Help/How-to-Write-a-Language-Lesson

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How to 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.

• VisualEditor User Guide

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 use the wiki code

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)

(image) <div class="pg_page_title">Vocabulary for animals in English</div> (Lesson title) ==Vocabulary==(level 1) ===The farm animals===(level 2) ===Pets=== (level 2) ==Expressions== (level 1) ==Videos== (level 1)

Here are examples of existing lessons to inspire you:

• Language/Japanese/Vocabulary/Family
• Language/French/Vocabulary/False-Friends

Lesson title

If you want to write a title for your lesson, USE the following code:

<div class="pg_page_title"> TITLE </div>

Important: do not use the heading level 1 code:

=TITLE= 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).

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

1. Create the table in Excel
2. Copy and Paste the table in the page with the Visual Editor mode.
3. Save the page
4. Edit the page, this time, with the "Edit source" tab
5. 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

1. Create your table in Excel
2. Use this free tool to create the wiki code equivalent to your Excel table
3. Edit the wiki page with the "Edit source" tab
4. Paste the code

Update a table

1. Copy the table from the html page
2. Paste in Excel
3. 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 !

Cool! you can also use HTML code 😉

If you prefer HTML, you can use it to create tables.

Don't forget to use the class="wikitable" in the table opening tag so the table will look nice.

<table class="wikitable">

 <tr>

   <td>ligne 1, column 1</td>

   <td>ligne 1, column 2</td>

 </tr>

 <tr>

   <td>ligne 2, column 1</td>

   <td>ligne 2, column 2</td>

   </tr>

</table>

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]

• More information about links

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 (AUDIO, MP3 etc.)

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 URL like this:

<youtube>[video URL]</youtube>

Example

if the URL is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ypgbP2Jn4

use the following code:

<youtube>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ypgbP2Jn4</youtube>

the video will appears as below:

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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:

1. item 1
2. item 2

Numbered List 2

#item 1

##item 12

#item 2

##item 22

The result is as followed:

1. item 1
   1. item 12
2. item 2
   1. item 21

More information about lists

HTML and CSS

If you know html and css languages, you can do many things 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

You have more questions? Check the FAQ

• Read more answers and ask questions here.

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