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

Revision as of 15:30, 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.