[Noisebridge-discuss] Description page for Linus System Administrators Study Group?

[jim]

i want some of what you're smoking. thanks. 
i'll do it. 


On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 16:57 -0800, Rubin Abdi wrote:
> jim wrote, On 20100117 160758:
> >     yes, rubin. you asked me, jim, and i asked you
> > where to locate the page, then you went away for
> > a few weeks.
> >     i can't figure out how to work with categories.
> > i hate just making a page that isn't subordinate
> > to some upper-level related page.
> >     but i figured it out: i'm gonna write up a
> > description and stick out "there" somewhere on the
> > internet then create an external link. and really:
> > thanks for the reminder.
> 
> Quick Mediawiki howto for those wanting to know how to create a page 
> that's linked from somewhere else on the wiki, and to toss it into a 
> category.
> 
> 1) Go to the wiki, be awesome and log in.
> 
> 2) Find the page you want to link from. The Noisebridge main page pulls 
> its events listing from the Category:Events page.
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events
> 
> 3) Click "edit" at the top of the page.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Category_Events_-_Noisebridge-20100117-163205.png
> 
> 4) Find the part of the text where you want to create a link from.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Firefox-20100117-163315.png
> 
> 5) Think of a name for your new page. Let's call it "Linux System 
> Administration Study Group" or some such. To let Mediawiki know that 
> this is the name of the page, we surround it with double brackets.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Category_Events_-_Noisebridge-20100117-163639.png
> 
> 6) Give a quick summery about what you're doing to the page and hit 
> "Show preview" to see if what you did makes any sense.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Category_Events_-_Noisebridge-20100117-163838.png
> 
> 7) Yay we have a preview, the link to the new page is there. The link is 
> the color red because the page doesn't actually exist yet.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Category_Events_-_Preview_-_Noisebridge-20100117-163949.png
> 
> 8) Remember this is a preview still, so scroll down and click the "Save 
> page" button.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Category_Events_-_Preview_-_Noisebridge-20100117-164106.png
> 
> 9) The changes have now been saved. Let's click on the new link we 
> created! Remember it's still red because that page doesn't exist yet.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Category_Events_-_Preview_-_Noisebridge-20100117-163949.png
> 
> 10) Since the page doesn't exist yet, Mediawiki automatically takes you 
> to the edit page. Let's put some information in there. Surrounding 
> ==something== with equal signs will turn that thing into a section 
> header the more equal signs the deeper of a child that section will be. 
> When you use sections, a nice table of contents is created for you. I've 
> gone ahead and added in another link to the page that has information on 
> how to get to Noisebridge. Lastly I included a quick summery of what my 
> change to this page is, which is it's creation. Now let's hit preview!
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Linux_System_Administration_Study_Group_-_Noisebridge-20100117-164707.png
> 
> 11) Yay, the preview looks great!
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Linux_System_Administration_Study_Group_-_Preview_-_Noisebridge-20100117-164815.png
> 
> 12) Let's hit the save page button at the bottom.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Linux_System_Administration_Study_Group_-_Preview_-_Noisebridge-20100117-164938.png
> 
> 13) Yay! We have a new page with some information in it!
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Linux_System_Administration_Study_Group_-_Noisebridge-20100117-165039.png
> 
> 14) But wait, we forgot to toss it into the events category, ohnos! 
> Click on the "edit" link.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Firefox-20100117-165159.png
> 
> 15) If we look at other events pages, we'll notice that they have 
> [[Category:events]] somewhere in the page. This tells Mediawiki to 
> include the page in that category (and in turn have it get listed at the 
> end of the Category:events page. Let's toss that bit of mark up into the 
> linux admin group page.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Editing_Linux_System_Administration_Study_Group_-_Noisebridge-20100117-165410.png
> 
> 16) Give a little summery, click the this is a minor edit box (since it 
> is minor), click "Show preview" and we should have a preview that 
> doesn't really look different other then the extra bit at the bottom 
> saying it's in the events category.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Linux_System_Administration_Study_Group_-_Noisebridge-20100117-165550.png
> 
> 17) Ok the page looks good, hit "Save page" and you should have a 
> freshly completed edit. Let's go take a look at the events page and see 
> if the new page is listed there.
> http://0.starset.net/screenies/Category_Events_-_Noisebridge-20100117-165700.png
> 
> And now you're done.
>