Mediawiki-help

This wiki is an instance of a MediaWiki. As every wiki likes to have its own entirely different syntax and rules, here is a link to the full reference guide: Mediawiki Help Contents

If you have any questions, please feel free to post them on this page! I will be checking regularly.

Here are some quick tips and links, however:

• Use the top menubar for basic editing
• To create bulleted lists:
  • Put a single asterisk in the first column for the top level bullet
    • Put two asterisks starting in the first column for the first indented level
      • Add asterisks for every level of indent
      • You can edit this page and look at the syntax used here as an example
      • Here is the link to the Mediawiki Lists Syntax: Mediawiki Lists Help
• To create a table:
  • Put a {| to start the table and a |} to end the table
  • Put a {- to start a row
  • Put a | to start a table cell
  • Edit this page City_Web to view an example (and cancel your edit when done)
  • Here is the link to the Mediawiki Table Syntax: Mediawiki Table Help
• Using Links
  • To refer to an another wiki page in the same wiki, put the page name in double square brackets
  • To refer to an external URL, put the link uRL in single square brackets
  • Here is the link to the Mediawiki Links Syntax for fancier stuff: Mediawiki Links Help
• Smaller / Larger fonts
  • To increase or decrease font-size, you can use the html style attribute span tags to embed different font sized text (you will need to provide a percentage change from the default).
  • Usually, it's best to use pre-defined headers or html css for project-wide formatting of text.
  • For one-offs or smallish projects, you can use them on individual lines of smaller/larger font like so:

 <span style="font-size:88%"> your small font text here </span>

If you need any help with editing this wiki, feel free to get in touch with me (Nivedita Singhvi, niveditasinghvi@gmail....)