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Basic operations
How to edit a page [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page
Review policy and conventions
- Make sure that you submit information which is relevant to the specific purpose of the wiki, or your content might be deleted. You can always use the talk pages to ask questions or check to see if your idea will be accepted. Please make note of the license your contributions will be covered with.
Start editing
- To start editing a MediaWiki page, click the Edit this page (or just edit) link at one of its edges. This brings you to the edit page: a page with a text box containing the wikitext – the editable code from which the server produces the finished page, and often called the edit box.
- If you just want to experiment, please do so in the sandbox, not in the edit box.
Type your changes
- You can just type your text. However, also using basic wiki markup (described in the next section) to make links and do simple formatting adds to the value of your contribution. Wikimedia wikis have style guidelines available. If you follow these, your contributions will be more valuable as they won't need to be cleaned up later.
Summarize your changes
- Write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the edit summary legend.
Preview before saving!
- When you have finished, click Show preview to see how your changes will look before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click Save page and your changes will be immediately applied to the article. Sometimes it is helpful to save in between.
Basic wiki markup
Here are the most frequently used types of wiki markup. If you need more help see Wikitext examples.
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Section headings
Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them. Subsection
Using more equals signs creates a subsection. A smaller subsection
Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs. Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title. | == Section headings == ''Headings'' organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them. === Subsection === Using more equals signs creates a subsection. ==== A smaller subsection ==== Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs. Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title. |
marks the end of the list.
| * ''Unordered lists'' are easy to do: ** Start every line with a star. *** More stars indicate a deeper level. *: Previous item continues. ** A new line * in a list marks the end of the list. * Of course you can start again. |
A new line marks the end of the list.
| # ''Numbered lists'' are: ## Very organized ## Easy to follow A new line marks the end of the list. # New numbering starts with 1. |
A newline starts a new paragraph.
| : A colon (:) indents a line or paragraph. A newline starts a new paragraph. <br> Often used for discussion on talk pages. : We use 1 colon to indent once. :: We use 2 colons to indent twice. ::: 3 colons to indent 3 times, and so on.
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Here's a link to the Main page. But be careful - capitalization counts! | Here's a link to the [[Main page]]. |
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The weather in London is a page that doesn't exist yet. You could create it by clicking on the link. | [[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist yet. You could create it by clicking on the link. |
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You can link to a page section by its title: If multiple sections have the same title, add a number. #Example section 3 goes to the third section named "Example section". | You can link to a page section by its title: * [[List of cities by country#Morocco]]. If multiple sections have the same title, add a number. [[#Example section 3]] goes to the third section named "Example section". |
How to add links
If you want to link to a wiki-page in this site, include the exact title (copy it!) in your text and put it into "[[ ]]". To link to an external site, type its URL beginning with "http://". Or you can also use put "http://??? its name" into "[ ]"
To link to an external website (another method):
- Go to Edit mode.
- Click the fourth icon from the left(world and paper).
- Brackets will appear.
- In the brackets, type the exact URL or paste it from your browser.
- If you want the link to be attached to specific words, then type in the brackets after the URL one SpaceBar followed by the text you want to appear on your page. example: type http://www.albany.edu UAlbany inside the brackets to get UAlbany
How to create a new page [2]
To create a single new page, you may first think about its title, and put it into search. If no page matches your title, it will ask if you want to create this new page.
Most of the time, you'd want to start a new page from an existing page. You should first find the page that you want to link to your new page, edit that page and add a link in it (e.g., " Learning for fun "). Save that page, you'll see the "Learning for fun" shown in red. Click it and you'll start to create that page.
How to rename a page
Title of a wiki page is its unique ID. Be careful in naming your page. If you don't like a title, click "move" on the top, then give it a new title.
Can I delete a page
There is no easy way to do that. The idea of wiki is that we can always improve the pages, so you don't need to delete it and you should edit it. If for some reason, you really don't want that page any more, just discard it. If that page has no link to anywhere, it will just die there.
How to add an image
Go to Toolbox on the left, click upload file, browse your file and upload it. Then go to your wikipage where you want the image to go to, edit that page, and click the image icon, type the exact file name of the image. The file name is its ID.
How to add a audio/video file
Following the same process as uploading an image. Edit the page you want it to go to, click the media file link icon, put the exact filename there. I encourage you to link to external video sites instead of uploading video files here, because they are often too big to handle.
How to use anchors
In our wiki-space, anchors = subheadings. To link to a subheading in a wiki page, you just add "#subheading name" after the page title. For example, "Main Page #About us" will link to the subheading "About us" of our Main Page.
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