Friendly Manual

TECH INFRASTRUCTURE COALITION

A Friendly Wiki manual for TIC

A Friendly Wiki manual for TIC

Hello TIC!

This is a small manual with a few basic gestures that will help you to work on and enjoy your Wiki!

Find more complex/in-depth gestures and explanations here.

A few usefull reminders:

• When Logging in and entering information in the search bar CAPITAL & small letters matter

Have only one person editing at a time

-> saving changes while someone else is editing them might make them loose all their efforts

• ADVICE: write your texts in another document and copy paste them into the Wiki, this way you can be sure to not lose all your & your collegues efforts

• Don't use Wiki for confidential information, everything once saved can be traced back, until we find a moment to password protect a page everything will be searchable

• Add comments for edits so one can more easily navegate and find previous versions

How to:

Create an account

You can only create an account if you are logged in and have the status of an administrator
Special:CreateAccount

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Create a namespace

To create a namespace contact a Titipi Infrastructures Team.

A namespace will allow you to code specific commands that will only affect your namspace, if you don't need this you can just head over to creating a page.

If later on you want to make the contents of that Page into a Namespace it is also possible.

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Create a page

Write a link for the page you want to create in the searchbar https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/TIC_(pagetitle)

You can beginn the pagetitel with "TIC_" for better navigating the pages.

a message will appear:

go on "create this page" and once its loaded you can start editing your page!

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Introduce a text

To start introducing material into your Wiki page you can either go on "Edit" or "Edit source".

On "Edit" you will find a simple tool bar that looks like this:

Use "Format Paragraph" to determine what kind of text you are writing. For example this Text you're reading now is a "Paragraph" but the titel of this text "Introduce a text" s a "Sub-heading 2".

When you use the different Headings, the page will automatically introduce an Index at the top or your page, where you will have a better overview and quickly find your way to the part of the next that you need.

Use "A" to style text without it having implications on your Index.

Use 🔗 to create links within the wiki or to external sites with other text

example: click here to visit equinox webpage

instead of simply copy-pasting the link into the text, which will lool like this: https://www.equinox-eu.com/ .

Use "Cite" to introduce References and Citations into you text.

Use "structures" to create bullet-point or numbered lists.

Use "Insert" to insert Images and Media, Tables and more.

Use "Ω" for entering special Symbols.

Here is a more detailed description of how you can edit your text using the "Edit" Interface

A more complex way of editing the text is going on "Edit source" here you can edit the text using coding language.

This will be usefull if you want to add other design elements to your page.

For example if you want to add coluumns or want your text centered or to the right (see Columns and other formatting),

or maybe you want to add colour or have fun designing buttons like this one:

EQUINOX

If you dont know how to do certain design choices you are always welcome to copy the code from another page and adapting it to your own needs.

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Upload an image

To add an image/file to your page go to insert> images and media First you will encounter a "search" window,

here you will find/ chose all media that you have ever uploaded on the wiki, in case you don't have any yet you need to use the "upload" area first

this is the caption of the image

You will have to tick the box "This is my own work" or else you wont be allowed to upload the image (policies of Titipi).

This is the caption of the image. This image is image style "Thumbnail", on the contrary to the other images on this page which are "Frameless"

Then it will ask you the "Details": Name and a description of the image.

When you confirm the image you want to use you can add a "caption": a text that appears under your image

and an "alternative text captions": for users who use screen readers, or who have disabled image display.

You can also set various parameters for the image in the "Advanced settings window". These include the alignment, the type, and size of the image.

When you want the image to be wraped with the text, chose if you want the image left, center or right,

once you insert the image you can click & drag the image up and down to your desired height.

If you have multiple Images to upload you can do go insert > Gallery.

Example: This is a Gallery of 4 images:

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  this is a caption for a shark earring

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  From the river to the sea

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  another caption for a diagram that helps to you find and lose

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  to trust or to treat yourself

Reminder: some things are only editable in the "Edit source" area where you can code and format to your liking.

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Upload a PDF

This is a PDF from Equinox, I used the "link" function to place it here and change the text

For the next example I inserted a downloaded, cut and compressed pdf (titipi only takes files up to 2MB) like I insert an Image.
The result is that the link doesnt take us directly to the pdf.
File:Ending-the-criminalisation-of-migration-solidarity 3 first pages compressed.pdf

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Columns and other formatting

On "Edit source" insert this code

<div class=columns> before the beginning of the text you want to be seen as a column, at the end of the same text insert this code </div> .

