Formatting
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Wiki Structure
- Wiki's are optimized for rapid page creation and editing by multiple users. To facilitate this, wiki has its own formatting and rules. These rules are listed below.
- To create something, be it a webpage or a new image, you simply need to create a link to it. If it does not exist already, the link will appear in red. When this link is clicked on, the wiki will take you to an editing page so that you can create the page/upload the file.
- If you see something not listed here, just press 'edit' at the top of the page and you can see the formatting that was used.
Link Formatting
- To create a link to a new page, simply use a pair of square brackets to surround the link. This will create a web page with the title inside the square brackets
See more about [[Todd Murphey]]will link to the page titled 'Todd Murphey'
- To provide a link with a different name than the title of the page, use a vertical bar, with the name of the link on the right side of the bar and the actual name of the page on the right.
See more about [[Todd Murphey|Todd]]will link to the page 'Todd Murphey' but will look like- See more about Todd
- To link to a subsection of a page, append a hash.
See more about [[Todd Murphey#Publications]]- See more about Todd Murphey#Publications
- To create an external link, put the URL inside a single set of square brackets, followed by a space, and then how you would like the link to be named.
Search on [http://www.google.com/ google's homepage]- Search on google's homepage
Image Formatting
- To embed a picture in the middle of a webpage, use two sets of square brackets around Image:ImageName. Alternative text may or may not be included.
[[Image:image.jpg]][[Image:image.jpg|Alternative Text]]
- To float an image to the right inside a frame, use the frame attribute. The alternative text will now appear as the image subheading.
[[Image:image.jpg|frame|Alternative Text and frame subheading]]
- To float an image without a frame or subheading replace frame with right
[[Image:image.jpg|right|Alternative Text and frame subheading]]
- To disable the display of the image and instead link directly to it, place a semicolon in front of the Image attribute.
[[:Image:image.jpg]]
Text Formatting
- Bullet points are created using the * character at the start of the text to be bulleted. The text will be bulleted/indented until a carriage return or a new bullet is encountered.
- To create subheadings, place = characters around the heading name, and place increasing amounts over progressive subheadings.
=Heading===Sub-Heading=====Sub-Sub-Heading===
- To bold or emphasize text, place single quotations around the text. Place more single quotations for more emphasized text.
''Emphasized/Italicized text'''''More emphasized/Bold text'''''''very emphasized/bold and italicized''''
- To create an indent, place : in front of the text to be indented.
- To create a 'codeblock' or to color the background, use the <code> tag. This tag is ended with a </code> tag.
- To create a table, the easiest way is to use standard HTML table tags such as <table><tr><td>
- If you wish to suppress wiki formatting, for instance to put a tag in, put it inside <nowiki> tags
- If you want indenting and carriage returns to be displayed exactly as entered, surround the text with <pre> tags
- Wiki allows mathematical formulas to be input directly through the use of tags. Place the formula inside <math> tags. For more information see the wiki help on math formula formatting.
Administration
- For information on how to set User Groups and Create Namespaces. Note: You must have administrative priviledges to be able to see this page.
More Information
- To view a complete reference, visit the official wiki formatting help page