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The most basic text editing features, such as boldface, italics and links can be formatted with help of the buttons above the edit box. Alternatively, the syntax is simple. For '''bold text''', enclose the word(s) within three single quotes:

<nowiki>'''</nowiki>'''bold text'''<nowiki>'''</nowiki>

For ''italictext'', enclose the text with two single quotes:

<nowiki>''</nowiki>''italic text''<nowiki>''</nowiki>

To link a text to another page within the wiki, enclose the word in double square double brackets:

<nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[Anakao]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki>

<nowiki>[http://www.examplepinterest.com exampe/madacamp MadaCamp Pinterest board]</nowiki>

This will result in [httpappear as://www.example.com exampe]

Alternatively, typing out the full URL without the brackets[http: //pinterest...com/madacamp MadaCamp Pinterest board]

<nowiki>http://wwwAlternatively, type a full URL without the brackets, e.exampleg.com</nowiki>:

<nowiki>http://pinterest... will result in the link appearing as follows:com/madacamp</nowiki>

http://www.example.com. to display the link as follows:

http://pinterest.com/madacamp To make a listing, simply prefix the list items with asterixes: ...

Nested lists can be made are done as follows: ...

... which will appear as follows:

Some HTML tags are permitted in wikitext. The vast majority == Image links == To link to a page from an image instead of an image leading to larger version of fancy formatting seen the file shown on wiki sites is acheived using these limited tags (ea page, add the link parameter to the image markup, eg.g: [[Image:Big_fish. tables with CSS styles). See jpg|200px|link=Big_fish]][[httpImage://enMadagascar_Coffee_001.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext HTML tags in wikitextjpg|200px|link=Madagascar_Coffee]]

<pre>[[Image:Big_fish.jpg|200px|link=Big_fish]][[Image:Madagascar_Coffee_001.jpg|200px|link= Image links Madagascar_Coffee]]</pre> == Link to an image or other file == To link directly to an image or some other file that has previously been uploaded on this site use the <code>media:</code> prefix. For example: ...  <nowiki>[[media:Big_fish.jpg]]</nowiki>

To make an image link to a page instead of leading to the larger version of the same image which is clicked on, add the link parameter to the image markup, eg... will appear as [[media:Big_fish.jpg]]

[[ImageOr to use other link word(s) than the filename, separate the file part and the linked word(s) with a vertical bar <code>(<span style="color:Big_fish.jpg#ff0000;"> |100px|link=Big_fish]]</span>)</code>, as follows:

<pre> [[Imagemedia:Big_fish.jpg<span style="color:#ff0000; font-weight:bold;">|100px|link=Big_fish]]</prespan>how to wear a fish]]

== Display Displaying an email address ==

To display a Skype button that will launch Skype and call or start a chat to a specified Skype address as well as indicate its online or offline status, first configure your Skype account application to allow its status be shown online(if it has not already been configured as such). This is done within the Skype application itself in section <b>Tools->Options->Privacy</b>. Tick the checkbox ''Allow my status to be shown on the web'':

--> == '''Google Maps''' maps ==

To create new or edit existing Google maps on pages, click on the map button httphttps://www.madacamp.com/extensions/GoogleMaps/images/button_map_open.gif above the edit box.

== Google paths == Go to maps.google.com Click menu in top left corner -> Your places -> MAPS Click CREATE MAP (bottom left of screen) Click Import Select a track on the computer (eg. Track_AMBOHIMANGA-IVATO.gpx) anddrag and drop into the Upload space Click on the upper three dots Export to KML/KMZ Select "Export to a .KML file (full icon support use .KMZ)." Download Click Save File, to eg. FILENAME.gpx In the file, there is a list of coordinates: <pre><nowiki><coordinates></nowiki> 50.1606086176,-14.2578310333,12.63 50.1606914308,-14.2576493975,11.67etc.</coordinates></pre> Run geoconvert.sh FILENAME.gpx to change format to: <pre>-14.2578310333, 50.1606086176-14.2576493975, 50.1606914308etc.</pre> Copy into a new Google map, eg.: <pre><nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" lat="-19.105844" lon="47.33697" height="750"controls="large" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"></nowiki>2#B2FCFF00-14.2578310333, 50.1606086176-14.2576493975, 50.1606914308etc.<nowiki></googlemap></nowiki></pre> Placemarker icons are done separately above the path code == Scalable maps == Modify markup on all pages containing maps to include <code>style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"</code>, e.g.:<br><nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" lat="-12.243119" lon="49.345264" type="satellite" zoom="16" controls="large" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"></nowiki> Use http://www.madacamp.com/Special:ReplaceText Replace: <nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" (.*)></nowiki>with: <nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" $1 style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"></nowiki> Select 'Use regular expressions' and namespaces 'Main'. Pages which already contain the string will thereafter have duplicate style declarations:  style="width:100%;max-width:600px;" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;" Thereafter replace instances of: style="width:100%;max-width:600px;" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"with: style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"   <!--''Additional information:''--><!-- broken URLs:

