Editor's manual

Introduction

Log in at https://livingpoets-test.awh.durham.ac.uk/w/Special:UserLogin

Editing a page.

After logging in, all pages have an 'edit' link at the top right hand side. There are also 'edit' links to the right of each heading, which you can use to only edit one section.

Clicking on the Edit link gives you a basic text box with all of the "wiki syntax", which is like HTML, but simpler.

See the Wiki Syntax section for help with writing and editing this text.

Once you have made a change, you can click on the "Show preview" button near the bottom to see how the page will look. (Note that layout near the top of the page will be slightly different for normal users, as they won't have the edit links.) You can scroll down to the bottom of the preview page, and make more changes if you want to, pressing "Show preview" again to see how things look.

Once you're happy with a change, click the "Save page" button to save it. The change is now live to the world.

Wiki Syntax

Superscript

code	result
4<sup>th</sup>	4th

Quotes

code	result
<blockquote>quote</blockquote>	quote

This indents the quote.

Poems

code	result
<poem>my poem</poem>	my poem

This means that extra spaces at the start of a line, and linebreaks is preserved.

Bold & Italic

code	result
''italic text''	italic text
'''bold text'''	bold text
'''''bold and italic text'''''	bold and italic text

Headings

code	result
== normal heading ==	normal heading
=== smaller heading ===	smaller heading
==== even smaller heading ====	even smaller heading

Links

code	result
[[Page name|link text]]	link text

Textual notes / references

code	result
This is {{#lemma: all body | And by ''all'', I mean ''full''.}} text.	This is all body And by all, I mean full. text.

Note that these can't span across multiple paragraphs - in these cases you'll have to just pick the first paragraph that's covered by the note, and ensure the note makes its scope clear.

They also can't overlap, so you can't have a note covering a whole sentence with another note on a word in that sentence - in these situations you'll have only apply the whole sentence note to a part of it.

Shorthand

{{something}}

or

{{#something}}

text is shorthand for something else. Sometimes they can have options separated by '|' characters, which is added in some way to the shorthand. For example

{{CollectionsBox|editor=Nora Goldschmidt}}

shows a standardised box for a source saying that the text and translation is by Nora Goldschmidt.

These shorthands are technically called templates and parser functions, in case some computer person wants to know.