Help:Basic Editing
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[edit] Editing basics
- Start editing
- To start editing a page, click the edit tab at top of page. This brings 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. If you just want to experiment, please do so in the sandbox, not here.
- Type your changes
- You can just type your text. However, also using basic markup to make links and do simple formatting adds to the value of your contribution.
These are short instructions. For more information see Meta.Wikimedia
If this terse instruction set is unclear or inadequate, users are requested to fix it. Thanks.
See also: Wiki Tutorial, Make New Page and Wiki Mark-up
[edit] 5 most commonly used tags
[edit] 1. Headers
- Surround text of header with "=="
- Use more "===" for sub headings
- Such headers are automatically placed in page Table of Contents
- Unless you include __NOTOC__ anywhere on the page (and don't surround it with <nowiki> tags like I did here!)
==Header==
[edit] 2. Indents
- Use colons at start of line (more for deeper indent)
::Use colons
[edit] 3. Bullets
- Use stars at start of line (more for sublists)
*Use stars
[edit] 4. Links and New Page
- URL's are automatic links, e.g., http://esipfed.org
- Square brackets surround links we build inside the wiki
- New pages are generated by surrounding a unique, local name with square brackets (I prefix with "ESB" for links local to this page to save generic names for the admin)usually followed within the brackets by a vertical bar "|" and the text you want shown to indicate the link
[[ESB New page name|visible name]]
[edit] 5. Transclude a Page
- Transclusion is generally the inclusion of the content of a document into another document by reference
{{:Transcluded Page Name}}
- More on Transclusion