--><!-- too technical: * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Maps/Syntax Google Maps Extension syntax] documentation. --> == Adding RSS news feeds to pages == RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows importing summaries and corresponding links to news articles. For example, a Google [https://news.google.com news search] for any keyword or phrase can be imported. HOwever, Google does not include RSS feed URLs directly on their search result pages but it's not complicated to piece together the relevant feed URLs. For example, a search for the phrase "madagascar lemurs" can be included on a page as follows: <pre><rss template="Google-feed" filterout="movie penguins">https://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22madagascar+lemurs%22&cf=all&output=rss</rss></pre> The output of this news search for the phrase ''madagascar lemurs'', filtering out results with the terms ''penguins'' and ''movie'', becomes: <rss template="Google-feed" filterout="movie penguins deprecated">https://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22madagascar+lemurs%22&cf=all&output=rss</rss> Other non-Google RSS feeds may include a feed icon [[File:RSS_icon.png|14px]] to indicate the whereabouts of RSS feeds. For additional usage and customisation of the output, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS == Uploading images == To add your own images, first [[Special:Userlogin| sign up]] and thereafter click on the [[Special:Upload|Upload file]] link in the toolbox on the left, which allows uploading a single image at the time. Note that the link does not appear to site visitors who are not logged in. You can repeat the procedure for more than one image or chose to upload multiple images via the [[Special:MultipleUpload|Upload multiple files]] function which allows uploading up to five images at the time. == Image size == A recommended image size for this site is minumim 1500 pixels height or width. Many digital cameras produce images with a 4:3 aspect ratio and which are usually larger than 1500 pixels in width or height. Images which has a 4:3 aspect ratio will automatically fit into the [[#Image_gallery|standard image gallery]]. When scaling a 4:3 aspect ratio image from some larger size down to 1500 pixels width it becomes 1125 pixels in height. In case of a taller than wide image, i.e. in portrait format, it becomes 1125 width and 1500 pixels in height. Example of an 4:3 aspect ratio, 1500 pixels wide and 1125 pixels tall image: [[media:Diego_Suarez_150.jpg|Diego_Suarez_150.jpg]]. However, many cameras output different aspect ratios and size settings. Depending on your internet connection speed, size and number of images, you may prefer to scale your images down before uploading them onto this site.

RSS means Really Simple Syndication. It's Or to avoid using a standard code format for feeding various news reader applications (including web browsers) with news summaries and corresponding links to articles. For examplegraphic application altogether, do a Google news search at [http://news.google.com http://news.google.com] for any given keyword or phrase. Thereafter scroll to the bottom of the page just upload your images in their original sizes and find the RSS symbol [[File:RSS_icon.png|14px]]. Follow the link to the URL of dimensions as they come from the raw RSS feedcamera.

The web browser may automatically display the news items of the raw RSS feed in a tidy HTML format as well as offer to add the newsfeed to a browser's [http://www.mozilla.com/en<!-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html Live Bookmarks] and various social bookmarking applications, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo, Bloglines etc. Alternatively, the browser may display the raw RSS feed in XML source code. Either way, copy the location of the page (URL) and place it within the &lt;rss>...&lt;/rss> tags, like the following example:-== Uploading more images via FTP ==

<pre><rss>http:To batch upload even images, first transfer the the images via FTP to for example /tmp/news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22madagascar+lemurs%22&cf=all&output=rss|short|date|max=20</rss></pre>import

The output of thisLog in by shell, which is a news search for su root and set the phrase ''madagascar lemurs'', becomesenvironment variable to:

<rss>http://newsSERVER_NAME=www.googlemadacamp.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22madagascar+lemurs%22&cf=all&output=rss|short|date|max=20</rssbr>export SERVER_NAME

