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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 page Auckland Museum would look like this: [[Auckland Museum|Find out about Auckland Museum]]If you know a page exists titles as your text you can highlight the particular text and click the internal link button and the link wil be created on that text. You can still do that create the page.
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
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.
