Frequently Asked Questions

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German Version of the FAQs
A collection of frequently asked question about CoLab is provided here:

Create new page[edit]

To create a new page, enter the title of your page into the search window on the main page (e.g new page):
Searchbox.jpg
If the title is not forgiven, you get the following result:

Searchresult.jpg

Follow the red link.

CreatePage.jpg

Now you can edit the page.
To get a preview of page, click on Show Preview. To save the page, click on SavePage.

Text design[edit]

1.) Wiki-Syntax
The MediaWikiSyntax is used for formatting of text in wiki pages. The Sandbox offers a good opportunity to pratice or testing. For a detailed description click here.

2.) Textcolor
An additional useful formatting, write in color. To color the text, you have to insert <font> tags. This <font> color="green"> green text </ font> appears in text, as follow: green text. Possible colors are: magenta (color="magenta'),yellow (color="yellow") or purple (color="purple"). Another Possibility: Define colors via hexademical codes like the color FF6600 (color = "# FF6600").

Contents[edit]

Tables of contents will created automatically, if three or more headings on a WikiPage are defined.

=Überschrift=
==Überschrift==
===Überschrift===

To suppress tables of contents, insert

 __NOTOC__ 

into the text.
To force tables of contents, insert

 __TOC__ 

into the text.

Create Category[edit]

To create a category in an article, insert

 [[Category Example]] 

into the text.
The item is automatically assigned to the category example. If it not exist, follow the red category- link. The Page will be opened in edit mode. Special case: to the categories already assigned article, will displayed before the large text field (at smaller screen resolutions it looks like the category is already available).

Add Category[edit]

Categories are assigned to pages, by inserting

 [[Category:Example|XY]] 

into the text. The page is automatically assigned to the appropriate category.

Alphabetical Sorting of Categories[edit]

It should always be taken care, that categories be sorted alphabetically.
Example: Assigning a page with the title Meeting to the category Example:

 [[Category:Beispiel|Meeting]] 

The page Meeting appears among M at the category Example.

Search by Category[edit]

To search for a category, click on the search button without entering a search item.
It appears the advanced search.
Disable the Namespace Main und activate the Namespace Category.

Searchnamespaces.jpg

The search item can now be entered to the searchbox.

References[edit]

References:The Cite-Template was installed at Colab, to faciliate the citing of sources. Quotes or cross references are issued as a nowiki><ref...></nowiki>-tag.
Formating and Output are possible at any place e.g. :

[...]
Digital Library Federation."<ref name="mets standard">http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets - METS homepage</ref> 
[...]
==References==
<references />

Access Control[edit]

If you want to set up an access control for certain groups, you have to insert

 <accesscontrol>MPDL</accesscontrol> 

or

 <accesscontrol>MDPL,GAVO</accesscontrol> 

at the top of the text.
Caution: Only authorized user groups have access to your page! It is not necessary to use the ',,' separator at the end of the element content.

Upload Files[edit]

To Upload files at Colab, click on the third point of toolbox: Upload file.
Toolbox.JPG

Now you can choose files and add a description. Finally click on Upload file (bottom of page).
Following formats can be used : png, gif, jpg, jpeg, wmz, mm, pdf, doc, xls, ppt, zip, java, txt.
If the file is already uploaded to Colab, appears a warning message. Its also possible to upload the latest version of a file.
Now you can insert the file into your Page:

 [[File:Example.jpg]]

An other opportunity: click on this symbolWerkzeug.jpg at the tool-bar.

Link to a Wiki Page[edit]

It's possible to create links to internal Wiki Pages.
Therefor you have to insert the title of page, as follow e.g. Sandbox:

 [[Sandbox|link to sandbox]] 

It´s also possible to assign individual names for links, after a vertical bar.
After saving accrues a link to page e.g. link to sandbox.

Link to External Page[edit]

Similar to create links to internal Wiki Pages, it´s possible to create links to external pages. Therefor you copy the URL of page.
The next step is to paste the URL into the text as follow e.g. MPDL:

 [[http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/link to MPDL]]

It´s also possible to assign individual names for links.
After saving accrues a link to page e.g.link to MPDL.

Calendar[edit]

this extention is not installed anymore Grossmann (talk) 12:09, 13 March 2014 (CET)

The Calendar used the Categories-tool in background.
Once a page is assigned to a special Date-Category(e.g."2007/07/03"), the page is listed at [[Special:Events].
To create a Calendar, you have to insert:

 <calendar/> 

into the text. <calendar/>

Create Short Links[edit]

Short Links of a page are created by TinyUrl.
Therefor you copy the URL and paste it to following window:

Tinyurl.jpg

Afterwards click at Make TinyURL!.
Now you can use the short version of your URL.

Create Tables with TableEdit[edit]

TableEdit is a PlugIn to create tables on a easy way.
A detailed description, you find here.

1.) Integrate a blank table:

 < NewTableEdit/> 


2.) Integrate a table with predefined headings:

  <NewTableEdit>

heading 1
heading 2
heading 3 
etc.. 

</NewTableEdit> 

Afterwards save the text to create the table.
The Table accrues as follow:

heading 1 heading 2 heading 3

To edit the table, click onto the blue edit table link.

Create Simple Tables[edit]

A detailed description, you found here.

1.) Create a simple table:

heading heading heading
example1 example2 example3
example4 example5 example6
example7 example8 example9
{|
|-
! heading !! heading !! heading
|-
| example1 || example2 || example3
|-
| example4 || example5 || example6
|-
| example7 || example8 || example9
|}

2.) Create a table with frames and highlighted box heads:

heading heading heading
example1 example2 example3
example4 example5 example6
example7 example8 example9
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! heading !! heading!! heading
|-
| example1 || example2 ||  example3
|-
| example4 || example5 || example6
|-
| example7 || example8 || example9
|}


3.) Create a table with a line break at box head:

head-
ing
head-
ing
head-
ing
example1 example2 example3
example4 example5 example6
example7 example8 example9
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! head- <br/> ing !! head- <br/> ing !! head- <br/> ing
|-
| example1 || example2 || example3
|-
| example4 || example5 || example6
|-
| example7 || example8 || example9
|}

Cooperative Work – Discussion & Comment[edit]

First please see the Editing policies.

1.) Discussion:
For every Wiki Page is automatically created a discussion page.
Thereby it´s about a " Meta-page".
Informations about an article can placed there e.g. " We need more Examples..." or " We need more passages ...".
The discussion page is reachable from every page, s.a. discussion page

2.) Comment:
If you want like to forgive an intelligible comment for an articel, you may want to insert a colon and a signature.
Therefor the comment will closed with four tildes:

  ~~~~  

It will automatical create a signature with Username and timestamp.
The signature appears as follow:
--Tanja 08:53, 6 August 2008 (UTC).

Any other Question?[edit]

If you have any other question, please feel free to contact the CoLab-Support. A German version of the FAQs is provided here.