Help:Editing

Basic text editing

Some HTML tags are permitted in wikitext. The vast majority of fancy formatting seen on wikimedia sites is acheived using these limited tags (e.g. tables with CSS styles). See HTML tags in wikitext

Display an email address link

Thefollowing code:

[mailto:hello@example.com hello@example.com]

... will display:

hello@example.com

Adding Google Maps

This wiki includes Google maps and an easy map editor to create and edit Google maps on any pages.

To launch the map creation tool, click on the map button above the edit box.

Pan to the region to display, set the various size options and thereafter copy/paste the generated Google map code into the regular edit box and save the page.

• Introduction to Google Maps Extension
• Google Maps Extension syntax

Displaying images

Align an image to the left of the text...

[[Image:Nahampoana_Main_Building.jpg|left|70px|]]  Align an image to the left of the text...

<br clear="all">

Displaying image galleries

Using <gallery> ... </gallery> tags to display a thumbnail gallery with images which link to the larger versions of the uploaded images.

Images can also be individually captioned and wiki-markup can be used within captions.

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  Links can be put in captions.

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  Full MediaWiki
  syntax may now be used...

The code example of the above gallery is shown below:

<gallery>
Image:Ilakaka 001.jpg
Image:Ilakaka 002.jpg
Image:Ilakaka 003.jpg
Image:Ilakaka 004.jpg|[[Help:Contents/Links|Links]] can be put in captions.
Image:Ilakaka 005.jpg
Image:Ilakaka 006.jpg|Full [[MediaWiki]]<br />[[syntax]] may now be used...
</gallery>

Supressing Table of Contents

The table of contents (TOC) is automatically shown at the top of a page if there are four or more headings in an article. To hide this on a page, add the string __NOTOC__ anywhere in the page markup.

CSS

Modify styles in http://www.madacamp.com/MediaWiki:Monobook.css

Adding YouTube videos on pages

To embed a video from YouTube onto this wiki, simply copy the video ID from a YouTube URL, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKICKjFecxs&feature=related and paste the relevant bit into the edit form as follows:

<youtube>A45jv8uhZwo</youtube>

<youtube>A45jv8uhZwo</youtube>

External Links (various manual pages etc.)

• User's Guide
• HTML tags in wikitext
• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Displaying images
• How to edit a page
• Wikitable syntax
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages/Manual:
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages/Extension:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wide_image