Example:

Intersectional Justice Struggle

We connect economic, racial, social, migrant, feminist, LGBT and digital justice work, bridging over silos in social justice organising. We focus on the need to address intersectional oppressions and create unity between our communities for a stronger justice movement.

Coalition & solidarity organising

We build collective power through coalitions of marginalised communities. Our model addresses the gap between grassroots activism and impactful political advocacy led by affected communities.  

Structural change & redistribution

We develop critical analysis and solutions to address the root causes of structural oppressions, rather than the interpersonal symptoms. We look to operationalise long-term visions for structural change rooted in decriminalisation, de-militarisation and redistribution.

Its similar If you want to change the position of your text:

Text on the left is the default mode on this Wiki, so you dont have to change anything for this to happen.

If you want text on the center, but the text you want centered in between this code

<div style="text-align:center;"> enter text you want centered </div>

And If you want the text to be aligned to the right, use this code:

<div style="text-align:right;"> enter text you want aligned to the right </div>

these lines between the different chapters you can insert by writing in the edit source the following code <hr>

Similarly, If you want there to be more space between lines you can write the code <br> as often as needed

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View history/ version control

On "View history" you can see all the changes made to your page, the date, time and the user who made them.

There will be a long list made of lines like these:

on " (|cur " you can see the differences made between that edit and the previous one.

On " |prev) " you can see the diference between that edit and the next one. Both in code.

Underneath the code (which sometimes can be quite long) you will see the preview of that page.

In italic you will find the summary written when the changes of that edit were saved.

this is what it looked like:

In " (undo) " you can undo all changes leading up to that page.

It is important to know that even if you undo something, anyone can still see what has been undone or deleted,

since all versions of the wiki will be stored you should not save confidential information to the wiki.

If you want to hide the history of your file because it might contain information you don't want to be findable you can always edit all your material in a test page and once you are ready to publish it in the official page you

go to the "Edit source" of your page, copy all the content, and paste it in the "Edit source" of your official page.

After this you can delete your test page & all its history!

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Hide Information & password protect

For now we have created 2 different pages for TIC:

TECH INFRASTRUCTURE COALITION: Public

is accessible for anyone who stumbles across the page,

TECH INFRASTRUCTURE COALITION: Internal

is only accessible to read by someone who is logged in as a user.

To be a user you need to have an account created by TITiPI or someone close to TITiPI.

If this is not enough, We are still looking into ways to make this Password protected, we know now we need an extention and to add this extention we need to update the system... work in progress...

In the meantime I can share with you a code to remove information visually, but attention!! it will still be visible on the "Edit source"!!! This is the code:

<div style="display:none" class="user-show"> Information you don't public users to see, only logd in users. </div>

For example if you don't see the bubble gif it means you are not logged in as a user

log in to see the bubble gif.

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Index/ Table of Contents

Use "Format Paragraph" to determine what kind of text you are writing. For example this Text you're reading now is a "Paragraph" but the titel of this text "Introduce a text" s a "Sub-heading 2".

When you use the different Headings, the page will automatically introduce an Index at the top or your page, where you will have a better overview and quickly find your way to the part of the next that you need.

If you don't want an Index/ Table of Contents write the following code onto the beginning of your page in "Edit Source":

__NOTOC__

Meaning no table of contents, and now you can use all different types of Headers without having an Index at the beginning.

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Unfolding

The "Unfolding" is an aditional/ parallel page you can make to unfold your content into a PDF or an html site.

In the search bar write the link https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Unfolding:NAMEOFPUBLICATION, create this page.

Go to "Edit source" and transclude the page(s) you want published. You do this by typing:

{{TT|NameOfPage}}

Add as many pages as you want to Unfold into one Publication

For example for this Page https://titipi.org/wiki/php/Friendly_Manual

there is the unfolding https://titipi.org/wiki/php/Unfolding:Friendly_Manual

I transcluded the information onto the unfolding by typing in "Edit source" :

{{TT|Friendly_Manual}}

now everytime I edit something in my page it gets automatically updated in the Unfolding.

Now go on the button: ‎
This is the HTML version of your Publication. You will see this interface composed of the following buttons:

If you go on the "pdf" button you will be able to save and print a ready made Pdf with your content!

(it might take some time loading depending on the size of your publication)

If you want to change how the html/pdf version of your publication looks like you can edit the CSS code.

Before you can enter any code you will have to create the page where the code is inserted by going on "create page"

You can read more about this feature in Titipi's Wiki-to-pdf-manual.

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