Help:Contents

How Begin

Editing Mediawiki pages

• Start by reading "How to edit a page: the basics"
• Then you may look at the help pages over at Mediawiki.org

Policies

• Editing rules for this Wiki
• Help:Bringing classes to EduTech Wiki

Other

• Template demo page
• Help:English Tips (e.g. is there a difference between "pedagogic" and pedagogical" ?)

Images

• Before using an image you must upload it: Upload an image (please document it !)
• Example for image insertion (original size + frame + caption)

[[image:input-process-output-paradigm.png|frame|none|Input-process-output paradigm]]

• See: Wikipedia: Extended image syntax for more help on image syntax

Finding images already uploaded to this wiki:

• Special:ImageList (there is a search inside)
• Help:List of icons (a little page with icons we use)

Wikilogs

• See Help:Wikilog

Import/export

Mediawiki editing

If you are unhappy with the built-in editing facilities, there exist several options:

• WikiEd is a "what you see is what you mean" editor andcan replace the default simple editor. It allows pasting formatted text, e.g. from MS-Word (including tables). Currently it works only for Mozilla browsers like Firefox and SeaMonkey.
• Mediawikis can interface to various programming editors. See the Mediawiki entry on external editors. This option requires installation work on the client side, i.e. you will have to install extensions in your editor. Daniel K. Schneider uses emacs on Linux, an option not recommended for people not familiar with this tool, and sometimes JEdit on Windows.

HTML import

• HTML::WikiConverter. A Perl script by Dave (Diberri)'s. Also available as online form.
• HTMLtoWIki On-line form from Seapine Labs (uses David's HTML::WikiConverter).
• Emiliano Bruni's form (an other on-line tool based on HTML::WikiConverter).

Word import

• Word2MediaWikiPlus - (see the discussion page for help)

Export

• Magnus' magic MediaWiki-to-XML-to-stuff converter

Pointers to MediaWiki documentation

If you want to got further, some stuff may not apply to this wiki. This wiki has a very different editing policy than wikipedia. Nevertheless, it's interesting to see how they "do it".

Style

• Wikimedia Manual of Style
• Wikipedia naming conventions, in particular never capitalize any other word than the first one (except if it is a proper name).
• Wikipedia Conventions and Guidelines

Help Contents - tables

• Complete Wikimedia Help Content
• Tables

Images

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Navigational_image
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fixing_transparent_PNGs (faudrait le faire !!)
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SVG_image_support
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_markup_with_HTML (OLD !!)

Transclusion, templates, etc.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_editing

Extensions

Many wikis use extensions that extend the syntax of this wiki.

Computer source code syntax

Instead of using the "pre" tag or indenting lines to the right you also could use the "source" tag.

• Extension:SyntaxHighlight GeSHi (Mediawiki). Consult this for details.

Example 1:

<source lang="html4strict" line start=1 >
 <h1>Title</h1>
 <p align="center">para text</p>
</source>

Will show as

 <h1>Title</h1>
 <p align="center">para text</p>

You may use the following parameters:

• lang: Defines the language (e.g. actionscript, javascript, xml, php)
• line: Enables line numbers
• start: Number of start line
• enclose: takes values "none", "div", "pre"
• strict: true or false.

To try out things

• Please use the SandBox