Instructions

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How to Create your Committee’s Page on the LWI WIki

1. Access the LWI Wiki (http://wiki.lwionline.org) and log in. If you have not already done so, you will need to create an account, which you can do from the sign in page. Remember that your User ID will have an initial capital letter, and it is case-sensitive.

2. When you set up a new account, it needs to have “Committee” privileges added to it. Please contact Kristen Murray (murrayk@temple.edu) to get those privileges added to your account. When you contact Kristen, be sure to let her know the account name you created.

3. Once you log in to the wiki, you will be at the wiki Main Page. From here, navigate to the LWI Committees page by clicking the link you see on the right-hand side of the page.

4. Edit the page to add the name of your Committee. You can do this by clicking on “Edit” under “Views” in the navigation bar on the left. This will open the editing window where you can add and edit content. Add your committee name to the list of existing committees and note the name of the chair. You should also include a link to the page you are creating using the following syntax, remembering to include brackets around it: http://wiki.lwionline.org/index.php/CommitteeNameHere

For example, if Jane Smith, chair of the ABC Committee wanted to add her committee to the page, her entry would look like this: ABC Committee, Jane Smith (Chair) http://wiki.lwionline.org/index.php/ABCCommittee (remember the brackets around that)

Note that essentially you are naming, creating, and establishing a link to the new page, all in one step.

5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the editing window to save the changes you just made. (Don’t worry about the other options you see).

6. You should now see the content you just added to the Committees page, including a link to the page you created. To jump to that page, click on the link.

7. You can add additional committee pages as necessary by using the instructions outlined above. For example, if Jane Smith needs to create an XYZ Subcommittee page for the ABC Committee, she can do so by adding a link to the new page on the ABC Committee page and then editing the XYZ Subcommittee page.

How to Edit Your Committee page

1. Once on your Committee page, you can edit as you did the main Committees page, by clicking on “Edit” under “Views” on the left-hand side navigation bar. Note that the editing window allows you to type and edit text using the following tools (from left to right at the top of the window):

• Bold: use to bold text on the page

• Italics: use to italicize text on the page

• Internal hyperlink: allows you to link to another page on the wiki. Once you click on it, enter the page’s address in the brackets that pop up.

• External hyperlink: allows you to link to any page on the Internet. Once you click on it, enter the page’s address and the title of the page you are linking to. For example, to link to the New York Times homepage, you would enter http://www.nytimes.com in the brackets that pop up.

• Insert a headline break in the page: this will create a sub-section on this page

• Insert file

• Insert media file

• Insert math formula

• Insert non-formatted text

• Insert signature and time stamp for the edit

• Insert a line break on the page

2. Once you have added content that you need for your committee, click Save. (Keep in mind that you can copy/paste from your committee pages on the main LWI Website, which will save time as you convert your committee’s pages to the wiki).

How to Add Documents or other Files to Your Committee Page

1. Adding an external file (such as a PDF) to the wiki involves two steps: uploading the file and then linking the file to the committee page.

2. To upload the file: click the "Upload file" link under the Toolbox heading in the navigation bar on the left. This will add a file to the wiki's file log and create a unique internet address for that document.

3. To link the document to your Committee page: use the internal hyperlink tool described above and enter the page’s address in the brackets that pop up.

If you have any problems with or questions about this process, please e-mail Kristen Murray at kristen.murray@temple.edu or David Thomson dthomson@law.du.edu