Help:Contents
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Intro to the Help Section
- What is a wiki?
- A wiki, in short, is a community-editable piece of information. It has been popularized by Wikipedia.org, a ginormous, free, editable, online encyclopedia. Here, we are just focusing on Connecticut College.
- Why do I need help?
- Wiki technology is basically a giant, dynamic database of information. Thus, it is important to be able to navigate the database, and make it so that your edits are just as intelligent and easy to navigate.
- I'm convinced it's cool, so what do I need to know?
- In short you need to know the "wiki language". This language is comprised of methods to display your information and make it able to link to other articles on this site, or to create whole new articles. Everything you need to know to edit this site, the basics at least, are listed below. You have been given a great power, use it responsibly. It can be taken away.
- Please note that some help links will bring you to the Wikipedia help section. You can browse that for more Wiki-ing tips.
- Also, please catagorize items. The help section on that is at the very bottom.
-The ConnWiki Team
Editing Basics
- Start editing
- To start editing a ConnWiki page, click on the "Edit this page" (or just "edit") link at one of its edges. This will bring you to the edit page: a page with a text box containing the wikitext, the editable source code from which the server produces the webpage.
- Summarize your changes
- You should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the legend.
- Preview before saving
- When you have finished, press preview to see how your changes will look -- before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click "Save" and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.
Wikitext markup -- making your page look the way you want it
- If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the Sandbox.
Organizing your writing -- sections, paragraphs, lists and lines
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Start sections with header lines Note: Single equal signs give the highest level heading, like the page title; usually projects have the convention not to use them.
New section Subsection Sub-subsection |
== New section == === Subsection === ==== Sub-subsection ==== |
A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph, or ends a list or indented part. (<p> disables this paragraphing until </p> or the end of the section) (in Cologne Blue two newlines and a div tag give just one newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline, the result is two newlines) You can make the wikitext more readable by putting in newlines. |
A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph. |
| You can break lines without starting a new paragraph. (The HTML tag <br> is sufficient. The system produces the XHTML code <br />.) |
You can break lines<br> without starting a new paragraph. |
marks the end of the list.
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* Unordered Lists are easy to do: ** start every line with a star *** more stars means deeper levels *A newline *in a list marks the end of the list. *Of course *you can *start again. |
marks the end of the list.
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# Numbered lists are also good ## very organized ## easy to follow #A newline #in a list marks the end of the list. #New numbering starts #with 1. |
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* You can even do mixed lists *# and nest them *#* or break lines<br>in lists |
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Definition list
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; word : definition of the word ; longer phrase : phrase defined |
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
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: A colon indents a line or paragraph. A manual newline starts a new paragraph. |
Centered text.
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<center>Centered text.</center> |
| A horizontal dividing line: above
and below. If you don't use a section header, you don't get a TOC entry. |
A horizontal dividing line: above ---- and below. |
Links, URLs
More information at Help:Link
Internal links
General notes:
- Enclose the target name in double square brackets -- "[[" and "]]"
- First letter of target name is automatically capitalized
- Spaces are represented as underscores (but don't do underscores yourself)
- Links to nonexistant pages are shown in red.
- When the mouse cursor "hovers" over the link, you see a "hover box" containing...
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Sue is reading the official position (or Official positions). |
Sue is reading the [[official position]] (or [[Official position]]s). |
A link to the page on another wiki (e.g. the same subject in another language)
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*For more info see [[m:Help:Interwiki linking]]. |
If the section doesn't exist, the link goes to the top of the page |
*[[List of cities by country#Morocco]]. *[[List of cities by country#Sealand]]. |
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Use a pipe "|" to create a link label: |
*[[Help:Links|About Links]] *[[List of cities by country#Morocco| Cities in Morocco]] |
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"blank" pipes hide stuff:
After you save, the server automatically fills in the link label. |
*In parentheses: [[kingdom (biology)|]]. *Namespace: [[Wikipedia:Village pump|]]. |
The weather in London is a page that doesn't exist yet.
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[[The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist yet. |
You should "sign" your comments on talk pages:
The server will fill in the link after you save. |
You should "sign" your comments on talk pages: : Your user name: ~~~ : Or your user name plus date/time: ~~~~ |
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one article title to another with this special link. |
#REDIRECT [[United States]] |
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ISBN 0123456789X RFC 123 |
To include links to non-image uploads such as sounds, use a "media" link.
