How to remove the title of a wiki page. How to create a VKontakte wiki page for a group
Social network VK is constantly being improved, offering users the broadest opportunities for communication, promotion of goods and services. One of the innovations was the so-called wiki pages. What it is and how to make a VKontakte wiki page for a group will be discussed in this article.
Reference! Wiki markup allows you to create truly vibrant and colorful communities with many graphic and text elements. These include bold, underlining, lists, headings, etc.
At first glance, creating wiki pages for may seem like an overwhelming task. But it’s enough to figure it out once so that there are no difficulties later.
Reference! There is no direct ability to create wiki markup on a public page. Therefore, you will have to use a special link.
Here is a short guide on how to create a wiki page on your public page:
- Copy the link https://vk.com/pages?oid=-***&p=Page name. Paste it into the address bar of your browser.
- Change the word Title to the name of your future page. And instead of ***, indicate the ID of the public. Press Enter.
- A form for creating a wiki page will open in the window. All that remains is to fill it out correctly.
- In the top line write the name of the future page. For example, Menu, Group Rules, We offer, etc.
- Write the text in the bottom field and format it according to your wishes. Here you can create bulleted lists, highlight headings, use bold text and italics.
- The page can also be supplemented with photographs, video and audio files, links to external sites and internal VKontakte pages.
- In the lower left part of the screen there is a Page Access hyperlink, which limits the circle of users who will be able to view new materials (all users, only subscribers, only editors and administrators).
- To view the intermediate result, click the Preview button. When the work is finished, click the Save Page button.
At this point, the process of creating a wiki page in the VK public can be considered complete.
How to make a wiki page in a VK group
Making a wiki page in a VKontakte group is even easier than in a public page. No preliminary preparation is required here; all functionality is directly accessible to administrators and group owners.
You've probably heard that if you create a VKontakte Wiki page, you can forget about the boring and banal presentation of information. After all, when publishing a post on your profile, you are limited only by text, link and image. As a rule, this is a short explanation of the photo and may be the address of a third-party resource. No design, no design options. A wiki page is free of these limitations - it is based on wiki markup, similar to HTML, but much simpler. If you are interested in a live example, take a look at Wikipedia. , italics, tables, photographs and much more all help create visual articles.
What is a VKontakte Wiki page?
Before you start step by step instructions How to create a Wiki page on VKontakte, you need to understand the concept itself. So, what is it: VKontakte Wiki page and what is it for?
Wiki page on VK is a special markup format that allows you to independently edit and format the display of information on the site. With its help, you can set the design of the group menu, select fonts, insert graphic elements, set table parameters, change themes to suit your mood, and much, much more. And all this without using the standard, extremely limited tools provided by the social network.
Why this is needed is probably already clear. Without using markup, your page/group will look quite gray and banal. To be noticed, you need to attract attention. What could be easier if you have at your fingertips a huge list of tools that will help you stand out from other authors?! Simply insert tables, use links and lists, highlight text in different fonts, create product catalogs or write posts with colorful photo collages! And all this using a layout language that is accessible to everyone! Great? Wrong word!
Creation of a VK Wiki page
The rules for creating wiki markup largely depend on whether you plan to promote through a community or through a public page. We remind you that these two types are significantly different from each other. For example:
- A group can be closed for viewing by all users except its members. Or you can close individual functions (such as comments);
- the “Latest News” section is available for group owners;
- but public owners can create events, while documents can be uploaded to the community.
Due to significant differences in functionality, we will consider each option separately. So let's begin.
In the community
How to make a VKontakte wiki page for a group, let’s figure it out step by step:
- Open the VK group and select “Management”.
- Go to sections.
- Click next to the text “Materials”. You can choose open and limited. In the first case, all participants will be able to create resources, in the second - only persons with the status “administrator” or “editor”.
- You can create content in a simple text editor.
- To save a wiki page, click the button of the same name. Preview available.
Now by option "Latest News" you will be taken to the created wiki page.
You can create a VKontakte wiki markup in the editor: to go to it, click the “<>", located on the right. Detailed description rules, as well as the course “Creating a Wiki page on VKontakte”, examples for it, you will find in the learning community.