'''Note:''' Not only [http:Within ~/wiki/news.google.com Google News] offer RSS feeds but many major as well as niche portals do. Wherever you see the familiar RSS button, it should be for a compatible news feed that can be displayed on any page as described above. For additional usage and customisation of the output of news items on a page, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wikimaintenance/Extensionrun:RSS#Usage

php importImages.php /tmp/import_images --user=CampMaster --comment= Images "MadaCamp photos" For more help, type php importImages.php --help--> == Displaying images ==

== Image galleries gallery ==

To display a collection of images without captions in a standard size that wlll work well in conjuction with a Google map display on the same page and in the the size of 600 pixels width, copy the following wiki-markup and replace the image names with the images to be dislayed. This example will display one large image on top, spanning three colums with two rows of images below it: <pre><nowiki>{| class="imageTable"|-|colspan="3" | [[File:Photo 001.jpg|600px]]|-|[[File:Photo 002.jpg|196px]]|align="center"|[[File:Photo 003.jpg|196px]]|align="right"|[[File:Photo 004.jpg|196px]]|-|[[File:Photo 005.jpg|196px]]|align="center"|[[File:Photo 006.jpg|196px]]|align="right"|[[File:Photo 007.jpg|196px]]|}</nowiki></pre> Just add or remove rows as required. Example, as on the [[Tulear]] page: {| class="imageTable"|-|colspan="3" | [[File:Tulear 016.jpg|600px]]|-|[[File:Tulear 010.jpg|196px]]|align="center"|[[File:Tulear 005.jpg|196px]]|align="right"|[[File:Tulear 006.jpg|196px]]|-|[[File:Tulear 012.jpg|196px]]|align="center"|[[File:Tulear 008.jpg|196px]]|align="right"|[[File:Tulear 018.jpg|196px]]|} == Thumbnail gallery == Using <nowiki><gallery> ... </gallery></nowiki> tags to display a thumbnail gallery with images which link to the larger versions of the uploaded images. This is useful for creating quick and easy thumbnail galleries with many images.

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

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

== Displaying YouTube videos == To display a video from YouTube on this site, extract and Google videos copy the relevant video ID that is part of a YouTube URL, e.g.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OKs7qpJvRI&feature=related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<font color="#bd0000">vDYzsT3d06I</font>&feature=related] and place in the edit form as follows:

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 <nowiki><HTML5video type=_OKs7qpJvRI&feature=related http://www."youtube.com/watch?v" width=<font color"600" height="#bd0000338">FChpJY59iD8vDYzsT3d06I</fontHTML5video></nowiki>&feature=related] and paste the relevant bit into the edit form as follows:

<pre><nowiki><HTML5video type="youtube" width="600" height="338">_OKs7qpJvRI</youtube></nowiki>vDYzsT3d06I</preHTML5video>

To add a Google video on a page retrieve the ID by clicking the '''Embed video''' link next to the video screen or extract the ID from the URL if one is part of it. For example: [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid<HTML5video type=7281432690466273651&hl"youtube" width=en http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=<font color"600" height="#ff0000338">7281432690466273651caODxMEUq1w</fontHTML5video>&hl=en]

<googlevideo>7281432690466273651<To upload a video on MadaCamp, firstly make the video available in three formats: .mp4, .ogg and .webm. This can easily be done via an online video conversion tool such as [https:/googlevideo>/cloudconvert.com cloudconvert.com]. Thereafter save the three versions on your system before uploading them with identical fileames but with the different file extensions, e.g.:

<nowiki><HTML5video width="520" height="320" autoplay="true" loop="true">Dragonfly</HTML5video></nowiki> Different browsers will automatically select the suitable format for their individual systems. <HTML5video width="520" height="320" autoplay="true" loop="true">Dragonfly</HTML5video> <!--Bug: Thumbs does not show up on Ipad, which affects autoplay="false" mode. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=2285855 --> <!--== Editing and publishing videos == While Google a quick and YouTube offers automatic video conversion to Flash format and an easy way to add existing videos from those publish a video portalsis by uploading it into a YouTube account and thereafter including it on a page, they usually include links or advertising to irellevant content at the end of the videos. It is possible to upload Flash videos for inclusion can also be uploaded directly on Madacamp.com without the resulting advertising. However, if a video taken with a typical digital camera MadaCamp after having converted it is most likely not in Flash into FLV format to begin with. It Your original may be an Mpeg, AVI , Quicktime or Quicktime moviesome other format. To publish such video on a Madacamp page it is necessary to convert it to The conversion into FLV (Flash) format first. This can then be done using a free video editor such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux Avidemux]. Open the file and select FLV formats via the ''Video'', ''Audio'' and ''Format'' selectors. Optionally add any filters before selecting ''Save Video'' and giving the new file an .flv extension.which is available for free download on all operating systems:

