Help
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
External Links
Wikipedia Article Links
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.
