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Lists in a Wiki June 27, 2006

Contents 1 Go over Agenda 2 Basic Unordered List 3 Basic Numbered List 4 Nested Numbered List 5 Mixed Lists 6 Unique Situations 6.1 Switch from powerpoint to wiki space 7 Next Steps 8 Ask if there are any questions

Go over Agenda

• basic lists, nested lists, mixed lists, unique situations

Basic Unordered List

• You have a line of text, something to describe it (introductory line), then you have an asterisk and put your first item, return put another asterisk and put a second item etc.
• The bullets are set by style sheet, set by the computer, this moves out of Wiki markup and into xHTML with the typical list items

Basic Numbered List

• Basically the same thing as an unordered list except it starts with a number rather than an an asterisk

Nested Numbered List

• Start with a number for the first item and then a double number for a sub item and then two numbers for another sub item and then one number for the second item etc.

Mixed Lists

• Items that would contain a number and then possibly a bulleted item under that list, here we'd have one item on the list done with a bullet and then a numbered item below that and then another numbered item below that then another bulleted item and then a numbered sub item

Unique Situations

• Where you are numbering items, but you want to have an explanatory paragraph to describe it and then you want to add a second item. As media wiki does its list, as soon as you get to a line by itself, that doesn't start with a # then it assumes the list is over

Switch from powerpoint to wiki space

Go to the Sandbox. Start with the first thing we talked about, an unordered list This is going to be an incredibly interesting list:

• This is an item
• This is another item
• Yet on more item

save the page, to change it to an ordered list you put # signs in front of the items and you can also change them to say

1. This is the first item
2. This is the second item
3. Yet one more item

save the page, it becomes 1. This is the first item 2. This is the second item 3. Yet one more item

Basically you put an asterisk in front for an unordered list and a # for an ordered list

Nested lists work in a similar way, mix the items again,

• This is an item
  1. This is the first sub item
• Yet one more item
  1. and "yet one more item's" first sub

We have a bulleted item with one below it

save the page, and it becomes

• This is an item

1. This is the first sub item

• Yet one more item

1. and "yet one more item's" first sub

Thats how you create a mixed list, you can do the same thing and turn it around and do the numbered items followed by an asterisk, basically it's the exact same procedure

Go back to just a straight numbered list

1. This is the first item
2. This is the second item
3. This is the third item

if I wanted to have some text to explain I could indent the text with a colon

this is a really difficult problem solve

and then I wanted to continues my list

1. This is the forth item

It breaks the list

Remember the rule we said, we have to put a number sign in before the colon so the list is continuous

1. This is the first item 2. This is the second item 3. This is the third item this is a really difficult problem solve 4. This is the forth item

People often start a list and then want to write a paragraph, so just remember to put the number sign before the colon so the list stays continuous, but the paragraph is not numbered (Same with bulleted lists)

The amount of the indent is determined by the style sheet

Switch back to powerpoint

Next Steps

To summarize:

• Use what you've learned, now that you know how to make lists, do it
• Fix lists of others, people often manually number lists, so you can fix them or help others to fix them
• Teach others, if they look like they need help, don't hesitate to help

Ask if there are any questions