 'Editing help', found near the 'save page' button.

When you have finished editing, you should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box.

• To see how the page looks with your edits, press the Show preview button.
• To see the differences between the page with your edits and the previous version of the page, press the Show changes button.
• If you're satisfied with what you see, be bold and press the "Save page" button.

Your changes will immediately be visible to all Saintapedia users. If you made a mistake, you can always undo your changes. Saintapedia also has a way for you to keeping track of changes to a page.

User page creation

Creating your user page is a low stress way to start editing the wiki.

Your Help:User page also:

• Allows you to add your favorite articles and Saintapedia tools in a place that is always only on click away.
• Participate in the leveling system

Initial steps

1. Log into Saintapedia (see Reset password, if needed)
2. Click on your username in the top right portion of the the page
3. There are two possible next steps, depending on which editor you have been using:
   • If given the option, click on "Enhanced editor" (option 1. under bullet 2.)
   • If it defaults to VisualEditor (the Create tab), you can either:
     • Click on the "Create source" tab
     • Within VisualEditor, switch to the Enhanced editor
4. With "Basic user page" selected from the drop down menu, click on "Load" to populate your user page with contents the template
5. Enter Edit summary such as "load template"
6. Save the page

Customization

Once you have loaded the template, you can use Visual editor to make changes such as:

1. Replace "Put your name here" with your name
2. Add your areas of expertise in the line under the section heading "Areas of expertise"
3. Add an Edit summary such as "established user page" or "created user page"
4. Click the "Save changes" button
5. Add an edit summary such as "add my info" and click on the 2nd "Save changes" button

Creating a section

After creating your user page, depending on time, we will add a section heading called "Favorite pages" under "Areas of expertise" using the "Heading" and bullets toolbar options.

• See Help:Visual editor#Headings for how to add a new heading

Creating a redirect

Create a redirect from your real name to your user page.

Wikifying text

1. Add the following section to your userpage.

==== Wikifying text ====

Saintapedia is a excellent place to share information about topics such as Canonization.

2. Wikify "Saintapedia" and "Canonization"

Using your new skills

• Look over recent changes for topics you could improve
  • improve on the content of the article by sharing what you know
  • link the articles with other articles (wikify)
  • add links to these pages from other appropriate articles
• create or improve on a navbox

Get involved

Which wikiproject could you help with?

• WikiProject Acronyms - A group dedicated to improving and expanding on the list of Acronyms in Saintapedia.
• Welcoming Committee - Emails new users and adds them to a log.
• File cleanup wikiproject - Describing, categorizing, linking, renaming, deleting, and so forth to better organize the Saintapedia file library.
• Gardener's Dashboard
• Become a Saintapedia Ambassador

Using your skills after class

• Earn your {{Saintapedia Training Credit Badge}}

Speed training

Speed trainings are one (1) hour condensed version of the two (2) hour Saintapedia 101 training class.

Questions for participants

• How did you learn about Saintapedia?
• Why are you taking the class?

Training overview

1. Introduction to Saintapedia and Basic concepts - 20 minutes
2. Tour of the wiki - 20 minutes
3. Introduction to editing - 20 minutes

Introduction to the wiki

• Origin and History of Saintapedia
• What is a wiki? See Differences between a wiki and a website
• Why a wiki about saints? Who can edit it?
• Why use Saintapedia?
• Things you should know before editing Saintapedia.
• What not to post on Saintapedia
• Ways to use Saintapedia
• Three Core Principles

Review Basic concepts

Frequently Asked Questions about Saintapedia

Tour

See Tour of Saintapedia above.

Editing

See Editing demonstration above.

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