In public
It’s even easier to create such a Wiki page on VKontakte - it will automatically appear when you enter an address like this in the browser:
http://vk.com/pages?oid=-XXXXX&p=NAME
- oid – community identifier, taken from the address when the public is open on VK.
- NAME – a name that you come up with yourself. By the way, remember that you’re right, it’s not a simple matter, and brainstorming for the evening, or even a week, is definitely provided for you.
To create, follow these steps:
- Enter the address and press Enter.
- On the new screen, click on the button "Fill with content".
- Once everything is ready, copy the ID in the address bar and paste the link into your menu. Then you can remove it, the text will still remain in place.
The main thing is not to forget to set the conditions for editing in the access settings "Group Leaders Only". Otherwise, you risk finding yourself in an awkward situation when the participants, for the sake of a joke, change the recording at their own discretion.
Thanks to markup, you can also add an image to the text of the post. If, after publication, you click on such a photo, you will see not an enlarged copy of it, but the Wiki page itself.
Menu for a group
Now let's move on to the question of how to make a VKontakte wiki menu for a group. Essentially, it's just a set of links that can be attached to text or pictures. You need to start creating by selecting a picture from your album and copying the link. After this, all that remains is to enclose it in double square brackets(For example, []). After this, you can start editing the image as you wish. You can add text using the text tag or insert a link via link tag.
That is, to put it briefly, in order for a menu to appear on your page, you need to create a set of graphic buttons and place them in the content area. For each element, insert a link to another wiki page. As a result, you will see that the following type of markup has appeared in the code:
The destination of the transition is highlighted in bold: it could be your wiki page or one belonging to another community - it doesn’t matter.
To create a link to a third-party resource relative to VK, select a picture or text and click the anchor icon. In the “Link” field, enter the address, for example http://ya.ru.
Access for viewing and editing
- Copy his full address and paste it into a community post or on your profile.
- The resource logo will appear at the bottom, after which the link can be deleted.
- When you click on a post, the content will open in a separate window. At the top you will see a transition to editing.
- Using a button "Page access" Allow or deny access to specific user groups.
How to delete a wiki page?
Unfortunately, at present you cannot destroy the created resource, since it is impossible to delete a VKontakte wiki page. Remove all links to it, deny access to all VK users, and the resource simply will not appear. If you don’t remember her address, then she will also cease to exist for you.
Please note that when creating a wiki page in contact, it is worth remembering some features of its placement:
- Currently, the site supports 100% display of information, so when creating markup, do not set a different value. Otherwise, when other users view your page, the picture may “float”;
- unfortunately, this type layout does not adapt to mobile version. Therefore, when creating, constantly check how information from your group is displayed in the application;
- For markup, the length of characters in the link is very important (limit - 6 characters). So remember before you paste them into the text.
- do not use special characters in the name (for example, +, _, *). It is possible that problems may arise during encoding of such characters.
- choose one layout option: either a virtual editor or wiki markup.
Tag set
There is a small set of tags that allows you to create markup for your own resource in VK. Let's look at some approaches to VKontakte wiki markup for dummies; you will find templates below.
You can find the tags necessary for the work in the document by downloading it by clicking on the button.
Text
Markup provides much more design options than the editor's limited set of tools.
Thus, Wiki markup can be extremely useful if used wisely. Follow the simple rules we described and diversify your page!
Using wiki markup, you can design a group menu, analytical articles, cases, and instructions. Of course, you will need to spend a little more time on this than on creating the usual posts on the wall. But the more you bother with content design, the more grateful your audience will be.
How Wiki Markup Works
Wiki markup is a language that is used to layout pages. Conventionally, it can be called the younger brother of HTML. Wiki pages make it easy to write and format text, insert illustrations, videos, links, and tables. Can be made up simple article or create a whole interactive guide with chapters and subheadings.
The width of any wiki page is 607px. The height is limited only by the number of characters; there can be about 16,000 in total.
All wiki markup is based on tags, just like HTML. There are single tags (for example,
- line break) and paired ones (for example, bold text).
How tags work for text in wiki markup
In some cases, wiki markup uses simplified syntax (tags are replaced with typographic characters). For example, to create bulleted list Asterisks “*” are used, and hash marks “#” are used for numbered ones.
