Difference between revisions of "Help:Editing"

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On how to edit pages

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages

On how to format pages

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

How to make a reference

Example Code:

Text you want to reference about. <ref>reference data here will appear as a footnote</ref>. 
It's in the middle of some super great writing. <ref name="Hammel, Jack">if you name a reference, you can re-use it easily</ref>
You worked really hard on making sure everything was properly cited.<ref>this is another reference</ref>
When the article was done you were proud.<ref name="Hammel, Jack />

Don't forget to output the reference table like this:
<references />

Produces:

Text you want to reference about. ^[1] It's in the middle of some super great writing. ^[2] You worked really hard on making sure everything was properly cited.^[3] When the article was done you were proud.^[2]

Don't forget to output the reference table like this:

1. ↑ reference data here will appear as a footnote
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} if you name a reference, you can re-use it easily
3. ↑ this is another reference

How to put photos from Gallery2 into Wiki pages

Simple - press the little "G" button when editing. It will make tags that look like this (I've added extra space around "Foto" so it doesn't get parsed - you should not put this extra space if you want a photo to appear):

[[ Foto :###]]

(The person who wrote the plugin is Dutch - Foto is Photo in Dutch)

You can specify the size like this - 320 in this example:

[[ Foto :1234|320]]

More info here.

How to do Tasks

Example Code:

<tasks>
[ ] A Simple Task (Name Of User Assigned to Task)
[1] A Priority 1 Task
[2] A Priority 2 Task (Name Of User Assigned to Task)
[3] A Priority 3 Task
[x] A Completed Task
</tasks>

You can make as many tasks as you like. Each task must be on its own line. Do not put anything else on the same line as a task. You do not need to assign the task to a user. The user does not have to be a vailid wiki username.

Produces:

<tasks> [ ] A Simple Task (Name Of User Assigned to Task) [1] A Priority 1 Task [2] A Priority 2 Task (Name Of User Assigned to Task) [3] A Priority 3 Task [x] A Completed Task </tasks>

How to do Syntax Highlighting

This doesn't work, don't bother.