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Revision as of 15:45, 17 September 2008
MediaWiki Help Pages.
Contents
Quick Start
To create a new page:
- Navigate to the page where you want to add the link to your new page.
- Click the Edit tab.
- Navigate to where you wish to add a link.
- Type the name of your new page in double brackets [[new page name]].
- Click Save.
- Click on the link to the new page to edit the new page content.
NOTE: You can select existing text as the name of the page by highlighting the text and clicking on the Ab editing tool or surrounding the existing text in double bracket [[text]].
ALSO NOTE: You can name the page something different then the text and still have the text as the link in the existing page with the following: [[new name for page | link text]].
To edit an existing page:
- Navigate to the page you want to edit.
- Click the Edit tap for the section or the page you want to edit.
- The editable page with the existing markup will appear.
- use the Wiki markup language to make your edits.
- Click Save.
Wikipedia Cheatsheet | ||
Description | You type | You get |
Italicise text |
''italic'' |
italic |
Bold text |
'''bold''' |
bold |
Bold and italic |
'''''bold & italic''''' |
bold & italic |
Internal link
(within Wikipedia)
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[[Name of page]] |
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External link
(to other websites)
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[http://www.example.org Text to display] |
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Redirect to another page |
#REDIRECT [[Target page]] |
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Section headings Applies only at the very beginning of lines. A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.
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== Level 1 == |
Level 1Level 2Level 3Level 4Level 5 |
Bulleted list"
Empty lines between list items discouraged, (see numbered lists).
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* One |
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Numbered list
Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.
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# One |
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Thumbnail image |
[[Image:Wiki.png|thumb|Caption text]] |
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For Talk Pages | ||
Signature |
~~~~ |
Your username 15:14, |
Indenting Text | no indent (normal) :first indent |
no indent (normal)
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Getting started Wipipedia Links
Note: These links will take you to Meta-MediaWiki Help. You will need to use the back button to return to the Soft-Matter web site.
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