How typography works in wiki markup
All existing tags and methods of using them are collected in the officialVKontakte wiki markup community . Use the materials of this community as a reliable cheat sheet. In this article we will go over the basic principles of working with wiki markup and show you step by step how to use it to create group pages and menus.
IN standard editor Wiki pages have two modes: visual and wiki markup mode (the switch button looks like this:<>).
This is what the active wiki markup mode looks like
A simple text with a couple of pictures can be made up in visual mode. This is a regular text editor and does not require any knowledge of wiki markup. But if you want a neat wiki page with tables, links and embedded videos, you can only do it in markup mode - using code.
How to create a wiki page
The “Create a new page” button does not exist in the interface of VKontakte itself. Therefore, we are talking about two methods, standard and advanced (using the application).
Standard
For the group.Go to “Community Management” → “Sections” → “Materials” and select “Open” or “Restricted”.
How to enable “Materials” in a group
Now the “Latest News” section will appear on the group’s main page. This is the location for the group's proposed menu. To create a new page, you can write its name directly in the “Latest News” page editing mode, enclose it in square brackets, click on “Preview” and get a ready-made link to the new page.
How to create a new page via Latest News
For the public.To create a new page, you need to find out the id of your public. To do this, go to the “Community Statistics” section. In the address bar of your browser you will see code like this:
https://vk.com/stats?gid= 123456789
The required group id is all the numbers after “gid=”.
Now you need to enter the following code into the address bar of your browser:
https://vk.com/pages?oid=-ХХХ&p=Page_Name
Instead of XXX we substitute the id of the public, and instead of “Page_Name” - the name that you came up with. The name can use Cyrillic, Latin and numbers. It is not forbidden to use special characters, but it is better not to take risks: because of them, you may lose the ability to edit the page. We paste all the data into the right places, press Enter, and the browser will open the created page.
Using the app
VKontakte developers recommend using three applications for working with wiki markup:"Mobivik" , "Source code" and "Vicky Poster".
In this guide, we will take the Mobivik application as an example. In November 2017, it received second prize in the VKontakte Start Fellows program. Works without installation and additional registration in the desktop, mobile version of VKontakte and in the phone application (the developer recommends using versions no earlier than Android 5.1, iOS 9 and Windows Phone 8.1).
To create a new page, on the main screen of the application, select the desired group and enter a name new page, and then click "Get Link".
How to create a new page using the Mobivik application
Links to the new wiki page in the Mobivik application
Here is a life hack for those cases when you have made a complex page with a large number of elements, and are afraid that the layout will not work on a small screen. Copy the address from the “Code for wiki page” item. Go into edit mode of your page and paste it at the very beginning of the code. You will get an image like this:
When the user clicks on it, they will be taken to the Mobivik app, which will show a neat mobile version of your page.
On the left is the LIVE community menu page, open on mobile,
on the right - it’s the same, but opened through Mobivik
How to get a link to a wiki page
How to find a page that was created earlier? The simplest and most reliable method is to copy all wiki page addresses to separate file, for example, in Google Sheets. Another way is through any application for working with wiki pages. For example, go to Mobivik, select the name of the community and desired page, click “Get link” and copy the address from the “Link to wiki page” item.
How to get a link to a previously created wiki page
How to make a post with a link to a wiki page
Copy the link to the wiki page and paste it into new entry on your wall or on a community wall. If everything is done correctly, the site will generate a link block under the post text field. Now remove the link text itself, attach the banner and click “Submit”. In the desktop version, the banner will also become a link to the wiki page, and in the mobile version it will open as a regular image.
The image attached to the post will become part of the link to the wiki page in the desktop version
Text
The possibilities for formatting text in wiki markup generally do not differ from those of ordinary text editor. When editing the text itself (make it bold, align to the right, etc.), we use wiki markup tags, do not forget to close them:
To structure the text in wiki markup, combinations of typographical characters are provided. For example, this code "—- " will put a horizontal dividing line in the text, and this ":: " - double indentation before the paragraph.
You can fit about 16 thousand characters on one page.
