Difference between revisions of "Help:Editing"

Revision as of 04:16, 30 December 2011

Here you find some links to information about editing pages on this site.

Making the References section Templates for this. I think this template needs working on the Wiki software. "This template encapsulates the tag to show the list of references defined by ^[1] 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 ^[2] and

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tags are part of the Cite.php MediaWiki extension."

There's also still this Help:Link page that explains about making links. --John Eagles 02:18, 29 December 2011 (PST)

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: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

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

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 === Categories ===
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category Help:Category] MediaWiki
+* I added categories to a few pages, for example this one [[Alder]]
 === Images ===