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General Wiki Editing

It may help to remember that postings on a wiki can always be edited again later, by you or by others. I find that this takes a lot of the stress out of the editing process, since you know that you can always go back and fix things -- and that others can also fix any obvious errors they might spot, or add their own information to yours.

It may also help to remember that earlier versions are always saved; wiki admins have the magic power of reverting a page to an earlier form with a few mouse-clicks, but even ordinary mortals can retrieve lost bits of text from earlier versions of a page by clicking the "history" tab.

For more technical information about MediaWiki, see the HTYP MediaWiki article.

Basic Layout

• Bold and Italic are easiest to do by highlighting the text you want affected and clicking the bold or italic button at the top of the edit window.
• Internal Links to other pages within the same wiki follow this form: [[Name of Page|text for link]]
• External Links to web pages outside the wiki follow this form: [http://google.com/ Google]
• Headers are indicated by enclosing the header text within equals signs: =Level 1 Header= ... ==Level 2 Header== ... and so on.
• Lists are indicated by beginning the line with any of the following characters: "*" for bullets, "#" for numbered lists, ":" for indentation with no mark or numbering. You can also combine these, e.g. if a line starting with "#" is followed by a line starting with "##", that line is double-indented and begins its own numbering. The next line starting with just "#" resumes the original numbering. (There's a page about this somewhere in the MediaWiki Manual, but at the moment I can't find it.)

More Specific Stuff

• /images: how to do stuff with images

Related Pages

• Sandbox for editing practice

Configuration

• MediaWiki:Sidebar: for editing the control bar on the left
• MediaWiki:Common.css: stylesheet overrides for all users
• MediaWiki:Hf-nsfooter-: footer for main namespace
• MediaWiki:Hf-nsfooter-File: footer for File namespace
• project:Transclude: pages transcluded outside of MediaWiki

Scripting libraries:

• project:code/lib/data: functions for displaying data pages
• project:forms/handling/blog/post: template for creating a blog post from the form
• project:w3tpl/lib/doc: document markup

Forms:

• project:forms/blog/post - form for creating a blog entry

Tools:

• Special:FinanceFerret - checkbook balancing

Archive

This is an index to pages that aren't currently relevant, but which we keep for historical reference.

• Current events/archive
• User:Woozle/to-do/archive
• Woozle/to do/archive -- a different list
• HypertWiki:Current events/archive

This page needs to be archived somewhere; I kept it as an amusing example of a misconfigured spambot demonstrating the syntax used for generating spam: Dating, Romance, love As well as Marriage the way to be glad at the Process