JumbaWiki:Basics
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So you're want to contribut to the wiki, great! It's easy! To contribute, you just need to ... write.
Table of Contents
The table of contents comes up automatically when there are 3 or more main titles and looks like this:
Contents |
- If you want to place is somewhere different, you can write __toc__
- If you want to remove it all together, you can write __NOTOC__
Linking
If you want to link to another wiki article, you put double square brackets around the phrase - e.g. [[CPanel]] will link to the cPanel page!
To link to a page with different words, put a '|' in there like this [[CPanel|text you want to appear as a link]] - text you want to appear as a link.
Formatting
- Bold - '''bolded text''' (three single quotes either side)
- Italic - ''italicized text'' (two single quotes either side)
- Bullets - *Bullet Item (asterix at start of line)
- Sub Bullets - **Bullet Item (two asterix at start of line)
Here's a heirachy of headings.
Main Headings
==Main Headings== (two equal signs either side - result is like Formatting above)
Sub Headings
===Sub Headings=== (three equal signs either side - result is like sub heading above)
Sub-sub Headings
====Sub-sub Headings==== (four equal signs either side)
User talk
Click the "discussion" link on each article to discuss issues with articles that don't have to sit in the main article. You can also talk with users by going to their user page or talk apge (eg. User talk:Aussiepete).
Replying to talk messages
When replying to talk messages, indent your reply so it doesn't get lost.
- Use a colon to indent your text (:).
- Use two colons to indent further, ans so on (::).
Signing your name
When talking, sign your name so they know who it's from!
- 3 tildes (~~~) will sign your name only. (eg. Aussiepete)
- 4 tildes (~~~~) will sign your name and time posted. (eg. Aussiepete 19:17, 20 July 2006 (EST))
- 5 tildes (~~~~~) will sign the time posted only. (eg. 19:17, 20 July 2006 (EST))
Creating an article
If you want to create an article which doesn't exist, there're two ways to go about it.
- If you search for the page you want to create, and it doesn't exist, there will be a link to create this page. Remember to keep page titles simple and not too long.
- also if you enter the URL at the top - http://wiki.jumba.com.au/wiki/Article_Name. Once again, if the article doesn't exist, you will be able to edit this page.
When you do create an article, remember to create links to it in other relevant pages so people can find it! Also, check out the Categories page for some categories it may fit into (to put an article into a category, just put [[Category:Category Name]] at the bottom of the article.
Those should get you started. The other great thing about wikis is if you see something on one page you want to put into another - you can see how they did it quite simply by hitting edit and looking at the syntax!
Writing code
When writing code snippets that require special formatting or get interpreted by wiki strangely you can use these:
- <nowiki>This text doesn't [[wikify]] because I've used the nowiki tags</nowiki>
- You can also creade a plaintext box displayed like this:
putting a space at the beginning of a line can still be formatted and linked unless you again use nowiki tags.
Summary
Here are some tips to follow when setting up articles
- It's good to break content up into titles and subtitles for structure.
- Add your new article to Categories by placing [[Category:Category Name]]
- Each page should generally have a See also to interlink with related articles.
- If you list some websites or resources, make a title External links and put them there!
See also
- This is all too much, give me something simple - Jumba Wiki for Dummies
- See Help:Editing for a more complete guide to editing and creating articles (taken from Wikipedia's editing guide)!
- Pages that need expanding
- Stubs - articles tagged as needing work. Remove the stub label when you feel it's extensive enough.
- Pages that need creating
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