Help:Wiki University VisualEditor -- Tutorial

LESSON STRUCTURE
 * This is a set of short lessons designed to teach you how to edit FamilySearch Wiki with the VisualEditor.
 * The lessons are designed to help you learn in small, easy to digest bites.
 * The Exercises and Quick Quiz are at the end of each lesson. They are designed to give you some experience at using the VisualEditor and teach you additional information through questions.  Please do not pass them up.
 * The left side bar links to topics covered in this course. You can use this as an index to help you find a particular topic covered in these chapters.

WHAT IS VISUAL EDITOR?
 * It allows you to edit the Wiki without prior knowledge of any programming language.
 * However, you limited as to what you can edit or add to a page with the VisualEditor.
 * For example, to add a table, you need to know Wikitext. Here is a link to learn how to create tables in Wikitext.
 * The underlying language of the Wiki and all Wikis is Wikitext and lessons for Wikitext is available.

CAPABILITIES
 * As stated, it has limited capabilities.
 * You can edit text, but cannot create tables, templates, etc.
 * However the editing of text is much easier and faster with VisualEditor as will be shown in these lessons.
 * As we go through the lessons, we will show demonstrate how to do the same operation with Wikitext so you can see the difference.

HTML and WIKITEXT Because FamilySearch Wiki will often switch HTML coding for Wikitext, we are going to display them side by side for the topics we will cover. You will see the difference between the two codes.

TRY THESE OUT. . . . .  Quick Quiz
 * What is CSS?
 * A. Code to give character to wiki pages
 * B. Change color of text
 * C. Add background color to text
 * D. All of the above


 * What is HTML?
 * A. Stands for Hyper Text Markdown Language
 * B. Language for all of the Internet
 * C. Created from wikitext
 * D. All of the above


 * What is the left sidebar for?
 * A. List of topics covered.
 * B. Index of topics covered.
 * C. Link to chapters of the topics.
 * D. All of the above.

Check your answers