Help:Editing

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As the Subiwiki community develops we can all add help information here. This is our own expertise that extends the help offered at the MediaWiki site.


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Editing Basics

Quick Start

For more information on creating pages, see Quick Start.

Start Editing

Note: You must create an account and be logged in to edit a page
To start editing an existing Subiwiki page, click on the "Edit this page" link of the page (either on the bottom or from the side menu). This will bring you to the edit page: a page with a text box containing the source code and text of the page.

Summarize Changes

  • It’s helpful to make a brief note box so that others can quickly grasp what you’ve done. You can do this by writing a short edit summary in the Summary: field below the edit-box.
  • Mark whether your change is a minor edit or not with the “This is a minor edit” check box located under the text box.

Preview Edits

  • When you have finished, press the “Show Preview” button at the bottom of the edit box to see how your changes will look -- before you make them permanent.
  • Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click "Save Page" and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.

Preventing Edit Conflicts

Editing conflicts can be a problem when large amounts of text are being changed and a resulting edit conflict is hard to reconcile by viewing the change diffs. As of yet there is no perfect solution to preventing edit conflicts. Wikipedia's solution to this problem is to place a template at the top of the page you are editing which indicates a major edit is in place, save the page, and then start editing the page. For further reading, see the MediaWiki edit conflict page.


Formatting

Headings

Headings organize writing into sections. Subiwiki will also automatically generate a table of contents (found at the top of the article) from headings.

Use equal signs to create headings:

  • Heading 1: ==Heading 1==
  • Heading 2: ===Heading 2===
  • Heading 3: ====Heading 3====

…continue adding one equal sign on each side of the text for subsequent subsection headings.


Links

Internal

To link to another Subiwiki page place double brackets on both sides of the linked Subiwiki article page name:

  • [[Title of Article]]

To display an alternate name instead of the article page:

  • [[Title of Article| Displayed name]]

To link to a specific section in an article:

  • [[Title of Article#Section Heading]]

External

To link to pages outside of Subiwiki use single brackets on both sides of the linked external page or just type the entire URL

To display an alternate name instead of a [1] or the URL place a space between the URL and alternate name between brackets:

Font

For bold font use three tick marks on each side of the word

  • '''bold'''

For italics use two tick marks

  • ''italic''

For both use five tick marks

  • '''''italic bold'''''

Note: there is a toolbar at the top of page editors that allows you to click a button and make selected text bold or italic.

For other font formatting such as color font or font families, use HTML Code


Lists

See Wikipedia Lists for advanced list formatting.

Bullets

To create a bulleted list, use the “*” character and add a * for each sub-item:

  • * 1st level
  • * 1st level, second item
  • ** 2nd level
  • *** 3rd level

Displays:

  • 1st level
  • 1st level, second item
    • 2nd level
      • 3rd level

Numbering

To create a numbered list, use the “#” character and add a # for each sub-item.

  • # 1st level
  • # 1st level, second item
  • ## 2nd level
  • ### 3rd level

Displays:

  1. 1st level
  2. 1st level, second item
    1. 2nd level
      1. 3rd level


Spacing

To display a space between two lines, add two carriage returns between the lines.
Sometimes this doesn’t work so force a line break using HTML Code:

  • <br>

To indent, use a colon

  • :New indented line


Categories

You can group common pages by using categories. This will create a category page that lists all pages that fall under that category.


Images

Upload

Upload images here: Special:Upload
This page is also linked on the left menu bar.

Display

To display an image:

  • [[Image:''imagename.ext'']]
  • Displays: The image that you’ve linked. Note: Case is important!!


Advanced syntax (to place the image and title it):

  • [[Image:imagename.ext|alignment|image summary]]
  • Example: [[Image:lgtexhaust.jpg|center|thumb|Diagram of Legacy GT Intake and Exhaust System]]
  • Displays:
Diagram of Legacy GT Intake and Exhaust System

Tables

HTML table syntax can be used to create tables, but there is also a special wikicode available to use. Wikicode uses curly brackets and pipes as shown below.


The example below shows the mixing of HTML (for the borders) and wikicode (for table structure). The “!” character on the first row indicates a row of column headings: 

{|border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5"
|-
!(1,2)||(2,2)
|-
|(1,1)||(2,1)
|-
|}


Displays:

(1,2)(2,2)
(1,1)(2,1)


See Wikipedia Tables for more information.


Templates

Creating templates

Templates have special namespaces so in order to create a template, your page must start with the word Template:

  • Template:page name


Templates are similar to subroutines or iframes in that they display as a page within an article.

For more information see: MediaWiki Templates

Linking to templates

Place the name of the template in curved brackets {{}} in the section you would like the template to be displayed. It will depend on the template syntax as to where and how the template will appear.

  • {{template name}}


Useful MediaWiki Editing Pages

These pages offer more information on editing and have some helpful examples.

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