Difference between revisions of "Help:Editing"

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Help:Main codes is the main editing help page for this wiki. You may want to copy this link to your user page, so you always have easy access during editing.

This page gives an overview of pages and manuals that offer help in editing. These include pages on this site and pages elsewhere.

All help pages: Category:Help.
- This site makes a difference between editing pages and manual pages. The editing pages give instructions for how to edit pages.
- Manuals on this site give conventions for how to configure this wiki, and how to add extensions and gadgets, etc. See Category:Manual

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 This wiki

Images

Help:Images and other uploaded files MediaWiki
Help:Image page MediaWiki
Help:Using Images from Commons This wiki
Help:Guide for uploading and adding images This wiki

Tables

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

Editing handbooks & User Guides

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: Manual:Enhanced MediaWiki edit toolbar

For administrators

See Help:Patrolled_editsMediaWiki

Trying out things

If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in:

Wikimedia Meta:Sandbox MediaWiki

Videos

Manual:Embedding video

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-* Here's a page with the main codes that are needed for editing pages [[Help:Main codes]]
+<categorytree mode=all style="float:right; clear:right; margin-left:1ex; border:1px solid gray; padding:0.7ex; background-color:white;">Help</categorytree>
-* All help pages on ERW: [http://eagle-rock.org/index.php/Category:Help Category:Help]
+'''[[Help:Main codes]] is the main editing help page for this wiki.''' You may want to copy this link to your user page, so you always have easy access during editing. <br>
+This page gives an overview of pages and manuals that offer help in editing. These include pages on this site and pages elsewhere.<br>
+* All help pages: [[:Category:Help]].
+**This site makes a difference between editing pages and manual pages. The editing pages give instructions for how to edit pages.
+**Manuals on this site give conventions for how to configure this wiki, and how to add extensions and gadgets, etc. See [[:Category:Manual]]
 == Specific editing help pages ==
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 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customize_page_layout Customize page layout] MediaWiki
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:List Help:List] For example: Multi-column bulleted list - MediaWiki
-* [[Help:Organizing Pages]] Eagle Rock Wiki
+* [[Help:Organizing Pages]] This wiki
-== Categories ==
-* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category Help:Category] MediaWiki
-* Categories are made by adding <nowiki>[[Category:Gardening]]</nowiki> at the bottom of a page (for the category 'Gardening'). To add other categories, simply add a new line, for example <nowiki>[[Category:Trees]]</nowiki>. If you want to the category 'Trees' to be a subcategory of the category 'Gardening' then simply add <nowiki>[[Category:Gardening]]</nowiki> 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 ==
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files Help:Images and other uploaded files] MediaWiki
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Image_page Help:Image page] MediaWiki
-* [[Help:Using Images from Commons]] Eagle Rock Wiki
+* [[Help:Using Images from Commons]] This wiki
-* [[Help:Guide for uploading and adding images]] Eagle Rock Wiki
+* [[Help:Guide for uploading and adding images]] This wiki
-===Making galleries===
-Example code:
-     <nowiki>== 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></nowiki>
-Of course, instead of <nowiki>==Gallery==</nowiki> you can use another title.<br>
-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.<br>
-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: [[File:Nowiki button in toolbar.GIF|30px]]<br>
-The code that the button generates is:
-     <nowiki><nowiki>Your coded text</nowiki></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.<br>
-Standard for this wiki is to hit the space bar five times for each line.<br>
-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
-     <nowiki>__TOC__</nowiki>
-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
-     <nowiki>__FORCETOC__</nowiki>
-anywhere on the page.
-*In case you want no TOC, use
-     <nowiki>__NOTOC__</nowiki>.
-*For more information see [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Table_of_contents Manual TOC in MediaWiki]
 == Tables ==
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 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_color_formatting_help Wiki color formatting help] Codes for adding colors to texts and background - MediaWiki
-== Video ==
+== Editing handbooks & User Guides==
-*[[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.<br>
-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.''<br>
-Make a template page on this website with the title: Template:Welcome.<br>
-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
-     <nowiki>{{Welcome}}</nowiki>
-and the template generates the longer welcoming lines.<br>
-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
-     <nowiki>{{Comments}}</nowiki>
-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
-     <nowiki>{{TOC right}}</nowiki>
-preferably right after the introduction to the page, and before the first section.
-== Manuals ==
 * All help pages in the Wikimedia: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editor_handbook Category:Editor handbook] MediaWiki
 * You can also use the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents Wikimedia User's Guide] MediaWiki
-== Install enhanced WikiMedia edit toolbar ==
+== Install enhanced MediaWiki edit toolbar ==
-'':Main article: [[Help:Install enhanced WikiMedia edit toolbar]]''
+:''Main article: [[Manual:Enhanced MediaWiki edit toolbar]]
+== For administrators==
+See [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Patrolled_edits Help:Patrolled_edits]MediaWiki
 == Trying out things ==
+If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in:<br>
+*Wikimedia [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Sandbox Meta:Sandbox] MediaWiki
+==Videos==
+*[[Manual:Embedding video]]
-* If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the Wikimedia [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Sandbox Meta:Sandbox] MediaWiki
-[[Category:Help]]
+[[Category:Editing]]