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Contents 1 Creating a wiki page 2 Editing a wiki page 3 Official Guides 4 BBCodes and emoticons 5 Word formatting 6 Headings 7 Internal linking 8 External linking 9 Lists 9.1 Bullet lists 9.2 Numbered lists 9.3 Mixed lists 9.4 Definition lists 10 Images 10.1 Image without alt-text 10.2 Image with alt-text 10.3 Image options 11 Tables 12 Additional hints 13 Getting help 14 Firefox Extension 15 I can not edit any pages

Creating a wiki page

Check to make sure the page you are about to create is not already in the wiki by typing in the "search box" on the left hand side.

You will be taken to the search results (see below), if there are no matches for your search you will see the text at the top of the page (in red) "You can create this page"

If you click that link you will be taken to this page:

Enter the text you would like for the wiki entry.

As you can see the Wiki is broken down into categories for example:

Find the category(s) that you think this wiki article is relevant to, you will see how to add the category to the article by looking at the top of this screenshot you can see that the Engine Category has the text [[Category:Engine]], by adding this text to your article it would appear in the Engine section for example.

The full list of categories is available here

Here is an example of the page with the categories added, notice the question has the characters == around it, this will make the text into a header, the answer will be its body.

Also important to note that you need to add the text {{FAQTabs}} to the top of the article as this adds the nice tabs buttons to your page automatically then:

Once you are happy with the wiki entry then click on "Show Preview" and you will see what the page will look like before you submit it:

Once you are happy with your page you can click on the "save page" button.

Because you added the categories links to the page you will now see if you goto that category it is added to the relevant section(s):

Editing a wiki page

Click here to see a video on how to edit a wiki page

Official Guides

• Quick Guide
• WikiMedia User's Guide
• MediaWiki editing help.

BBCodes and emoticons

You can make use of BBCode Syntax and emoticons to make up the text. Click here for a BBCode syntax overview.

Word formatting

Emphasize

''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''

Emphasize, strongly, very strongly

HTML tags you can use

Typewriter font for technical terms

<tt>monospace text</tt>

monospace text

Small text

<small>small text</small>

small text

Strikethru text

<s>strike out deleted material</s>

strike out deleted material

Headings

same as headlines/chapters/sections

First, second and third level headings

=New section=

==Subsection==

===Sub-subsection===

A first level heading is for example the "Word formatting" heading on this page. The "Bullet lists" heading on this page is an example of a 2rd level heading.

The "Table of contents" box you see at the top of this page will appear automatically when you have used 4 or more headings. First level headings are shown as x, 2rd level as x.x and so on.

Internal linking

[[Main Page]]

Becomes a link to the Main Page of this Wiki.

[[Main Page|Check out the main page!]]

Becomes a link to the Main Page but Check out the main page! is written instead like this: Check out the main page!

Linking to a headline at a wiki page.

You can link to a headline on another wiki page.

[[EliseBrakes#Which pads should I get?]]

Becomes a link to the headline "Which pads should I get?" at the Elise Brakes page like this: EliseBrakes#Which pads should I get?

You can also replace the text written on the final page.

[[EliseBrakes#Which pads should I get?|Let me know which Pads I should get for my Elise]]

Becomes: Let me know which Pads I should get for my Elise

External linking

Remember to start with "http://".

Bare URL

http://www.midlandslotus.co.uk/

Becomes http://www.midlandslotus.co.uk/

Named link

[http://www.midlandslotus.co.uk MLOC: Midlands Lotus Owners Club...]

Becomes MLOC: Midlands Lotus Owners Club...

Lists

Bullet lists

You can make bullet lists with "*".

* First level list object
** Second level list object
*** Third level list object
* Another first level list object

• First level list object
  • Second level list object
    • Third level list object
• Another first level list object

Numbered lists

You can make numbered lists with "#".

# First level list object
## Second level list object
### Third level list object
# Another first level list object

1. First level list object
   1. Second level list object
      1. Third level list object
2. Another first level list object

Mixed lists

You can even make mixed lists like this.

* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*#* like this

• You can even do mixed lists
  1. and nest them
     • like this

Definition lists

;item
: the item's definition

item

the item's definition

Images

You can insert images using the syntax:

[[Image:filename|options|caption text]]

The last item added will always be considered the caption text.

Image without alt-text

[[Image:MLOCLogo.jpg]]

Image with alt-text

You add "|caption text" after the image link. This is the text most browsers will show when you hover over the image with the mouse.

[[Image:MLOCLogo.jpg|The MLOC logo]]

Image options

thumbnail, thumb

Generates an automatically resized thumbnail image (either reduced or enlarged).

Caption text is displayed directly underneath. An "enlarge"-icon is added.

If you do not specify where the image should be place it will be places to the right.

[[Image:Image:http://www.midlandslotus.co.uk/images/MLOCLogo.jpg|thumb|The MLOC logo]]

right

Makes the image right-aligned.

left

Same as above, but left aligned.

center

Same as above, but centered.

none

The image will be rendered inline, even if the thumbnail-option is set.

frame

The image will have a frame, regardless of whether it is a thumb, and the caption text will be included as a visible caption.

Example to the right:

sizepx

Renders a version of the image that's [size] pixels wide (e.g. '150px').

Height is computed to keep the aspect ratio (i.e. the shape of the image).

This allows both size reduction and enlargement.

Combining options

You can combine the options as you like. Example (as you see below resizing is often not very good):

[[Image:MLOCLogo.jpg|50px|left|none|The MLOC logo]]

[[Image:mediawiki.png|none|frame|The MLOC logo]]

Tables

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3"
| 1 || 2
|-
| 3 || 4
|-
| 5 || 6
|}

1	2
3	4
5	6

See also WikiMedia table guide

Additional hints

You can avoid that the wiki system proccessing the text (to avoid unwanted formatting) by putting <nowiki></nowiki> around the text you want to parse directly.

Getting help

If you need help to work with the wiki then post a message in the MLOC Help section of the forum and we'll help you out... ;)

Firefox Extension

• Wiki Firefox Extension for easier editing of Wiki's

I can not edit any pages

Forum members require twenty posts before they have edit rights on the wiki.