Pages & Page Content

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New Pages

In order to add a new page, just put the page name in double brackets.

If you wish to have a different page name than what will appear in the link, first list the page name followed by | and then the name you wish to appear in the link.

Once a page is created, you may link to it from other pages by referencing it the same way as above.

Rename a Page

Simply select the "move" tab and the option to rename a page will appear.

Text

Just start typing! There are many options for formatting text such as styling in bold (place words in triple quotation), italic (place words in double quotation), or adding

bullets (use asterisk).

See the MediaWiki Formatting site for many more options.

Links

Here is a link to http://www.wunderground.com. Here is the same link to Weather Underground again.

There are a few ways to display a link to the outside web. You may simply type the URL and it displays as in the first case above. The second case is formatted:

If the link is to an external site, an arrow icon appears at the end of the link. If you would like to remove this icon, edit the main.css file in your skin's directory (example: /path_to_wiki/skins/monobook/main.css). Find the section starting with:

#bodyContent a.external,
#bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] {

and replace with:

#bodyContent a.external,
#bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] {
        background: none;
        padding-right: 0;
}

Images

Inserting

Inserting an image is similar to inserting a file:

Aligning

To align an image:

Images may be left, center, or right aligned

Resize

To resize an image:

50 pixles

200 pixels

Thumbnails

This is a thumbnail which is formatted:

Linking

To link your image to a file/webpage, add link=URL/page name inside the double brackets

Galleries

This is an an image gallery (images must be uploaded separately from the toolbox "Upload File")

To add a FRAME, inside double brackets format the following: Image:Picture.jpg|frame

CAPTIONS require this format in double brackets: Image:Picture.jpg|frame|add your caption here

To make this image GALLERY see below:

this is how you make the gallery

All of these tools and more can be found here. Special Note: Unless otherwise noted, all images will be "clickable" and will redirect you to the file page. If you wish to disable this, add |link= inside your image definition. (This does not work for framed images)

Attachments

In the "edit" tab, you can either select the insert embedded file link or type:

Save the page and exit the edit menu. Viewing the page normally, click on the link to the file you just inserted and a page will pop up allowing you to select the file to upload. The file name should match the link name.

Initialy only files with the following extension may be uploaded: png, gif, jpg, jpeg. First make sure that uploads are enabled in LocalSettings.php. Below is the code that can be added to LocalSettings.php to expand the possible file extensions:

$wgFileExtensions = array( 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ppt', 'pdf', 'doc', 'psd', 'mp3', 'xls', 'swf', 'doc', 'odt', 'odg', 'mpp');

This link is the source for this code.

Tables

header 1	header 2	header 3
row 1, cell 1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

Use this template to produce the table above

for more info go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_markup

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