Help:Editing
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Sandbox page
Take a look at the Sandbox page. This is a page to play with. Don't be shy and edit something. Nothing bad could happen.
Press edit at the top of the page.
Change something, then click preview.
If you are satisfied with your changes press save or cancel otherwise.
Starting a new page
To start a new Sandbox Wiki page you can
- Add the new internal inexistent link (using double square brackets)
to an existing page adding for example
This is where I'm including my [[new page]].
and you'll see a red link indicating that the page has not yet been created. Follow the link and the creation page form is presented, where you can edit and the save contents.
- Creating a new page directly using the new URL
http://sandbox.codtech.com/index.php/New_page
Personal page
You have a personal page (perhaps not yet created) User:<you-user-name>. This is a very good place to start editing pages. To do this, enter the URL (replacing <your-user-name> by your actual user name)
http://sandbox.codtech.com/index.php/User:<your-user-name>
Assigning a category
To ease wiki navegation add one or more categories to a page adding the tags
[[Category:My category]]
Word formatting
Emphasize
This are three different levels of emphasis
''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''
The result is
Emphasize, strongly, very strongly
HTML tags
You can use the following HTML tags.
Typewriter
Typewriter font, equaly spaced, for technical terms
<tt>monospace text</tt>
The result is
monospace text
Small text
<small>small text</small>
The result is
small text
Strikethru text
To delete something but leaving it there to be noticed that it was removed
<s>strike out deleted material</s>
The result is
strike out deleted material
Headings
same as headlines/chapters/sections First, second, third and fourth level headings
=New section= ==Subsection== ===Sub-subsection=== ====Sub-sub-subsection====
A first level heading is for example the "Word formatting" heading on this page.
The "Emphasize" heading on this page is an example of a 2nd level heading.
The "Table of contents" box you see at the top of this page will appear automatically when you have used 4 or more headings.
First level headings are shown as x, 2nd level as x.x and so on.
Internal linking
When you are writing the text of a page or article, you can include
[[Main Page]]
and it will become a link to the Main Page of this Wiki.
[[TCO Reduction|Advantages]]
Becomes a link to the TCO Reduction page but Advantages is written instead like this: Advantages
A postfix added right after a normal internal link is added to the written word in the final document, but links to the page without the postfix.
[[Boot Loader]]s
Becomes: Boot Loaders
Linking to a headline at a wiki page
You can link to a headline on another wiki page, that is instead of the normal link that leaves you at the top of the target page you can jump to a headline that is in the middle of the target page.
[[Sandbox Wiki tour#Interact and communicate]]
Becomes at link to the headline "Interact and communicate" at the "Sandbox Wiki tour" page like this (try it): Sandbox Wiki tour#Interact and communicate
You can also replace the text written on the final page.
[[Sandbox Wiki tour#Interact and communicate|Communicate]]
Becomes: Communicate
External linking
Remember to start with "http://".
Bare URL
http://codtech.com/
Becomes http://codtech.com/
Named link
[http://codtech.com COD Technologies Ltd.]
Becomes COD Technologies Ltd.
Image linking to a page
{{clickpic|TITLE OF TARGET PAGE|PATH OF IMAGE FILE}}
Becomes 
PATH OF IMAGE FILE is the real path of the image, not the Mediawiki name. So, render the image of the desired size with
[[Image:image.png|48px]]
preview the page containing the image and selecting Left-button->Properties see the full path and copy it.
For instructions a further details see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CharlesC/Template_for_navigational_images_on_Mediawiki_websites.
Lists
Bullet lists
You can make bullet lists with "*". * First level list object ** Second level list object *** Third level list object * Another first level list object
- First level list object
- Second level list object
- Third level list object
- Second level list object
- Another first level list object
Numbered lists
You can make numbered lists with "#". # First level list object ## Second level list object ### Third level list object # Another first level list object
- First level list object
- Second level list object
- Third level list object
- Second level list object
- Another first level list object
Mixed lists
You can even make mixed lists like this.
- You can even do mixed lists
- and nest them
- like this
- and nest them
- You can even do mixed lists
- and nest them
- like this
- and nest them
Definition lists
When you need to a list of terms and its definitions this construction can be used
;item1 : the item1's definition ;item2 : the item2's definition
- item1
- the item1's definition
- item2
- the item2's definition
Images
You can insert images using the syntax:
[[Image:filename|options|caption text]]
The last item added will always be considered the caption text.
Stans alone image
[[Image:Desktop.jpg]]
Stans alone image with alt-text
You add "|caption text" after the image link. This is the text most browsers will show when you hover over the image with the mouse.
[[Image:Desktop.jpg|Fractal]]
Image options
- thumbnail, thumb
- Generates an automatically resized thumbnail image (either reduced or enlarged).
- Caption text is displayed directly underneath.
- An "enlarge" icon is added.
- If you do not specify where the image should be place it will be places to the right.
- Example to the right (in this example the image is reduced because it is large):
[[Image:Desktop.jpg|thumb|Fractal]]
- right
- Makes the image right-aligned.
- left
- Same as above, but left aligned.
- center
- Same as above, but centered.
- none
- The image will be rendered inline, even if the thumbnail-option is set.
- frame
- The image will have a frame, regardless of whether it is a thumb, and the caption text will be included as a visible caption.
- Example to the right:
- sizepx
- Renders a version of the image that's [size] pixels wide (e.g. '128px').
- Height is computed to keep the aspect ratio (i.e. the shape of the image).
- This allows both size reduction and enlargement.
- Combining options
- You can combine the options as you like. Example (as you see below resizing is often not very good):
[[Image:Desktop.jpg|128px|left|none|Fractal]]
[[Image:Desktop.jpg|none|frame|Fractal]]
Tables
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3"
| 1 || 2
|-
| 3 || 4
|-
| 5 || 6
|}
| 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 5 | 6 |
See also #Templates.
See also WikiMedia table guide
Discussions
In discussion pages always use ~~~~ to precede you comments with your username and date. Dtmilano 13:31, 5 Jul 2005 (PDT) And indent your comment using : Dtmilano 13:31, 5 Jul 2005 (PDT)
- This is my comment
Templates
Some templates have been made available to simplify some common editing cases.
Important
To include a message that should outstand as IMPORTANT you should use
{{Important|This is my important message}}
Important
This is my important message
Table Header
Table header could be declared
{{Table Header|My Header}}
| My Header 1 | My Header 2 | 1 | 2 |
|---|
Pretty table
Pretty table can also be combined with Table header and they give a more pleasent look.
<nowiki<{| {{prettytable}}</nowiki>
| My Header 1 | My Header 2 | 1 | 2 | 
|
|
|---|
Under Construction
Warns that a page is not finished yet.
{{Under construction}}
Under construction
Additional hints
You can avoid that the wiki system proccessing the text (to avoid unwanted formatting) by putting
<nowiki></nowiki>
around the text you want to parse directly.
Getting help
If you need help to work with the wiki you can do the following:
- Send an email to wikimaster _at_ codtect _do_ com
