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Revision as of 14:27, 3 December 2009

Coding

The definitive page is here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents Below is a simple guide.

Inserting Numbered References

The Wiki allows this to be done automaticaly. Here is an example. Click edit to see how it is coded.

Blah blah blah [1], on the other hand blah blah blah [2].

References

  1. Jones, J and S Smith 1970 Unwashed washers. Journal of Plumbing, 17(3):12-21.
  2. Blogs, J 2009 Scalded cats. Dog Fancier 97:34-35.


Inserting Pictures

Use the Upload file link at the left.

Then use the Embedded file link at the top to insert.

The coding looks like this:

[[Image:Pic.jpg]]

More options are:

[[Image:Pic.jpg|thumb|caption]]

which inserts a thumbnail picture and

[[Image:Pic.jpg|framed|left (or right)|caption]]


Internal Links

External Links

Wikipedia Article Links

Wikipedia
Wikipedia has an article about:

Look at the edit version of this article to see how this link to the Wikipedia Aotearoa article is coded.

{{Wikipedia|Aotearoa}}

Aotearoa is the title of a Wikipedia page.


HTML Code

You can insert HTML code in an article. It is helpful to set up tables for instance.

Include the opening and closing codes as below.

<html>

<body>

(HTML text)

</body>

</html>


Contents Boxes

The Wiki creates these automaticaly if the article contains Level 2 and Level 3 headlines. Thus:

== Second Tier Heading ==

=== Third Tier Heading ===

Look at the edit version of this page to see how this page does it.