Help:Contents

This is a very brief help guide. The full help guide is on the mediawiki help site.

The most basic idea: Type. Skip two lines for a paragraph break. Click the buttons above the edit bar for other things.

Contents 1 Basic Editing 2 Lists and Outlines 3 Links 4 Categories 5 Tables 6 Adding an Image 7 Using HTML 8 Your Userpage

Basic Editing

• Text is text.
• Skip two lines for paragraph breaks.
• Use equal signs (=) around headings... more equal signs for smaller headings:

==This is heading 2==
===This is heading 3===

If the first character of a line is a space, it'll look all code-y like that, with the fixedwidth fonts.

Lists and Outlines

Use asterisks (*) to make list items, or number signs (#) to make numbered lists. More symbols = deeper outline levels. Examples:

I've been to 
* Illinois
** Chicago
* Georgia
** Atlanta
** Savanah

To get there, I
# Got an airplane ticket
# Went to the airport
# Let the nice lady touch my pants

Links

For links to other pages in this wiki, use two brackets with a vertical line between the link and the text you want to show up. So, to link to the page about our awesome forum, use:

[[forum|our awesome forum]]

For links outside the wiki, use single brackets and a space between

[http://spacefem.com/forum Our awesome forum]

Categories

You should definitely add a category to every page. You might want to check Special:Categories first to find one you like. Then at the bottom, add them all in their own tags:

[[Category:Your mom]]
[[Category:Jokes]]

To link to a category, use a colon before the word "category":

[[:Category:Your Mom]]

Tables

For this one, you probably really do want to refer to Mediawiki Table Help. But just for fun, here's a tiny bit of table code:

{|
|  Orange    ||   Apple   ||   more
|-
|   Bread    ||   Pie     ||   more
|-
|   Butter   || Ice cream ||  and more
|}

Adding an Image

Start by adding code like this in the page you'll display the image on:

[[Image:Example.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Caption that describes the picture]]

If there's no image by that name (in this case, Example.jpg, but you'll add your own) there will be a link displayed in place of the image when you save the page. Click that link and you'll be prompted to upload a file.

The "center" can be "left", "right", or excluded entirely. The "100px" can be any width, or excluded entirely.

Using HTML

HTML works here, but only use HTML if you can keep it pretty simple. Keep in mind that the next person to edit your page might not know HTML and could be freaked out if you did anything too crazy.

Do not use HTML to link to another page on this wiki, use the brackets. HTML links won't get picked up for page's "What Links Here" index, and it'll look like an external link, that sort of thing.

Do not use HTML to create headings, because for some reason the little "edit section" links don't show up next to them.

Your Userpage

If you click your name on the top of the page, you'll be at your userpage. You can put whatever you want on there. It's generally considered polite to edit only your own userpage... if you want to get someone else's attention, use his/her talk page.

Somewhere on your page, add this tag:

<phpbbuser>

This will pull your Spacial Profiling questions and add a link to your forum profile.