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Here is a cheat sheet for wiki markup. If any other quick help is useful, please mention it in the discussion tab. More extensive information can be found on the MediaWiki help pages. We also have some video tutorials posted here from YouTube. Wikipedia also has a good introduction to using MediaWiki. There is a categorizing page that discusses our system of page categories.
Templates
Each page should be assigned a template, by inserting at the top of text, a keyword surrounded by double curly brackets, like so:
{{effort}}
Choices of templates are provided at the top of the edit window. The same key word may also be used as a category.
Text
To change text use the following markup:
Bold = '''text''' Italic = ''text''
Links to other pages
You can create a link to any other wiki page by using the following syntax:
[[PageName|the text that appears as the link]]
the above text would create a link that looks like this: the text that appears as the link
It is good practice to create a link, and then follow the link to create a new page, so that every page has at least one link leading to it.
| Goals | Markup Syntax | Resulting text |
|---|---|---|
| Link to another wiki page - just surround the page name by double brackets | [[pagename]] | pagename |
| Link to another wiki page, but use text other than the page name - follow the page name with the text that will be seen | [[pagename|text]] | text |
| Link to a category page - requires use of a colon before the category name | [[:category:name]] | category:name |
| Link to another webpage | http://www.salishsearestoration.org | http://www.salishsearestoration.org |
| Link to another page using text - surround with single brackets, and include the text after a space | [http://www.salishsea.info text] | text |
Section Headings
By adding equals signs, you can turn text into a section heading. MediaWiki uses a outline heading system, and looks in a document and identifies headings to create a table of contents for a page.
Heading Level 1: =HeadingName= Heading Level 2: ==HeadingName==
And so on...
Images
To embed an image you need to either upload the image or have a static web-based repository and know how to use it(picasaweb or flickr or otherwise.) For on-wiki images use the following syntax:
[[file:imagename.jpg|400px|right|this is a caption]]
substituting the appropriate file name, indicating the display image width, omiting the positioning if you want it inline with text, and adding a caption as you see fit. You don't need to include any of those parameters if you don't want, nor does the order matter. You can turn an image into a link by adding the following code to your image markup:
[[file:imagename.jpg|400px|right|link=PageName|this is a caption]]
Files
You can link to a file that is uploaded in the wiki using the following code:
[[file:FileName.pdf|link text]]
Video
We have some code installed that allows you to embedd video in a wiki page. The code is simplest for YouTube and the markup looks like this, (with your YouTube video ID substituted for the text string):
<videoflash>iTVI7c4bEXQ</videoflash>
Tables
Tables are how you can organize data into columns. Here is the syntax for creating a three column table where each column takes up a third of the page.
{|
|style="width:33%;vertical-align:top;"|
Content
|style="width:33%;vertical-align:top;"|
Content
|style="width:33%;vertical-align:top;"|
Content
|}
