Pages

Pages

SciSpace.net uses the Folio wiki tool to create user and community editable pages.
These pages are easy to use, and are good for creating documentation or construction of page based navigation of content such as these help pages.

Every user and community has a Wiki, and every Wiki can have the same permission level viewing rights as anything else on SciSpace.net, but additionally has control all the way down to the individual page level.

Privacy Control

There is a lot of control over who gets to see what in SciSpace.net. You have the same sort of control over Wiki pages, and like everything else, you can change your mind at any time and go back and change the permissions. The levels of access control for Wiki pages are: 

1. Public: This means that anybody can edit the page – including a random visitor to SciSpace.net who isn’t registered. This option is not recommended.
2. Moderated: This is the common default setting. It means that other people can read the page but not edit it. This is good for the case when your Wiki is being used for publication, either by yourself as an individual or as a community, but is not good for private collaboration where you intend the content to only be viewed by other members of your community.
3. Private Pages: These pages are visible to only you, or, in the case of a community Wiki, other members of your community. As an individual, this setting is probably most useful when you are working on a long draft of a page and don’t want others to see until you have finished. In the case of a community, it is the ideal setting for sharing information that you do not want other people to see.

Technically, ‘Moderated’ generates 2 types of moderation depending on where the Pages are created (either personal or within a community)

1. Moderated Personal Pages: This means that anybody, including an unregistered site visitor, can see and view the Page but can not edit anything without permission. This kind of page would be created by clicking on Pages from the top toolbar or would be viewed/edited by clicking the links to the right on the sidebar. This would be great if, for example, you wanted to build a special directory of content, links, recipes (whatever) that you want to share with anybody but do not want anybody else editing.
2. Moderated Community Pages: This is just like Moderated Personal with one clear difference: the Wiki Pages belong collectively to all members of a community within SciSpace.net.
   

Creating a Page and Building the Wiki




Creating a page is actually very, very simple. By default, when no Wiki page has been created yet, every User and Community will be presented with a ‘Home Page’ (actually called Home Page) that is visible by simply clicking:

1. For Individual users: click Pages in top toolbar.
2. For Communities: click 'Pages' on the right sidebar.

You’ll see a few options that are familiar to Wiki users, such as the history of the page (changes that have been made) along with the ability to Edit the Page.



Click 'Edit this Page' and you’ll see a familiar open text box into which you can type your text. This box accepts standard text formatting as well as simple text formatting using the What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get toolbar just like the blog posts on SciSpace.net.


To create a new page, you might simply click 'Create a new page under this one' below the text box, at which point you will see a new page and it will be automagically linked to from the first page. This is a quick and easy way to add pages, particularly if you’re copying and pasting a lot of stuff from a word processor.

Alternatively, the common Wiki Way to create a page – or create a reminder to yourself or others to create a new page – is to put the name of the New Page inside double brackets (these: )ndash like New SciSpace Page (currently blank if you click that). That will automatically turn the text ‘New SciSpace Page’ inside those brackets into a hyperlink. If somebody (or just yourself) clicks on that link, they will be presented with a new blank page to edit.




Moving Pages Around

Every new page, regardless of how you create it above, will present you with the same Privacy options along with the ability to quickly move that page around if you change your mind. If you create a link within a page but later choose to move it around, you start by clicking 'edit this page'. There is a small drop down menu near the bottom that allows you to choose a new 'parent' page.

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Content adapted from Elgg documentation.

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