MediaWiki Crash Course

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[edit] Introduction

I hope nobody would take the title of this page literally, i.e., crash the website :-)

Listed here are the basic MediaWiki basic functions just to get you started. To get information on the full functionally of MediaWiki, please go to the MediaWiki User's Guide.

[edit] Basic Functions

When you click the edit tab, the article will enter into edit mode. In edit mode you may perform the following functions:

• Text Formatting - you may use the toolbox, thus, highlight the text then click on B to make the text bold

• Links to a local wiki page - [[Page's Title]]. An optional 'alternate text' for the hyperlink may also be provided (for example - [[Page's Title|alternate text ]]).

Specifying a non-existing page will cause the hyperlink to be highlighted in red. Clicking on this hyperlink will automatically put you in edit mode and you are effectively creating the new page. Once the page is created, the hyperlink pointing to the newly created page will now be highlighted in blue.

• Links to external URL - [www.google.com.au]

• Headings - the number of equal sign corresponds to the heading level as shown below:

• • =Heading Level 1=
  • ==Heading Level 2 ==
  • ===Heading Level 3===

• Lists

• • Unordered List - the number of asterisk equals the level of the list as shown below:
    • * Unordered List Level 1*
    • ** Unordered List Level 2**
    • *** Unordered List Level 3***
  • Ordered List - the number of hash signs equals the level of the list as shown below:
    • # Unordered List Level 1#
    • ## Unordered List Level 2##
    • ### Unordered List Level 3###

• Table - MediaWiki supports XHTML, HTML and pipe syntax

A sample table definition using pipe syntax:

{| border="1"
|row1,col1 || row1,col2 || row1,col3
|- 
|row2,col1 || row2,col2 || row2,col3
|- 
|row3,col1 || row3,col2 || row3,col3
|}

[edit] Sandbox

If you want to try out any MediaWiki functions, you might want to try it out on the Sandbox. The sandbox will get cleaned up from time to time so never put anything you intend to keep in there.