User talk:EconTeacherMaryB

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  Getting help   Made a mistake?   Goodies, tips and tricks Thanks. QU TalkQu 09:29, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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Class Project
If you need any help on structuring the project or the standard practices here, or any of the technicalities of using the site, please ask for help at the reading room. Don't worry about anything you get "wrong" (like naming pages incorrectly) as we can fix everything as you go along. Probably the most important thing to do is to ensure chapters in the book are created as "sub pages". This is done by naming them like this, for example, General Economics/Introduction which means they will automatically be grouped together. Once you've started we'll add an edit warning (a box that displays when people edit the pages) for you so that other editors know it is a class project and with helpful advice for your class. Although this is a wiki and you cannot prevent other people editing the pages generally people leave class projects alone until they are finished. It is a good idea to remind your class that they aren't allowed to copy / paste copyright material and it will be deleted if they do (and that includes from Wikipedia!). You might like to look at the content in Subject:Economics too. Happy editing QU TalkQu 09:29, 19 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello, I've moved the page you created to a new name General Economics (with a space and without the subpage link). The main page of a book is always like this it is the chapters that follow the "subpage" structure I was explaining above. You'll now see red links in the main page, clicking each one will create the subpages of your book. You'll also see I've added some tags to categorise the book properly. QU TalkQu 13:54, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Page Naming
Hi, can you leave a space between "General" and "Economics" when creating new pages please. I've changed the name of the one you've just created... If you look at it now you'll see near the top left there's a "back link" to the main General Economics page and also that the main page now has a nice blue link to your new page. This is the wiki software automatically maintaining the book structure for you. Thanks. QU TalkQu 16:54, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your help. I'm assuming you're the one who's been reformatting all of my mistakes. I am trying to learn, so thanks for your patience. I have been having trouble turning pages into links. Any advice is welcome. --EconTeacherMaryB (discuss • contribs) 21:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)MaryB
 * Yes that was me fixing things up. I assume your problem was the links from General Economics to the subpages? If so, I've fixed them. A link to a subpage is created by adding /subpage name/ to the main page. This is called a "wikilink" and will create a subpage called "subpage name" when you click on it. It will display on the main page as "subpage name" (without the "/"s"). If you want to display a different name, say "chapter 8: subpage name" then you do this by "piping" the link (named after the | symbol) as follows chapter 8: subpage name. This will display "chapter 8: subpage name" but link to a page that is actually called "subpage name". Why do this? Well mainly because if you want to reorder the chapters you only need to change the title of the page (i.e., the way it is displayed) rather than moving all the pages around which is more complex. There's a book here called Using Wikibooks that might help. Incidentally, I see you copied the that you can see if you edit your talk page. There's no need to do this. The tag is used to stop Wikibooks interpreting its markup language. That let's me type both Using Wikibooks and Using Wikibooks, one to show you what to type, the other to provide a link. Some of this stuff is complicated so don't get hung up on it. We can always fix the problems for you as you go along. QU <font color="#306754">TalkQu 22:24, 19 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Also, if you want to know who has changed a page you can click the "history" tab at the top of the page and if will show you all the revisions and who made them. So for your book if you click here you can see that it was me who changed the book and what I changed. This will help when reviewing your students work. <font color="#E66C2C">QU <font color="#306754">TalkQu 22:26, 19 March 2012 (UTC)