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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 you find some links to information about editing pages on this site.
+<categorytree mode=all style="float:right; clear:right; margin-left:1ex; border:1px solid gray; padding:0.7ex; background-color:white;">Help</categorytree>
+'''[[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>
-== Trying to discover how References are made ==
+This page gives an overview of pages and manuals that offer help in editing. These include pages on this site and pages elsewhere.<br>
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Reflist Making the References section] Templates for this. ''I think this template needs working on the Wiki software.'' "This template encapsulates the <references /> tag to show the list of references defined by <ref>...</ref> tags, with some formatting. It reduces the font size and has options for columns and groups. References can be defined within the body of the article or within the reference list. The <ref>...</ref> and <references /> tags are part of the '''Cite.php MediaWiki extension'''."
-* There's also still [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link this Help:Link page] that explains about making links. --[[User:John|John Eagles]] 02:18, 29 December 2011 (PST)
+* 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]] This wiki
-=== Categories ===
+==Images ==
-* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category Help:Category] MediaWiki
-* I added categories to a few pages, for example this one [[Alder]]
-=== 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]] This wiki
+* [[Help:Guide for uploading and adding images]] This wiki
-=== Tables ===
+== Tables ==
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Help:Table] MediaWiki
+* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_color_formatting_help Wiki color formatting help] Codes for adding colors to texts and background - MediaWiki
-== Manuals ==
+== Editing handbooks & User Guides==
 * 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
-== Trying out things ==
+== Install enhanced MediaWiki edit toolbar ==
+:''Main article: [[Manual:Enhanced MediaWiki edit toolbar]]
-* 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
+== 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
-== Install enhanced WikiMedia edit toolbar ==
+==Videos==
-''This is copied from a letter sent to me by Charles. I installed this toolbar both in Wikimedia and ERW. --[[User:John|John Eagles]] 22:35, 4 January 2012 (PST)''
+*[[Manual:Embedding video]]
-I was able to install Wiki-Tweak, an enhanced edit tool bar that has quite a few handy functions including reference codes, tables, lists, images, media etc.
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-I installed it locally as an add-on to my FireFox browser. I could install it system wide or, you can install it on your local computer if you think it would be useful. You have to use FireFox and download the add-on from the FireFox add on page.
-You have to create a JavaScript page under your user preferences for it to work, but it's a snap.
-For more information on the add-on, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd_installation#On-wiki_installation_code
-[[File:Edit toolbar for wikis.jpg|thumb|800px|left ]]
-=== Instructions ===
-Complete version
-This is the real installation code that works for all MediaWiki installations:
-. Log in under your username
-. If you are on the English Wikipedia click the following link to edit your User:YourUsername/monobook.js page (where YourUsername is your wiki username): Special:Mypage/monobook.js, otherwise open the respective User:YourUsername/monobook.js page (where YourUsername is your wiki username) by hand
-. If you are not using the default skin Monobook (see your preferences) then you have to replace monobook.js in the page name by the used skin, e.g. User:YourUsername/cologneblue.js for the Cologne Blue skin (see Wikipedia:Monobook for details)
-. Add the following code to that edit page:
-// install [[Wikipedia:User:Cacycle/wikEd]] in-browser text editor importScriptURI('http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cacycle/wikEd.js' + '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
-If there is already code on your User:YourUsername/monobook.js page, please make sure not to paste the installation code between /*...*/ tags.
-. Save the page
+[[Category:Editing]]
-. Refresh your browser's cache: hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R)
-. The wikEd logo  should now be displayed on top of every page next to the log out link