Editing
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MediaWiki Markup
To create or modify QED content requires some familiarity with MediaWiki markup. By design, it is easy to do simple things with wiki markup, and the learning curve for doing more complex tasks is very shallow.
Millions of people use MediaWiki markup and probably most of them simply started by editing an existing page. Here at any rate is a summary of the basics.
Contents |
Headers
The above header was produced by ==Headers==.
Higher Level Header
The above header was produced by ===Higher Level Headers===.
Highlighting
| How it looks while editing | How it looks when displayed |
|---|---|
| 'single' | 'single' |
| ''two singles'' | two singles |
| '''three singles''' | three singles |
| ''''foursome'''' | 'foursome' |
| '''''bold and italic''''' | bold and italic |
| "double quotation marks" | "double quotation marks" |
Links
There are several different types of links:
- External links are blue, but with a small glyph on the right-hand side consisting of a box and arrow, like so.
- Internal links that go somewhere will be blue, like so: Main Page
- Internal links to pages that do not yet exist are shown in red like so.
Assuming you have editing rights, you can simply click on a red link to create a page.
Examples
| How it looks while editing | How it looks when displayed |
|---|---|
| http://www.google.com | http://www.google.com |
| [http://www.google.com] | [1] |
| [http://www.google.com Google] | |
| [[MG]] | MG |
| [[MG|Mapping Globalization]] | Mapping Globalization |
Linking to User Pages
Everyone with a login has a "user page". These pages exist in the "User:" namespace, that is, the page name has the prefix "User:". So the user page of someone with a netid of "tiger" would be "User:Tiger" which may also be written as "user:tiger" or "User:tiger".
Examples:
| How it looks while editing | How it looks when displayed |
|---|---|
| [[User:tiger]] | User:tiger |
| [[User:tiger|Tiger Cub]] | Tiger Cub |
To create a link to the User:tiger page, one uses the internal link syntax as illustrated in the examples below.
Categories
To include a page in a category, simply include a hyperlink to the category anywhere in the page.
For example, to place a page in Category:Geography, add the text: [[Category:Geography]].
The prefix "Category:" is used to refer to the Category: namespace, just as the prefix "User:" is used to refer to the User: namespace.
To create a link to the documentation page for a category, use the format illustrated in the following table.
| How it looks while editing | How it looks when displayed |
|---|---|
| [[:Category:Geography]] | Category:Geography |
| [[:Category:Geography|]] | Geography |
