Simple Hampedia Tutorial for Students

If you are a student at Hampshire College, please follow the instructions below to create your profile.

Tips Before You Begin

 * This [Wiki Cheatsheet] shows you all the common ways to edit your page..
 * LINK EVERYTHING!! That’s what’s so cool about wikis. You don’t have to describe your professors, just link to their profile pages! Linking is easy and fun, just put  on each side of the word(s) that should be a link to a different page.
 * To link to a page on Wikipedia, place the tag ":wikipedia:" inside the double brackets like so: Hampshire College . It will look like this: Hampshire College. Note that if you do not specify display text, such as wikipedia:Hampshire College, it will appear as wikipedia:Hampshire College, which is not nearly as clean-looking.
 * ALWAYS search for a page before creating it. Someone else may have already created the page – you don’t want doubles floating around.
 * Do NOT post copyrighted material, unless permissible under fair-use policy.
 * Read the Policies page to make sure you’re respecting the rules of Hampedia – and if you disagree with them, speak up in the “Discussion” section!

Login
1. Sign in with your Hampshire username and password.



Username
2. Click on your username in the top right-hand corner.

Click on "Edit."

Save Page
'''3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on "Save Page." ALWAYS save your page after changing any aspect of it! I put this step in early as a reminder....'''

Editing Box
'''4. Click on "Edit" again, if you saved your page. In order to edit the box on the right-hand side, click on "Wikitext."'''



After you have filled in the student box, click on "wikitext" again to undo it so that you can just use the text-editing tools as you would in a Word document!

Adding Categories to Your Profile
5. Go to the List of Categories for Students Profiles page, and copypaste any categories that apply to you onto your profile page.

Fill Out Your Profile
'''6. Now for the fun part- make your profile your own! Write a little about yourself, document your courses and clubs, list your interests, put up some work you're proud of - be creative!'''

Cool Things to do on your Profile

 * Add your classes! Or, even better, add links to your classes, and make pages for them, like this. (Easily done by copypasting information from the class website.)
 * Share your work! Put up movies you’ve made, music you’ve composed, papers you’ve written, your Division I, II, or III – put up everything you’ve done that you take pride in, and share it with everyone else!
 * What professors have you worked closely with? Others with similar interests would love to know which profs you have found and enjoyed working with – help them navigate the Hamptrix by sharing this and other helpful information.
 * Write and edit articles! Hampedia is a place where everyone can and should contribute! For example…
 * Make a page for your club
 * Update your dorm/mod page
 * Be creative!

Examples
Some good examples of profile pages (If you are not sure about how they formatted their page, click on“edit” on their student page, copy their information, paste it into your“edit” page, and change it so that it’s about you!):


 * Ananda Valenzuela
 * Adam Krellenstein
 * Jose Fuentes

Uploading a File
Want to put up a profile picture, a paper you wrote, or music you composed? Here's how!

1. In a separate tab/window, click on "Upload file," which is in the left-hand column.

2. Click on "Browse," find the image you want, and write a short description so that it is clear why the photo is being uploaded.

3. Click on "Upload file."

4. Copy the file name.

Adding an Image File
'''To put it in your student box, simply paste the file name in the "image=" line! If you want to put a picture up somewhere else, here's how:'''

Click on the image icon.



'''Paste the file name into the "Image file name" box, and choose whatever options you desire. Hit "OK" and you're done!'''



Adding Other Files
Simply write wherever you want the link to the file to appear on your page.

Email Notifications
'''Want to get email updates every time someone edits your profile page? It's easy to do! You can get an email notification for any page you choose to "watch." Simply do the following:'''

Click on "my preferences."



'''Scroll down, click on "Email me when a page on my watchlist is changed," and click "Save." And you're done!'''