Help:Editing

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

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

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

References

• Help:References Eagle Rock Wiki

Tables

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

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