Help:Editing
From DANSE
Comprehensive help documentation is at MediaWiki User's Guide (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide),
a good starting point of which is
Editing Overview (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing).
Practice editing at sandbox here or better yet you can use the "Show preview" button to try things. Please read Editing Etiquette before editing the work of others.
A quick (non-comprehensive) reference is below:
Quick table
| source | view | |
|---|---|---|
| paragraph (TeX-like) |
Contiguous lines are all in the same paragraph. You can break lines using <br><br> like this. Second paragraph here separated by an empty line. |
Contiguous lines are all in the same
paragraph.
You can break lines using <br> Second paragraph here separated by an empty line. |
| simple link | [[gsl]] | gsl |
| link w/ different label | [[gsl|grid services light]] | grid services light |
| url as it is | http://arcs.cacr.caltech.edu | http://arcs.cacr.caltech.edu |
| url w/ different label | [http://arcs.cacr.caltech.edu arcs home] | arcs home (http://arcs.cacr.caltech.edu) |
| list | * item 1 ** item 1-1 * item 2 |
|
| ordered list | # item 1 # item 2 |
|
| mixed list | # item 1 #* item 1-1 #*# item 1-1-1 #* item 1-2 |
|
| horizontal line | ---- |
|
| headings | = lv1 title = == lv2 title == === lv3 title === ==== lv4 title ==== |
[edit] lv1 title[edit] lv2 title[edit] lv3 title[edit] lv4 title |
| Text as it is | <pre>
== add.c ==
int add(int x, int y) {
return x + y;
}
</pre>
Or any line beginning with
a space " " is considered
pre-formatted.
|
== add.c ==
int add(int x, int y) {
return x + y;
}
Or any line beginning with a space " " is considered pre-formatted. |
Images
| source | view | |||
| inline image | [[Image:tinydanse.jpg]] | 
| ||
| kludged caption | <table align=right> <tr><td>[[Image:tinydanse.jpg|center]] <tr><td><center><small>A DANSE logo</small></center> </table> Quite bothersome but no alternative for this specific purpose |
Quite bothersome but no alternative for this specific purpose | ||
| thumbnail w/ caption, 80px wide | [[Image:danse_logo.jpg|thumb|80px|DANSE Logo]] |  | ||
| link to image or other uploaded files | [[Media:danse_logo.jpg|danse_logo.jpg]] | danse_logo.jpg |
Tables
| source | view | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple w/o border | <table> <tr><td>row1, col1 <td>row1, col2 <tr><td>row2, col1 <td>row2, col2 </table> |
| |||||||||
| simple w/ border and header | <table border=1> <th><th>1<th>2 <tr><th>1<td>row1, col1 <td>row1, col2 <tr><th>2<td>row2, col1 <td>row2, col2 </table> |
|
Table of Contents
In general, a table of contents is automatically generated for pages with more than three headings.
Having __TOC__ in the document forces the generation.
__NOTOC__ suppresses generation of the table of contents.
Internal Links
Disallowed symbols in page titles:
" # $ * + < > = @ [ ] \ ^ ` { } | ~
External Links
Allowed Symbols:
A-Z a-z 0-9 ._\/~%-+
Conversion of other symbols:
" # $ % & ' * , : ; < > [ ^ ` { | }
%22 %23 %24 %25 %26 %27 %2a %2c %3a %3b %3c %3e %5b %5e %60 %7b %7c %7d
