Help/How-to-Write-a-Language-Lesson
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Here are some tips to help you create a language learning lesson:
The Wiki page editing is done thanks to the MediaWiki Engine, the software used by the famous Wikipedia.
What editor choose?
You have two options:
Visual Editor
If you are new at Wiki page editing, we recommend using the visual editor which is a WYSIWYG editor.
Click the Actions > Edit button.
Creating pages is intuitive with the various buttons to format the text.
Wiki Code
If you have a little more experience, we advise you to directly use the Wiki code because you have more formatting options.
Click the Actions > Edit Source button.
How to organize a lesson
How should you organize your lesson?
To organize your lesson, and for SEO (Search engine optimization), it is good to add title and different levels of headings.
Here is an example of page structure (using the Edit Source button)
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Here are examples of existing lessons to inspire you:
Lesson title
If you want to write a title for your lesson, USE the following code:
<div style="font-size:300%;"> TITLE </div>
Important: do not use the heading level 1 code:
This heading is already used automatically for the page title (the page title is the same as the title in the URL) and we can have only have one Heading level 1 per page (for SEO reasons).
=TITLE=
Heading level 2
Use the following code :
==Vocabulary==
Heading level 3
Use the following code:
===The farm animals===
How to create headings with the visual editor
Here is a video on how to create headings and automatically add a table of content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Ebiw4-OrQ
Tables
Here are easy ways to create tables without having to use the wiki code or the visual editor:
Create a table: Solution 1
- Create the table in Excel
- Copy and Paste the table in the page with the Visual Editor mode.
- Save the page
- Edit the page, this time, with the "Edit source" tab
- At the top of the table, add the following code, this will make your table much nicer
Replace the line :
{|
By the line :
{| class="wikitable"
Or by the line :
{| class="wikitable sortable"
if you want to make it sortable
Create a table: Solution 2
- Create your table in Excel
- Use this free tool to create the wiki code equivalent to your Excel table
- Edit the wiki page with the "Edit source" tab
- Paste the code
Update a table
- Copy the table from the html page
- Paste in Excel
- Edit your table in Excel
Then update the wiki page, using solution 1 or 2 above.
How to format the table header
The table header is a special row at the top of the table with the title of each column.
Here is how to create a table header:
Edit the page with the Edit source button:
- replace the following wiki code (only the first line) :
{| class="wikitable"
|header title 1
|header title 2
|-
- with this code :
{| class="wikitable"
!header title 1
!header title 2
|-
You just have, ONLY on the first line, to replace the |
by a !
Links
Internal links
To link to a page which URL is https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/English/Grammar/To-be
inside the Polyglot club wiki, use the following code:
[[Language/English/Grammar/To-be|different text]]
External links
To link to a page outside Polyglot club wiki.
[https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
Images
- To upload an image, see this link: How to upload and format a photo?
Example:
[[File:My_pic.png|thumb|none]]
Align left
[[File:My_pic.png|thumb]]
Align right
[[File:My_pic.png|thumb|My Picture Caption]]
with a caption
Voice Recordings
See this page:
https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Help/How-to-add-audio-files
Videos
To add an embedded youtube video inside a lesson, click the EDIT CODE button.
Then, simply circle the video ID like this:
<youtube>[ID code]</youtube>
The video [ID code] can be found inside the URL of a Youtube video.
Example:
if the URL is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ypgbP2Jn4&app=desktop
The code to copy is S4ypgbP2Jn4 (between v= and &)
After inserting the following code:
<youtube> S4ypgbP2Jn4 </youtube>
the video appears as below:
Lists
Bullet list
*item 1
*item 2
The result is as followed:
- item 1
- item 2
Bullet list 2
*item 1
**item 12
The result is as followed:
- item 1
- item 12
Numbered List
:#item 1
:#item 2
The result is as followed:
- item 1
- item 2
Numbered List 2
#item 1
##item 12
#item 2
##item 22
The result is as followed:
- item 1
- item 12
- item 2
- item 21
HTML and CSS
If you know html and css languages, you can do almost any formatting like in the following lesson: https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/English/Culture/Find-the-Ideal-Penpal
Create your own page title
See this page: https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Help/Create-your-own-Page-Title
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