Media Wiki Editing

External

• WikiMedia Editing Reference Card: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Reference_card
• WikiMedia Help: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents
• User's Guide https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

Internal

• Media Wiki

Links

Internal Links

  [[ThisIsALink]]

Internal links that get a label:

  [[ThisIsTheLink|This is the label that shows up in text]]

External Links

External links that are rendered verbatim

http://cnn.com

External links that get a label

[http://something.com/something/else Local Label]

Note that "http:" can be omitted:

[//something.com/something/else Local Label]

If you want to avoid a text with an external link syntax to be automatically turned into a link, use <nowiki>:

<nowiki>http://cnn.com</nowiki>

Lists

* List item

Italics

''italics''

Bold

'''bold'''

Code and Fixed Typed Fonts

Code Section in a Box

 <pre>...</pre>

or simply start the line with a space.

In-line no-formatting

 <nowiki>...</nowiki>

Fixed Type Fonts

<tt> ... </tt>

Paragraph Indentation

:One indent
::Two indents
:::Three indents
:::::: Multiple indent

Anchors and Linking to Anchors

An anchor is a in-page link target - it allows incoming links to target locations on the page other than section headings.

The anchors are automatically generated in case of the section headings. For example, a section named "Section One" generates a Section_One anchor, and the heading can be linked to by prepending "#Section_One" to the usual wiki #Links. In case of multiple sections with identical headings, the anchor names have a "_2", "_3", etc appended starting from the second occurrence.

Manual anchors can be also inserted and used in links:

<span id="anchor_name">text to anchor to</span>

Do not use:

<span id="anchor_name"/>

it won't work.

Anchor Names

Heading Name	Anchor
Test	#Test
Section One	#Section_One
Capitalization does Matter	Capitalization_does_Matter

Special Anchors

#toc links to the table of contents.

More Details on Anchors

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link#Anchors

Tables

{|
| topleft || topmiddle || topright
|-
| middleleft || middlemiddle || middleright
|-
| bottomleft || bottommiddle || bottomright
|}

{|
| . || . || . || . || .
|-
|  . || . || . || . || .
|-
| . || . || . || . || .
|}

More about tables: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table

Blockquote

• Web colors reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

Links

Use this as a border for in-wiki links

<blockquote style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border: solid thin lightgrey;">
:[[SomeLink]]
</blockquote>

SomeLink

Important Note or Observation

Use this as a border for important notes and observations on blueish background.

<blockquote style="background-color: AliceBlue; border: solid thin LightSteelBlue;">
:<br>Some content on blue<br><br>
</blockquote>

Some content on blue

Use this as a border for important notes and observations on gold background.

<blockquote style="background-color: Gold; border: solid thin Goldenrod;">
:<br>Some content on gold<br><br>
</blockquote>

Some content on gold

Error

<blockquote style="background-color: Tomato; border: solid thin red;">
:<br>Some content on red<br><br>
</blockquote>

Some content on red

Images and Media

• External: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images

Default

[[Image:somefile.png]]

Framed Full Size

[[Image:somefile.png|left|frame|caption]]
[[Image:somefile.png|center|frame|caption]]

Thumbnail

[[Image:somefile.png|thumb|center]]

Others

text floating:

[[Image:somefile.png|thumb|left|300px|caption]]

To Export Wiki-Ready PNG

Export Wiki-Ready PNG in OpenOffice

PDF

[[Media:filename.pdf|PDF]]

Video

[[Media:video.asf|Video]]

Table of Contents

• External https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Table_of_contents

By default shows up after three headers. If you want to force, use:

__FORCETOC__

Templates

For an explanation of what templates are see:

Media Wiki Concepts - Templates

Declaring a Template

To start a new template, declare a link in the "Template:" namespace, as shown below

[[Template:TestTemplate]]

follow the link, and edit it. The initiating page will contain the link to the template and can be used for access. For an example of actual template declarations see the "Blockquote" section above.