Help
This page is for people with editing rights.
Contents
Start an Article
Type the title of your intended article into the search box and click Go. If the article already exists it will open - if not the words will appear:
'There is no page titled 'your article title'. You can create this page.'
The red part is a link. Clicking it will take you to a form where you can start entering the content. Don't forget to save it - by the button at the base of the page!
Coding
The definitive page is here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents Below is a simple guide.
Internal Links
Use the Internal link button 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]] A link to a category looks like this [[:Category:category name|link text]]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 button 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]]
Inserting Pictures
Use the Upload file link at the left.
Then use the Embedded file button 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]]
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.
Inserting Numbered References
The Wiki allows this to be done automaticaly. Here is an example:
Blah blah blah [1], on the other hand blah blah blah [2].
References
The coding for this was:
Blah blah blah <ref>Jones, J and S Smith 1970 Unwashed washers. ''Journal of Plumbing'' 17(3):12-21.</ref>, on the other hand blah blah blah <ref>Blogs, J 2009 Scalded cats. ''Dog Fancier'' 97:34-35.</ref>.
'''References'''
<references />
The last two lines generate the list so they must be included.
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 four or more Level 2 or 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.
