Help:Editing
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- 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
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.
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 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