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[[media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]] |
Use links for dates, so everyone can set their own display order. Use Special:Preferences to change your own date display setting. |
[[July 20]], [[1969]] , [[20 July]] [[1969]] and [[1969]]-[[07-20]]will all appear as 20 July-1969 if you set your date display preference to 1 January 2001. |
"What links here" and "Related changes" can be linked as: |
[[Special:Whatlinkshere/ Help:Editing]] and [[Special:Recentchangeslinked/ Help:Editing]] |
External links
| Nupedia, [1] | [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia], [http://www.nupedia.com] |
| Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com. | Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com. |
Images, video, and sounds
See also: Help:Image, Images_and_other_uploaded_files
| What it looks like | What you type |
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A picture: [[Wikipedia:Image:Wiki.png]] or, with alternative text (strongly encouraged) [[Wikipedia:Image:Wiki.png| Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia]] Web browsers render alternative text when not displaying an image -- for example, when the image isn't loaded, or in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud. See Alternative text for images for help on choosing alternative text. See Extended image syntax for more options. There is more information on resizing and other formatting tricks. |
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[[:Image:Wiki.png]] [[media:Wiki.png|Wikipedia]] |
| Other Media Links -- Video and Sounds
Use a "media" link: Sound
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[[Wikipedia:media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]] |
Text formatting -- controlling how it looks
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Emphasize, strongly, very strongly. (These are double and triple apostrophes, not double quotes.) |
''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''. |
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You can also write italic and bold. This is useful in mathematical formulas where you need specific font styles rather than emphasis.
(The difference between these two methods is not very important for graphical browsers, so most people ignore it). |
You can also write <i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b>. This is useful in mathematical formulas where you need specific font styles rather than emphasis. :<b>F</b> = <i>m</i><b>a</b> |
| A typewriter font, sometimes used for technical terms. | A typewriter font, sometimes used for <tt>technical terms</tt>. |
| You can use small text for captions. | You can use <small>small text</small> for captions. |
| You can and underline new material. |
You can <strike>strike out deleted material</strike> and <u>underline new material</u>. |
| Subscript: x2 Superscript: x2 or x² Most browser have an easier time formatting lines with ² than with <sup>2</sup> |
Subscript: x<sub>2</sub> Superscript: x<sup>2</sup> or x² ε<sub>0</sub> = 8.85 × 10<sup>−12</sup> C² / J m. 1 [[hectare]] = [[1 E4 m²]] |
Spacing things out -- spaces and tables
x2 ≥ 0 true. |
<i>x</i><sup>2</sup> ≥ 0 true. |
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See templates Wikipedia:Template:hs1, Wikipedia:Template:hs, and Wikipedia:Template:vs for more examples |
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|<i>x</i><sup>2</sup>
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| a || || b
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See Help:Table for more information |
Just show what I typed
<nowiki> and <pre> tags can tell the server and the browser to display things as you typed them.
arrow → italics link |
arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] |
arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] |
<nowiki> arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] </nowiki> |
arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] |
<pre>arrow → ''italics'' [[link]]</pre> |
arrow → italics link |
arrow → ''italics'' [[link]] |
IF a line of plain text starts with a space it will be formatted exactly as typed in a fixed-width font lines won't wrap ENDIF this is useful for: * pasting preformatted text; * algorithm descriptions; * program source code * ASCII art; * chemical structures; WARNING If you make it wide,
you force the whole page to be wide and
hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces. (see also below)
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IF a line of plain text starts with a space
it will be formatted exactly
as typed
in a fixed-width font
lines won't wrap
ENDIF
this is useful for:
* pasting preformatted text;
* algorithm descriptions;
* program source code
* ASCII art;
* chemical structures;
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arrow → italics link |
<tt>arrow →</tt> <tt>''italics''</tt> <tt>[[link]]</tt> |
→ |
&rarr; |
The text between here and herewon't be displayed |
The text between '''here''' <!-- comment here --> '''and here'''won't be displayed |
Complicated mathematical formulae
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<math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>
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<math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>
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Special characters
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Umlauts and accents: (See MediaWiki User's Guide: Creating special characters) |
è é ê ë ì à À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô œ õ ö ø ù ú û ü ÿ |
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Punctuation: |
¿ ¡ « » § ¶ † ‡ • - – — |
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Commercial symbols: |
™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ |
| Greek characters: α β γ δ ε ζ |
α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω |
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Math characters: |
∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔ → ↔ ↑ |
Including another page -- transclusion and templates
Changing a transcluded file will change every file that transcludes it.
Hey all. This is a demo article for the help section. Links that arrive here include:
If you want to make real links out of any of these, feel free to do so. But My guess is it'd be best to keep "Broken Links" broken, so that people can see what broken links look like. But all these are fair game. If you feel like it. I don't know that there's a point. Back to the Help page. |
{{:Transclusion Demo}} |
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A special kind of page designed for transclusion. These pages are found in the Template: namespace Templates can even take parameters. When you edit a page, all the templates used on the page are listed below the edit box. Hey all. This is a demo article for the help section. Links that arrive here include:
If you want to make real links out of any of these, feel free to do so. But My guess is it'd be best to keep "Broken Links" broken, so that people can see what broken links look like. But all these are fair game. If you feel like it. I don't know that there's a point. Back to the Help page. |
{{Title|hovertext|This is underlined}} |
