Help/How-to-Write-a-Language-Lesson
How to create a lesson to learn languages on the Polyglot Club Wiki?
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. It is an editor WYSIWYG who is proposed by default.
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.
Useful Wiki Codes
Here are some useful markups :
Headings
To organize your lesson, and for Search engine optimization, it is good to use different levels of headings: h2, h3...
Use Heading2 and withing each Heading2, you can use Headings3 and so on: Heading4, Heading5 etc...
Do not use Heading1 because this heading is already used for the page title and we can have only one Heading1 per page.
Here is an example of page structure:
Vocabulary for animals in English
h2
==Vocabulary==
h3
===The farm animals===
h3
===Pets===
h2
==Example of use==
h2
==Expressions==
h2
==Videos==
The links
internal links
To link to a page which URL is wiki/Help inside the Polyglot club wiki, use the following code:
[[Help|different text]]
external links
To link to a page outside Polyglot club wiki.
[https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
Images
Videos
To add a Youtube video, simply circle the video ID like this:
<youtube>[VIDEO ID]</youtube>
The video ID code can be found inside the URL of a video on Youtube
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 lists
*item 1
*item 2
The result is as followed:
- item 1
- item 2
Numbered List
:#item 1
:#item 2
The result is as followed:
- item 1
- item 2
Examples
Here are examples of existing lessons to help you: