Help:Editing

• Here's a page with the main codes that are needed for editing pages Help:Main codes
• All help pages on ERW: Category:Help

Specific editing help pages

• WikiMedia Reference Card A one page summary of important MediaWiki editing commands, intended to be printed out and used next to the computer. - MediaWiki
• Help:Editing MediaWiki - The most common editing functions
• Help:Advanced editing MediaWiki - Making your page look the way you want, organizing your writing — sections, paragraphs, lists and lines, links, text formatting, special characters, etc.
• How to edit a page MediaWiki - Minor and major edits, links, URLs, images, character - and limited formatting, table of contents, variables, templates
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking
• Wikipedia:Moving a page Wikipedia - Also for changing the name of a page
• Customize page layout MediaWiki
• Help:List For example: Multi-column bulleted list - MediaWiki
• Help:Organizing Pages Eagle Rock Wiki

Categories

• Help:Category MediaWiki
• Categories are made by adding [[Category:Gardening]] at the bottom of a page (for the category 'Gardening'). To add other categories, simply add a new line, for example [[Category:Trees]]. If you want to the category 'Trees' to be a subcategory of the category 'Gardening' then simply add [[Category:Gardening]] to the page that was generated for the Category:Trees. The software automatically generates pages with alphabetical lists of all subcategories and pages in a category.

Images

• Help:Images and other uploaded files MediaWiki
• Help:Image page MediaWiki
• Help:Using Images from Commons Eagle Rock Wiki
• Help:Guide for uploading and adding images Eagle Rock Wiki

Making galleries

Example code:

    == Gallery ==
     <gallery caption="" widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
     File:Water cress seeds.JPG|Watercress seeds
     File:whatever.gif|Text that you want to place as caption
     </gallery>

Of course, instead of ==Gallery== you can use another title.
You can change the parameters in the code. Perrow=5 means that you'll get 5 columns. You have to change the widths and the heights of the frames accordingly.
See Winter garden for an example of a gallery with 5 columns.

Quotes in grey frames and codes in text

To add codes to texts, you need to apply the 'Nowiki' button in the standard editing toolbar that shows at the top of each page in edit mode. The button looks like this:
The code that the button generates is:

    <nowiki>Your coded text</nowiki>

You can also put such codes in a grey frame, as you see elsewhere on this page. In order to do this, use the space bar.
Standard for this wiki is to hit the space bar five times for each line.

You can also use this space-bar method to emphasize quotes.

References

• Help:References Eagle Rock Wiki

Table of contents variables

• To place the entire table at the right of a page, see below #Templates.
• To place the TOC elsewhere on the page, use

    __TOC__

where you want the table.

• To force the table to appear, for example in case you have only three or fewer section heads on that page, use

    __FORCETOC__

anywhere on the page.

• In case you want no TOC, use

    __NOTOC__.

• For more information see Manual TOC in MediaWiki

Tables

• Help:Table MediaWiki
• Wiki color formatting help Codes for adding colors to texts and background - MediaWiki

Video

• Help:Videos Eagle Rock Wiki

• Video Players for Embedding in MediaWiki

Templates

You can copy templates from other wikis, or also easily make them yourself.
For example, suppose you want to start each page with: Welcome to Eagle Rock Wiki. We have done our best to provide you with the best possible teaching for your internal-, external- and spiritual growth.
Make a template page on this website with the title: Template:Welcome.
In the text of this page you write the entire welcoming lines. In each new page where you want to insert the welcoming text, you write

    {{Welcome}} 

and the template generates the longer welcoming lines.
In the same way you can add code to the template page.

Comments

To add a comments section at the bottom of a page, add

    {{Comments}} 

at the bottom of the page.

Table of Contents placed to the right

To make the Table of Contents box go to the right side of the page, add

    {{TOC right}}

preferably right after the introduction to the page, and before the first section.

Manuals

• All help pages in the Wikimedia: Category:Editor handbook MediaWiki
• You can also use the Wikimedia User's Guide MediaWiki

Install enhanced MediaWiki edit toolbar

:Main article: Help:Install enhanced WikiMedia edit toolbar

Trying out things

• If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the Wikimedia Meta:Sandbox MediaWiki