Talk:Art Show

The buttons at the top of the Edit window provide a way to enhance the text you are trying to enter. To put a URL in, for example, use the fourth button from the left with the globe on it. link title

To simply link to another page of this wiki use double brackets around the name of the thing you want to link to. Main Page

To link to another Mediawiki wiki use the name followed by a colon, Wikipedia:Main Page

--Bill Taylor 20:50, 10 Oct 2005 (PDT)

I've figured bold, italic, and links. I'd love to know how to do simple bulleted numbered lists without making the formatting break into separate boxes. I'm assuming the link I used is internal.

Another question: Which is preferred? Smaller linked pages, or fewer longer ones?

And how do you get it to put your name & the date in?

Bruce M. Miller (brucemoko)

hmmm... bulleted list is asterisks I think

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Name and date are the second button from the right, at the top. --Bill Taylor 21:55, 10 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Page length is mostly just "stay on topic". If it feels like more than one concise subject, it probably is and needs to be split down. Maybe just a sub-topic (two or more balanced equal signs around the topic heading), maybe by starting a new page. --Bill Taylor 22:01, 10 Oct 2005 (PDT)

I added some topic heading markup to the article. Change or delete as you see fit. To show levels, you would add more equal signs. If the article has enough sub-topics, the software automatically puts a table of contents in.

== Major == 2 equal signs === Moderate === 3 equal signs ==== Minor ==== 4 equal signs ===== Picayune ===== 5 equal signs --Bill Taylor 22:12, 10 Oct 2005 (PDT)

Thanks for the formatting and information. I won't spend much time on formatting until I get more content in.

One more question: Does Wiki do tables? Or do you have to include them as graphics? Which would be simple, but I hate doing it - the whole point of html is that it adjusts to your browser settings, and graphics don't.

I've got to break pages. "Art Shows" may be all one subject, but it's not concise. The art show timetable has 75 items in it. I've got 10 pages (in Word) just on forms (it includes samples), three on schedules, three on panel layout (not counting the appendix on crowding panels or anything about types of panels or methods of construction), etc.

Yet another question. I made edits. You said you made further edits. But I still see the original article when I link to Art Shows. The text I put in shows up when I edit it, though. Do I have to do something else to get my edits to show up? Is there just some sort of time delay?

The short unsatisfying answer is that yes, wiki markup does do tables, but it is a pain. Or at least I think so. Here is the page that describes it Wikipedia:How_to_use_tables. The question becomes, does it really need to be a table, or can a bulleted list do the job?

There is no time delay, but you may have to force refresh your browser. I just discovered that myself a few weeks ago. If the changes are "small" your browser decides it doesn't need to get a fresh copy of the page. do a Ctrl-F5 to force the refresh.

--Bill Taylor 22:59, 10 Oct 2005 (PDT)