Links
To make the text visible instead of the address, add the name of the link:
[] - to the user profile
[] - on home page communities
[] - to another wiki page
[] - to a VKontakte meeting
Pictures
The maximum width of an image that can be used in wiki markup is 607px, which is the width of the wiki page itself. The height is practically unlimited (remember that the height of the page itself is 16,000 characters). Images can be uploaded in two ways.
Using the loader in the top menu of the editor.
Using code.We upload the picture to a separate album of the group, open it, and in the address bar we see a long code like this
https://vk.com/club12345678?z=photo-12345_12345%2Falbum-12345678_12345678
Copy the id of the picture from it (highlighted in bold). Then we frame it with double square brackets and paste it into the right places on the page. It turns out something like this:
[]
What's next? Edit alignment, text wrapping, size, link. To do this, write the required parameters after the vertical bar and separated by a semicolon. For example, in this code we set the image size 300x100px and text wrapping on the right:
Video
First, you need to upload a video to community videos. After downloading, open the video and copy its id (in bold) from the address bar.
https://vk.com/videos-12345678?z=video-12345_12345%2Fclub12345678%2Fpl_-12345678_-2.
We frame this with square brackets and get this code:
We get a small picture with a play icon, which, when clicked, opens a full-fledged video player. In order for the video to be played on the page itself, VK developers suggest using the tag player.
But here we get a disproportionate black border around the video:
To remove it, you need to adjust the player size to the size of the video itself. For example, in our case the following parameters were suitable:
We received the video without black frames, it will play directly on the page
Tables
If you want to beautifully structure the content of your wiki page and ensure it displays neatly on mobile devices, you can’t do without a table. Here you will need the following simple signs:
When working with tables, you can use 4 tags: noborder (makes table frames invisible), nomargin (makes the table the full width of the wiki page), nopadding (removes indents in cells) and fixed (allows you to create a table of fixed sizes).The number of cells you specify in a row determines the number of columns in the table.
Here is an example table2x2 without indentation at the top and bottom of the text inside cells:
The width of the first column is 200px, the width of the second is 300px.
Here's what came out of it:
You can place text, pictures, audio and video recordings in table cells.
How to make a wiki menu
The VK group menu is not some kind of separate functionality, but simply a wiki page with several pictures, each of which contains a link to a specific page. In fact, everything is simple here.
- Preparing the cover for the menu.You can take any suitable picture and put text on it. Or you can hire a designer who will draw you beautiful blocks and buttons. We will have a menu with 6 buttons. To do this, we need a picture where these buttons will be indicated. Let's decide on its size.
When preparing an image for the menu, remember that the width of the wiki page is 607 px. The width of the image should not be larger, otherwise the image will shrink and lose quality. For example, we took an image measuring 510x300 px.
- Cut this picture into 6 parts(one part for each button). It is convenient to do this in Adobe Photoshop"Cutting" tool. If you don’t want to bother, use, for example, an online service IMGonline (cuts the pictures into equal parts). We did everything in Photoshop.
With the “Cutting” tool active, right-click on the picture and select “Divide Fragment”, indicate the required number of fragments and click “OK”.
How to cut a picture in Photoshop
Our menu will be designed as a table of 6 cells: three rows and two columns. To do this, we cut the image for the menu into 6 equal parts measuring 255x100 px. The same size will need to be entered for each cell.
- Create a frame for the table.We go into editing mode for a new page and create a table. We open it with the tag (| and immediately set three important parameters:
- nopadding - will allow the pictures to touch
- noborder - will hide visible table borders
- fixed - allows you to set the exact dimensions of the cells.
We specify a fixed cell width - 255px 255px (twice, because there are also two columns). Next, we set the places for the beginning of new lines with the |- tag and new cells (columns) with the | tag. . We close the table with the |) tag and get the following frame:
- Place pictures in cells and set links for them. One by one, open the necessary parts of the picture in the community album, copy their id from the browser line ( photo-12345_12345) , enclose in double square brackets, write down the dimensions 255x100px and nopadding tag for gluing pictures. After the vertical bar we assign a link for each button. We get the following code.
(|noborder nopadding fixed
|~255px 255px
|-
| []
|-
| []
| []
|-
| []
| []
|}
- Ready!Click “Save Page” and we get a convenient menu for the community.
