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
The following code:
[mailto:hello@example.com hello@example.com]
... will display as:
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.
Displaying images
[[Image:Nahampoana_Main_Building.jpg|left|70px|]] Align an image to the left of the text... <br clear="all">
For further info on image display, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_markup
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.
Links can be put in captions.
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>
Displaying wide images
To display an image that is generally wider than most screens in a sideways scrollable box, typically a panorama, the syntax is:
- {{Wide image|name|image width|caption|box width|alignment}}
Examples:
The below example is done by the following code:
{{wide image|Bezavona_pano2.jpg|1800px|Fort Dauphin panorama}}
To display the same image but without a caption, simply omit the caption:
{{wide image|Bezavona_pano2.jpg|1800px}}
To right-align the image while taking up 45% of the paragraph width:
{{wide image|Bezavona_pano2.jpg|1800px|Fort Dauphin panorama|45%|right}}
Or define a fixed width for the scrollbox, eg. 250 pixels:
{{wide image|Bezavona_pano2.jpg|1800px|Fort Dauphin panorama|250px|right}}
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