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If you know an article exists, titled as in your text you can highlight the particular text and click the internal link button and the link will be created on that text. You can still do that even if the article does not yet exist, but you think it should. People clicking on the link will be invited to create the article. | If you know an article exists, titled as in your text you can highlight the particular text and click the internal link button and the link will be created on that text. You can still do that even if the article does not yet exist, but you think it should. People clicking on the link will be invited to create the article. | ||
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Revision as of 14:58, 3 December 2009
Contents
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
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
Use the Internal link at the top to insert. The coding looks like this:
[[article name|link text]] Thus a link to the article ''Auckland Museum'' would look like this: [[Auckland Museum|Find out about Auckland Museum]]If you know an article exists, titled as in your text you can highlight the particular text and click the internal link button and the link will be created on that text. You can still do that even if the article does not yet exist, but you think it should. People clicking on the link will be invited to create the article.
External Links
Use the External link at the top to insert. The coding looks like this:
[[http://www.etc link text]] The space after the URL marks the begining of the link text.
Here is an example:
[[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Te Papa Museum]]
Wikipedia Article Links
Links to Wikipedia articles can be coded thus:
{{Wikipedia|Aotearoa}}
Aotearoa is the title of a Wikipedia article, and the resulting link is shown at the right.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.
