- 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.
Note: where i wrote [ [ you have to leave out the space in-between the two ['s or ]'s.
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
References
- Help:References Eagle Rock Wiki
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
Comments
To add a comments section at the bottom of a page, add ((Comments)) at the bottom of the page. Instead of the () signs, use {}.
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. Instead of the () signs, use {}.
Manuals
- All help pages in the Wikimedia: Category:Editor handbook MediaWiki
- You can also use the Wikimedia User's Guide MediaWiki
Install enhanced WikiMedia 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
