Help:Contents

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WikiMedia:Help:Contents

The above link goes to the MediaWiki help pages, which suck.

Below are the very basics, which is all most of us need to know:

Contents 1 Links 1.1 Internal link 1.2 External link 1.3 Link to image 2 Images 2.1 Image, in line 2.2 Image, floating 2.2.1 Right 2.2.2 Left 2.2.3 Center 2.2.4 New Line 2.3 Clear floating image 2.4 Image, thumb 2.5 Navigational Image 3 Categories 3.1 Assign category 3.2 Link to category 4 Other stuff 4.1 Highlight box 4.2 Embed another page's content 4.2.1 An article 4.2.2 An image's description 4.2.3 Flash movie

Links

Internal link

[[somepage | Some fake page]] → Some fake page

External link

[http://www.google.com Google] → Google

Link to image

[[:image:Rebeccas Birthday - 71 - 2004-04-03 17-34.jpg | Some picture]] → Some picture

Images

Image, in line

Blah blah blah [[image:Rebeccas Birthday - 71 - 2004-04-03 17-34.jpg|Here's a picture|100px]] 100 pixels wide.

Blah blah blah 100 pixels wide.

Image, floating

Right

[[image:Rebeccas Birthday - 71 - 2004-04-03 17-34.jpg|Here's a picture|100px|right]] stuff stuff stuff...

stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff.

Left

[[image:Rebeccas Birthday - 71 - 2004-04-03 17-34.jpg|Here's a picture|100px|left]] stuff stuff stuff...

stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff.

Center

[[image:Rebeccas Birthday - 71 - 2004-04-03 17-34.jpg|Here's a picture|100px|center]] stuff stuff stuff...

stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff.

New Line

[[image:Rebeccas Birthday - 71 - 2004-04-03 17-34.jpg|Here's a picture|100px|none]] stuff stuff stuff...

stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff.

Clear floating image

{{ClearImage}}

Clear the last floating image. i.e. Starts after the last image

Image, thumb

[[image:Rebeccas Birthday - 71 - 2004-04-03 17-34.jpg|Here's a picture|100px|thumb|left]] stuff stuff stuff...

stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff.

Navigational Image

You'd think [[page name | [[image:image name]]]] would work. Turns out you have to use a redirect on the image you want to display. Which is dumb.

Categories

Assign category

[[category:some category]] assigns the current article to the category "some category". If the category is new, it appears in red. Click on it to create it.

Link to category

[[:category:''some category'']] to link to "some category."

Other stuff

Highlight box

{{HltPink|text goes here}} highlights in pink like this text {{HltBlue|text goes here}} highlights in blue like this text

No, there aren't any other colors (yet).

Embed another page's content

An article

{{:somepage}}
This is a fake page to use an an example.

blah blah blah

An image's description

{{image:Rebeccas Birthday - 71 - 2004-04-03 17-34.jpg}}
A couple of losers.

Flash movie

<flash>http://www.someurl.com/flashfile.swf</flash> embeds a flash file.