Ready-made group menu in the desktop version
Ready-made group menu in the mobile version
If you made a menufor a group, then it will be easily accessible by clicking on “Latest News” (by the way, this page can be renamed to “Menu” in editing mode).
If you made a menufor public, then it can be placed in a prominent place under the name of the community using a pinned entry.
To pin a menuin the group, publish a post with a banner and a link to the wiki page on behalf of the community (if you publish on your own behalf, it will be impossible to pin the page).In public there will be no problems with fastening: there You can pin a post by any author.
How to make a post with a link to a menu in public
How to pin the community menu
New VKontakte article editor and wiki markup
The VKontakte administration announced the launch of the article editor on December 22, 2017 and positions it as a tool for publishing longreads.
Some users decided that it was created to replace wiki markup. But it’s too early to draw such conclusions, because the functionality of the editor is still quite poor. It cannot edit media files (size and alignment) or make tables, and hyperlinks can only be assigned to text. There are no tags or code, there is only a visual mode, like in a regular text editor.
From this it is clear that it is still possible to create a convenient menu for the community or a wiki landing only using wiki markup. What will happen next - time will tell.
This is what the interface of the new VKontakte article editor looks like
What to remember about wiki markup
- The standard method of creating wiki pages is laborious and not very convenient. The easiest way to create a page is through the Mobivik, Source Code or Wiki Poster application.
- The community menu needs to be made into a table so that it looks neat on mobile devices.
- When editing a wiki page in the standard interface, you should not switch between visual editing mode and wiki markup mode. Because of this, the layout may be affected.
It is not necessary to remember all the tags, just keep the link to hand
Question for experts: what are VKontakte wiki pages?
Sincerely, NaDyu Sik
Best answers
Positive:
Like Wikipedia probably
Kirill Vnogradov:
Have you ever seen beautifully designed VKontakte groups? this was done using special WIKI markup. And why exactly WIKI markup is because this markup was invented by Wikipedia, and then it came to VKontakte. If I'm wrong correct me
Wiki - (English wiki) a website, the structure and content of which users can jointly change using tools provided by the site itself. The most famous wiki site is Wikipedia. The term "wiki" was first used to describe a website in 1995 by Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki system, WikiWikiWeb, who borrowed a Hawaiian word meaning "quick". Later, the English backronym What I Know Is… was coined for this word.
Video response
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Answers from experts
~Vreda~:
select the menu - edit - and there at the top right - wiki =))
Vladimir Visited:
It is impossible to delete a page, you can only forget about it. Change all your data and forget about it. Over time it will be removed by moderators.
Here's what Wiki writes about this:
Make the first and last name Deleted deleted, delete the page and not appear there for a month. It will be deleted automatically.
If you start spamming, you will be quickly deleted)))
“Durov and Company” says that by going to the “Settings” section, in the “page visibility” subsection you can specify “do not show, delete page.”
According to the Vkontakte blog, in a month, information about your account should be erased from the Service database. I say the names of the links from memory because I did it all. I’m just not sure that this is really true [that the information has been erased] - because I can’t check it either.
My Settings >> Privacy >> Who can view my page >> Nobody, delete page >> Save
This will lead to the fact that all information on your page will be deleted and you will never receive any notification from the site again.
natalimo:
About 90 thousand people register in contact every day. Among them, from time to time there are those who want to delete their page.
Unfortunately, most cases of page deletion occur after hacking. Therefore, to avoid complete loss of the page, users should delete all contact and other information from it to delete the page, and then do the following:
My Settings >> Privacy >> Who can see my page >> Only me >> Save
This will lead to the fact that all information on your page and your page will be hidden from all users of the site, and you will never receive a single notification from the site again. If you ever need to restore the page, you can use the password reminder form.
Questions and answers:
Q: Why can’t I immediately delete all information without the possibility of recovery?
A: Up to 80% of the requests we received for immediate deletion were from attackers who had taken over someone's account. Imagine that after working in a computer class or club you forgot to press the “Exit” button. After this, your account could be immediately deleted without the possibility of recovery. This led to a flood of complaints.
In addition, as it turned out, most of those who were leaving asked to “return everything back and restore the information” within a week.
Igor Schastlivtsev:
