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This Editing cheat sheet explains the most often used methods for creating and editing wiki pages.
Adding content to the Whole Wheat Radio website is far more important than how it is formatted, so please do not worry about whether you follow the guidelines or not. Someone will likely edit your content later. It's a wiki thing.
If you see a misspelling, grammar, clarity, formatting, etc. problem on a page, don't hesitate to fix it. It's a wiki thing.
If you find a page you feel needs more content, please add what you know or find through research. It's a wiki thing.
Please add your tips to this page.
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Making and renaming pages
Make a new page
Method 1: Use the search feature.
In the "Search box" in the left panel of your browser window, type the name of the page you would like to create, then click the "Go" button.
When the title is not found, a page appears with a link to "create this page".
Click the link.
Method 2: Make a wiki link
Click "Edit" at the top of any page.
Another page opens with an edit box. In the edit box, make a wiki link using the name/title of the page you want to create; like this, [[Page name]]
Then click, "Show preview". When the preview appears, the link is red. Click it.
Both methods
With either method when the page with an edit box appears, enter your text in the edit box. Click the "Show preview" button to see how your content will be displayed. Previews are temporary and not saved.
When you are done writing, type a brief notation of what you've changed in the "Summary" box, and click the "Save page" button.
Note: All page names must start with a capital letter. MediaWiki will change any initial lower case page titles to uppercase.
See also: WWR Wiki Page Creationism Comic for step-by-step instructions with screen shots.
Change the name of a page
To change the name of a page, use the "Move" tab at the top of the page. Type the new title in the provided space. Click the "Move" button. A page about redirects appears. The old page is now a "redirect" page and the new title is on the page.
Edit an existing page
To edit or add to an existing page, navigate to the page then click the "Edit" link at the top of the page.
A page opens with an edit box filled with editable text.
Make your changes or additions in the edit box.
To see a draft of what you've done, click the "Show preview" button. Clicking "Show preview" does not save the page.
When you are done, click the "Save page" button to save your edits. The edited page then appears.
You can also edit just a section of the page by clicking the "Edit" link to the right of the section header. (See Sections below.)
Formating text
| What you type | What you see | |
| Type two returns at the end of each paragraph and do not indent paragraphs by using spaces or tabs. | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. |
| To force line breaks, use the HTML or XHTML line break tag ( or ). | Lorem ipsum dolor. Sit amet. Consectetur adipisicing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor. | Lorem ipsum dolor. Sit amet. Consectetur adipisicing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor. |
| What you type | What you see | |
| Italics - Type two apostrophes, not quote marks, before the text and two after the text. | ''italic'' | italic |
| Bold - Type three apostrophes, not quote marks, before the text and three after the text. | '''bold''' | bold |
| Bold italic - Type five apostrophes, not quote marks, before the text and five after the text. | '''''bold italic''''' | bold italic |
| Indent paragraph - Type a colon (:) at the beginning of the paragraph. | :Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do
eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
:Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. |
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| Bulleted paragraphs or lists - Type an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the paragraph. Do not type two returns between lines when making bulleted paragraphs. | * Bullet item one. * Bullet item two |
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| Numbered list - Type the number sign (#) at the beginning of the paragraph. Do not type two returns between lines when making numbered lists. | # Item one. # Item two. |
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Sections (topic headers)
| What you type | What you see |
| == New section == | New section
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| === Subsection === | Subsection |
| ==== Sub-subsection ==== | Sub-subsection |
When there are more than three section headers on a page a table of contents automatically appears on the page.
Links
| Internal links | What you type | What you see |
| Link to another WWR wiki page, by enclosing the page title in double square brackets. This type of link is known as a "wiki link." | [[Whole Wheat Radio]] | Whole Wheat Radio |
| To have the wiki link show something besides the page title, add a pipe (|) and the text you want to use. | [[The Mill | question and answer page]] | question and answer page |
| External links | ||
| Link to a non-WWR wiki page. These are known as "external links." | http://www.wikipedia.org | http://www.wikipedia.org |
| To make the external link a footnote-like link, put the URL in single square brackets | [http://www.wikipedia.org] | [1] |
| Add an alternate name for an external link by typing a space then the alternate text. | [http://www.wikipedia.org See wikipedia.org.] | See wikipedia.org. |
If the page links back to itself, the link is replaced with bold text.
