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Date of preparation of script: 11th November, 2010

Authors: Nilu Prahallad

Keywords: Mediawiki, Bulleted Lists, Numbered Lists, Lists

Scripts for recording

To be updated

Introduction to Lists

MediaWiki is a special software which is used to design Wikis. For any website, formatting is the key to creative and sophisticated designs.

There are two types of lists that can easily be created in the wiki. The first is a bulleted list, and the other is a numbered list. There is no button on the Editor toolbar to create lists so you will need to create them by hand using this simple syntax

Bulleted List Script

Visual Cue Narration
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  • Spoken tutorial on Lists
  • Script by Lavanya on 5th October 2010
  • Created by Lavanya
  • Talk to a Teacher
  • National Mission on Education through ICT
On behalf of IIIT-Hyderabad, this is Lavanya welcoming you to the spoken tutorial how to use bulleted lists in a Wiki page
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• User page

 In this tutorial, We will see how bulleted list can be used in wiki page
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• User page

 In this tutorial, We will see how numbered list can be used in wiki page
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• User page

 In this tutorial, We will see how combination list can be used in wiki page
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• User page

 Combination lists are obtained by combining bullets and numbers
Login with your credentials. Open browser and type http://enhanceedu.iiit.ac.in/mediawiki_sandbox. Please login with your user name and password. We are right now on the Main page.
Show wiki page There are two types of lists that can easily be created in the wiki. The first is a bulleted list, and the other is a numbered list. There is no button on the Editor toolbar to create lists so you will need to create them by hand using the simple syntax
Scroll to the top of the page and Click on edit.Type *. Creating bulleted lists in MediaWiki is very simple. In order to create a bulleted list, do the following:
  • Type asterisk (*) sign at the beginning of each line for creating a list element. To type start in the computer using keyboard press the shift key and number 8 key.This would create a bulleted list after you save the page.

As a sample type 

* my bullet


Scroll to bottom of the page and click on "Save Page" Once you clicked on Save Page, you will be able to see the bulleted list
  • my bullet
Scroll to the top of the page and Click on edit.Type ** and Type ***

Now lets see how to add the levels of the bullets in the list. The number of asterisks you add before the line will indicate the level of list element in the unordered list. For example, type ** which will indicate a second-level list element. Similarly *** will indicate a third-level list element, and so on.
As a sample: 

* my bullet
** my second bullet
*** my third bullet
Scroll to bottom of the page and click on "Save Page" Once you clicked on Save Page, you will be able to see the bulleted list as shown below:
  • my bullet 
** my second bullet
*** my third bullet
Scroll to the top of the page and Click on edit. *In order to restart a bulleted list, put a wiki line break (an empty line) at the end of the list. Then you can start another list using *. In simple words, for an example after ***, if you want to go to the previous level of the bulleted list type ** that will take you to the previous level and so * to go the main level.

As a sample: 

* my bullet
** my second bullet
*** my third bullet
** my second bullet again
* my first bullet
Show wiki page Lets learn how to create the numbered list. There is no button on the Editor toolbar to create lists so you will need to create them by hand using the simple syntax
Scroll to the top of the page and Click on edit.Type #. Creating numbered lists in MediaWiki is very simple. In order to create a numbered list, do the following:

Type hash symbol (#) sign at the beginning of each line for creating a list element. To type hash in the computer using keyboard press the shift key and number 3 key.This would create a numbered list after you save the page. As a sample: 

#India
Scroll to bottom of the page and click on "Save Page" Once you clicked on Save Page, you will be able to see the numbered list saying 1. like this as you can see on the screen.
  1. India
Scroll to the top of the page and Click on edit.Type ## and Type ###

Now lets see how to add the levels of the numbers in the list. The number of hash (#) you add before the line will indicate the level of list element in the unordered list. For example, type ## which will indicate a second-level list element. Similarly ### will indicate a third-level list element, and so on. 

#India
##Andhra Pradesh
###Hyderabad
Scroll to bottom of the page and click on "Save Page" Once you clicked on Save Page, you will be able to see the numbered list in levels as you can see below:
  1. India
    1. Andhra Pradesh
      1. Hyderabad
Scroll to the top of the page and Click on edit. *In order to restart a bulleted list, put a wiki line break (an empty line) at the end of the list. Then you can start another list using #. In simple words, for an example after ##, if you want to go to the previous level of the numbered list type # that will take you to the previous level.

As a sample: 

#India
##Andhra Pradesh
###Hyderabad
##Tamilnadu
#USA


Scroll to bottom of the page and click on "Save Page" Once you clicked on Save Page, you will be able to see the numbered list as shown below:
  1. India
    1. Andhra Pradesh
      1. Hyderabad
    2. Tamilnadu
  2. USA
Show wiki page Now that we have learnt how to create bullet and numbered list, we will now see how to create a list that has combination of bullets and numbers. This list is known as "Combination List"
Scroll to the top of the page and Click on edit.Type #. Creating combination lists in MediaWiki is very simple. In order to create a numbered list, do the following:

Type hash symbol (#) sign at the beginning of each line for creating a list element.This would create a numbered list. After the # symbol press enter and type * to have a bulleted list to appear As a sample: 

#India
*My Country
Scroll to bottom of the page and click on "Save Page" Once you clicked on Save Page, you will be able to see the numbered list saying 1. like this as you can see on the screen.
  1. India
  • My Country
Scroll to the top of the page and Click on edit. Yes, it is also possible to combine the # (hash) and * (star) in the combination list. For example we have can have a numbered bullet with # and in order to have a nested bullet we can type #* together for the combination bullet.

As a sample: 

# The first item 
#* The first nested bullet 
#* The second nested bullet 
# The second item


Scroll to bottom of the page and click on "Save Page" Once you clicked on Save Page, you will be able to see the combination list as shown below:
  1. The first item
    • The first nested bullet
    • The second nested bullet
  2. The second item
Show wiki page The references used are from wikipedia and wiki educator.
Show wiki page The Mediawiki tutorials are created as part of the SPOKEN TUTORIAL PROJECT, an initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ project, developed at IIT Bombay. The project is coordinated by http://spoken-tutorial.org. Funding for this work has come from the National Mission on Education through ICT, launched by MHRD, Government of India. For more details pls watch http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro

This brings us to the end of the tutorial on how to create bulleted, numbered and combination lists in MediaWiki. The script for this tutorial was written by ****** and this is ###### from IIIT-Hyderabad. Thank You.

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