Riedelbs

This page is meant as an initial markup tutorial for a class that I teach at Rice University.

Name of Person should always appear in bold. Put three single quotes on each side to mark that.

Basics of Markup

External links, such as Houston ARCH can be made by putting a single square bracket on each side. Within the brackets, the url goes first, then a space, and then the name you'd like to appear in the text as the link. Stylistically, prefer to put the external links in their own section at the end of the article, after the citations/reference list. Links internal to wikipedia, such as Annise Parker, can be made by putting double square brackets on each side of the text you wish to appear as the link. If your article has a lot of stuff to explain, wikifying it by adding the internal Wikipedia links can be a good way to compact the text, and explain jargon-like concepts like heteronormativity.

If you want to leave a space between paragraphs in an entry, just leave a blank line. If lines are adjacent, or don't start with a formatting command, they'll be collapsed to a single paragraph. It's up to you whether you leave blank lines in your source text to navigate it more easily. It may be easier to edit line by line if each sentence is its own line.

More Detailed Markup

To create a new heading, put double equal signs on each side of the text. Don't worry about the "contents box." It generates itself based on the headings you make up.

Subheadings, anyone?

You can put subheadings under a major heading by increasing the number of equal signs on each side of the desired text.

Minor Subheading

You can really go crazy with the levels, if you don't watch it. Rule of thumb: is it readable?

Really Minor Subheading

See what I mean?

Italics

Put double single quotes around the object you want to be in italics. Don't shift to put the "double quotes" or else you'll just get quotation marks.

How To Do Citations

Citations to your references can be added into the text by using the reference markers. They resemble old school html mark up, with the angle brackets around the command, and the slash in the terminating command. (See the edited text.) Put the opening marker where you want the citation to appear in the text. Wikipedia formats the rest of it, just be sure to use the reflist template in double curved brackets where you want the citation list to appear. If you want to use the same reference twice in different places, you need to do a little more work. There's a good explanation of citations on Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners.

Categories

To make our pages appear in the right places, we'll need to properly categorize them. Let's look at the editing code for Feminist economists, many of which were added by students in a class taught by Diana Strassmann, who you'll notice doesn't have an article about her yet, because the link is in red.

Markup Cheatsheet

If you ever get lost or forget the codes, it's all online in Wikipedia itself: wp:cheatsheet.

External Links

• Rice University houses SWGS 201, the "Introduction to LGBT Studies"
• Houston ARCH will also house the Community Research Projects from that class.
• OutSmart Magazine has published articles about this class and Houston ARCH.