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 existing text in the Wiki without prior knowledge of any programming language.
 * You can add new text.
 * You can place


 * 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
 * You can edit text.
 * You can add text.
 * You can place references/footnotes, images, templates, links (interal and external), change fonts and headers.
 * You can create both bulletted or numbered lists.
 * Again these items can be added or removed without any programming knowledge.
 * In fact, the editing of text is much easier and faster with VisualEditor.

LIMITATIONS TRY THESE OUT. . . . .  Quick Quiz
 * VisualEditor is very limited in it's scope.
 * For example, you can place tables and templates but you cannot create them. For that, you need to know Wikitext.  However these lessons are available.
 * The next step up in being able to expert in creating tables and templates is to learn Wikitext. It is not hard to learn and it will greatly increase your capabilities in the Wiki.
 * As we go through the lessons, we will show demonstrate how to do the same operation with Wikitext so you can see the difference.
 * What is VisualEditor?
 * A. Edit text on a page
 * B. Place an image on a page.
 * C. Add a referrence or footnote to a word.
 * D. All of the above


 * What can you create in VisualEditor?
 * A. Paragraphs of information.
 * B. Change the size of a font.
 * C. Create a numbered list.
 * 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.

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