Help:Editing
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Creating a page
There are two ways to create a new page
- Type the name of the page you want to create into the search box and click go. If the page doesn't already exist then the results screen with have a link to create the page.
- Create a link to the page you want to create within an existing page. This link will appear in red and when clicked on will take you through to a screen to edit the new page.
Text Editing
format
Although you can use the editing bar to help edit it is important that you understand the basic wikitext when editing existing pages
A single newline generally has no effect on the layout but an empty new line starts a new paragraph. You can force a new line by including <br> e.g. some text <br> some more text produces
some text
some more text
Italics is done by putting two apostrophes ''some text'' produces some text
Bold is done by putting three apostrophes '''some text''' produces some text
Italics and bold together is done by putting five apostrophes '''''some text''''' produces some text
A typewriter font is available by using <tt> the text</tt> e.g the text
Strike out and underline is done in a similar way with <strike> some text </strike> and <u> some text </u> giving some text and some text respectively.
The same is true of superscripts and subscripts with X<sup>2</sup>, H<sub>2</sub>O giving X2, H2O
You should sign your work where appropriate (always on disscussion page
This is done in a varety of ways using the ~ (tilde):
- ~~~ gives Clemo
- ~~~~ gives Clemo 11:59, 27 February 2007 (GMT)
- ~~~~~ gives 11:59, 27 February 2007 (GMT)
There are also a number of ways to edit colours, text size and font please look at this page for details Tester
position
To centre text include <center>the text</center>
Apologies for the American spelling!!!
A colon can be used to indent text
: the text produces
- the text
and :: the text
- the text
<blockquote> The '''blockquote''' command will indent both margins when needed instead of the left margin only as the colon does. </blockquote>
The blockquote command will indent both margins when needed instead of the left margin only as the colon does.
headings
Headings are done using the = (equals) symbol ==Section Heading== gives a section heading
===sub section=== gives a subsection
sub section
up to four equals which gives
sub sub section
lists
There are a number of different ways to display lists the easiest is to use stars e.g.
* a list item
** another list item
* a third list item
would produce
- a list item
- another list item
- a third list item
In addition to produce a numbered list use hash
# a list item
## another list item
# a third list item
for example would produce
- a list item
- another list item
- a third list item
To give greater indentation to a list use a colon like this (note how list types can be combined)
:* a list item
:# another list item
:## yet another list item
- a list item
- another list item
- yet another list item
Leaving leading spaced (use space bar) will produce an effect like this
a wasted space is a terrible thing
Links
Internal links can be created using double square brackets>e.g.
[[Main Page]] provides a link to our Main Page
Be Careful of capital letters
A piped link can be used to chnage the text that is displayed e.g
[[About| Some more infomation about NRCC]]. gives
Some more infomation about NRCC
[[About#Services| Some more infomation about NRCC]] will link to the section labelled services on that page.
External links can be done by simply typing the url e.g. http://www.acre.org.uk/
Or You can give it a title: [http://www.acre.org.uk/ ACRE Homepage]
Or leave the title blank: [http://www.acre.org.uk/]
Tables
see Metawiki for a deatiled tutorial on how to create tables
Uploading Files
If you have permission to upload files and are logged in then the option 'upload file' will be displayed in the toolbox in the bottom left of your screen.
Select this option to upload a file then follow the steps to browse and then upload the file. Please always add a desciption of the file as this makes the job of editing the site far easier.
To add a non image file to a specfic page create a link as you would do any other interal page simple adding the prefix 'media:' to the filename.
e.g. [[media:filename.doc | application form]]
would display like this:
clicking on this link would now download that file
Always use the filename you specified in the destination file name field of the upload window.
Displaying Images
Images must be uploaded in the same way as other files but there are then a number of display options.
- As a normal link
[[Image:Nrcctestlogo.png]]
- As a pipe link with alternative text- you shoud always include alternative text for disabled users
[[Image:Nrcctestlogo.png |NRCC logo header]]
- You can limit or enlarge the size by a pixel value
[[Image:Nrcctestlogo.png|50px|NRCC logo header]]
- As a thumbnail with a link to the main image and an optional size and caption
[[Image:Nrcctestlogo.png|50px|thumb| NRCC logo header]]
- A floating position can be assigned by adding left / right or none (text starts below). This can be used with any of the image display options above.
e.g. [[Image:Nrcctestlogo.png|left|50px|thumb| NRCC logo header]] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat
more information
Information on Adding maps to your pages
This covers the basics of editing but for more information as well as tips and tricks you may like to look at the Mediawiki handbook