Images and captions
See also: Create a gallery.
Upload an image
Go to this Upload page, and upload your file to the server. For detailed instructions, see Uploading photos.
Add an image to a page
| File uploaded to WWR website (internal image) | What you type | What you see |
| If the image file has been uploaded to the WWR website, add it to a page with a wiki link that includes the prefix "Image:" and the file name. | [[Image:Weethedlicense.jpg]] | 
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| To resize the display of the image, add a pipe (|) and the desired width in pixels. | [[Image:Desighn Ciontest 013.jpg | 300px]] | 
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| To change the alignment from the default of left alignment, add a pipe and the desired alignment. | [[Image:Weethedlicense.jpg | right]] | |
| To add a caption, add a pipe and "thumb", and at the end add another pipe and the the caption. (The default alignment of thumbs is right alignment.) | [[Image:Weethedlicense.jpg | thumb | Wheathead license plate.]] | |
| An example using all the above. Always make the caption the last item. | [[Image:Jun-02-2007 11-05-58--5108.JPG|thumb|center|150px| Wheathead made sign greets visitors to WWR headquarters.]] | Image:Jun-02-2007 11-05-58--5108.JPG Wheathead made sign greets visitors to WWR headquarters. |
| File not uploaded to WWR wiki (external image) | What you type | What you see |
| To show the image on a page, type or paste the URL into the edit box. Images that are not uploaded to WWR cannot be resized and will display at full size. | http://www.wholewheatradio.org/wiki/images/d/d9/Onair100.gif | 
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| To show a link to an external image, type or paste the URL into the edit box and enclose it in single square brackets. | [http://www.wholewheatradio.org/wiki/images/d/d9/Onair100.gif] | [2] |
| To show a link to an external image with a name for the link, type or paste the URL into the edit box, type a space, then the name of the image link and enclose all it in single square brackets. | [http://www.wholewheatradio.org/wiki/images/d/d9/Onair100.gif On-air sign.] | On-air sign. |
Add a page to a category
To add a page to a category, at the bottom of the edit box make a wiki link that includes "Category:" followed by the name of the category. For example, [[Category:Category name]]
See also: Help:Category.
Miscellaneous
Ensure that you see the changes you made
Click the "Preferences" link in the upper right corner, in the "Misc" section or tab check "Disable page caching."
Signing your comments
To add your signature to a comment, type four tildes (~~~~). When you save the page, your username and a time stamp are added to the page. It is customary to sign comments on talk pages, and on other discussion or greeting type pages.
Organizing your work
- Launch your audio player and start the WWR stream. (See Tune in.)
- Use a tabbed browser like Firefox.
- Open one tab to the WWR Chat.
- Open another tab to the WWR page that you are working on.
- Open another to the J-Walk blog (you don't want to miss any opportunities to waste corporate time).
- If you are on the job, open another to something relevant to the last meeting you attended, or something on the agenda for the next meeting.
See also
Help pages from other wikis
You will find more advanced topics on these sites.
- The Basics Of Editing A Page
- Here is a lot of help directly from Wikipedia where you can spend hours reading about wikis.
- The main Wikipedia help page - Until we get our help populated, this will be very helpful.
- Very helpful editing cheat sheet - Directly from Wikipedia.org. Helpful list of editing commands.
- Quick reference sheet - From wikimedia.org.
Related Special Pages
- Special:Listusers - Shows all the people currently signed up on this wiki.
- Special:Preferences - Lets you edit your preferences.
- Special:Recentchanges - Shows you recent changes made throughout the system
- Special:Specialpages - A complete list of these (and many more) special pages that help you figure out what's going on here.
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