March 21, 2018, Wednesday

# Edit

• The following is a quick reference to Wiki editing. If you need a more thorough reference, please visit the Wikipedia guide. They also have a LaTeX reference.
• Wiki editing is quick and easy. The following is meant to help you quickly create Wiki pages, but if you see something cool remember that all you have to do is hit the edit button to see how it was done.

## Creating a page

• To create a page simply link (details) to a page that doesn't exist yet. The link will be red, and when you click on it you'll be brought to the edit tab of the new page, where you can now construct it. Once its created, the link will appear normal.

## Editing a page

• A Wiki is simply a collection of pages bound together by a set of links, along with a really easy way to edit the pages. Once you have logged in (available in the top right corner), an edit button becomes available at the top of the page. Click in and you'll have access to the page's source. What you'll see is the unformatted text along with some markup. You simply change the text and add markup as you need.

## Text Formatting

Wiki text formatting is made to be quick and reliable. For the most part, you can get away with simply typing in what you need. You'll probably only need a couple of the following tools.

### Font style

• To make text italicized, simply add a pair of single quotes around the text. ''Hello'' becomes Hello.
• Making something bold is similar, simply add three single quotes. '''Biology rox''' becomes Biology rox.
• To do both bold and italics, use five single quotes '''''No one came to the party''''' becomes No one came to the party.

### Paragraph Indenting

• To give a bullet to a paragraph of text (the squares to the left) simply add a * and a space before the paragraph.
• To make a numbered list, simply add a # and a space before each numbered item
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
• Adding sub-items simply requires ##. Sub-sub-items can be done using ###, for example...
1. Item 1
1. Sub-item

• You can also leave comments in the code, which won't be rendered to the output. This is done by surrounding the comment with <!-- Hello thar -->.

### Special Text

• If you would like to highlight some section of code, you can use the <pre>stuff</pre> tags around the code. This will provide the gray background and set it apart.
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main( String args[] ) {
System.out.println( "Hello World" );
}
}

• If you would like to add some code inline use the <code>stuff goes here</code> tags.
• If you would like to put in some text that shouldn't be evaluated by the Wiki, then stick it inside a pair of <nowiki>stuff can go here without being bothered</nowiki>

### Math and LaTex

• This Wiki supports Latex! You can add LaTeX inline by simply surrounding it with  tags. For example $x_{t+\delta} = \lambda e^\delta x_t$ produces

$x_{{t+\delta }}=\lambda e^{\delta }x_{t}$

• To link to a page inside the wiki, put a pair of square brackets around the title of the page you would like to link to. For example [[Bortz]] becomes Bortz.
• If you would like to title the link something other than the destination page, add a vertical bar and then your text. For example [[Bortz|David M Bortz]] becomes David M Bortz.