Within Avidemux, open the video file, select FLV format via the ''Video'', ''Audio'' and ''Format'' selectors. Optionally add filters. Give the file an '''.flv''' extension and ''Save Video''. Thereafter upload the newly created FLV file onto this site and simply add it onto on a page , as follows:  <nowiki>[[File:Video.flv]]</nowiki> The size and aspect ratio can be tweaked like a normal on-page image by defining the pixel display values, as follows:  <nowiki>[[File:Video.flv|300x375px]]</nowiki> Alternatively, [http://ffmpeg.org FFmpeg] is an excellent and free video editing tool, but requires command line editing, which is mainly done on Linux and OSX systems. For Windows users, a simple FLV conversion tool is [http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm Mobile Media Converter]. While Mobile Media Converter lack various advanced editing features that exists in Avidemux, if all you need is to convert a video into FLV format without special editing, Mobile Media Converter is a perfectly good tool for the purpose. Various pre-configured size, bandwidth and quality level options are available in the conversion process. <table cellpadding="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border:1px solid #cccccc; float:left; margin-right:10px; width:328px;"><tr><td style="padding:3px 3px 3px 3px;">[[File:Chocolaterie_Robert_320x240_low.flv|320x240px]]</td></tr></table> Click the screen on the left to see an example of a video that has been converted from a Quicktime (.mov) file into FLV format using ''Mobile Media Converter'' and thereafter uploaded and displayed here via the following code:<br> <div style="border:1px dashed #296dad; background: #fffbff; padding:10px; display:table;margin-bottom:8px;"><nowiki>[[File:Chocolaterie_Robert_320x240_low.flv|320x240px]]</nowiki></div> ''The video is 13 minutes and features [[Chocolaterie Robert]]'s bean-to-bar chocolate production in Madagascar, in French language.'' <br clear="all"> For tips a tricks on editing video in Windows or Mac OSX or using various cloud based (online) tools, watch BBC's [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9484842.stm The essential guide to video editing] webcast from 13 May 2011. --> <!-- == Adding language switches == Note: Language switches are currently deactivated. To add language switches for French and Malagasy versions to appear in the left column of any content page is simple. For example, the following code was added in the edit box of the page [[Lemur|http://madacamp.com/Lemur]]: <nowiki>[[fr:Lémurien]]</nowiki> <nowiki>[[mg:Maki]]</nowiki> The Français and Malagasy link therefore appears on the English version of the page, which lead to [http://fr.madacamp.com/Lémurien http://fr.madacamp.com/Lémurien] and [http://mg.madacamp.com/Maki http://mg.madacamp.com/Maki] respectively (note: Maki means lemur in Malagasy). [[File:Language switch example.gif]] On the French page, adding links to the English and Malagasy versions is done by: <nowiki>[[en:Lemur]]</nowiki> <nowiki>[[mg:Maki]]</nowiki> And on the Malagasy page, add the links to the English and French pages by: <nowiki>[[en:Lemur]]</nowiki> <nowiki>[[fr:Maki]]</nowiki> If a page title contains two or more words, the words are separated by underscores or spaces, for example:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td style="border:1px dashed #296dad; background: #fffbff; padding:10px;width:48%;"><nowiki>[[fr:Grande_Île]]</nowiki><br><nowiki>[[en:Big_island]]</nowiki><br><nowiki>[[mg:Nosy_be]]</nowiki></td><td align="center" style="width:4%;">or</td><td style="border:1px dashed #296dad; background: #fffbff; padding:10px;width:48%;"><nowiki>[[Filefr:Video.flvGrande Île]]</nowiki><br><nowiki>[[en:Big island]]</nowiki><br><nowiki>[[mg:Nosy be]]</nowiki></td></tr></table>

The size and aspect ratio language swith codes can be tweaked like a normal imageadded anywhere in the editing box, by defining for example at the pixel values as follows:end.

<nowiki>[[File:Video.flv|300x375px]]</nowiki-->