Wiki Editing CheatSheet

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This page is intended to assist editors of the SmartSimple Wiki please refer to this page before you make revisions and additions.

Follow these practices for building your Wiki page:

  • Make it brief.
  • Add hyperlinks to other pages where SmartSimple's terminology is used.
  • Add an image of the subject(s) of the article.
  • Add a "See Also" section with related articles that may or may not have been mentioned in the text.
  • Put your page under one or more Categories.

More help can be found mediawiki.org



Contents

Text Formatting

Bullets

Create bullets like an unordered-list

  • Bullet 1
  • Bullet 2
* Bullet 1
* Bullet 2

Bold Text

Bold Text

'''Bold Text'''

Italicized Text

Italicized Text

''Italicized Text''

AddingSuperscript

textsuperscript

Text<sup>superscript</sup>

AddingSubscript

Textsubscript

Text<sub>subscript</sub>

#Numbered...

  1. Item
  2. Item
  3. Item
  4. Item
# Item
# Item
# Item
# Item

Preformatted text

You can have HTML or WIKI syntax appear the way you typed it by wrapping the code with an opening < and pre and > then a closing < / pre and > tag. This is used for examples of what to type into the wiki.

your code goes here

Heading Levels

Level 1 is for page name.

==level 2==
===Level 3===
====Level 4====
=====Level 5=====
======Level 6======

Tables of Contents

MediaWiki adds a table of contents at the top of the page when you have four or more headers.
To change this behavior, at the top of the page, add:

__NOTOC__ 	Hides the table of contents (TOC). 	
__FORCETOC__    Forces the table of contents to appear at its normal position (before the first header).
__TOC__ 	Places a table of contents at the word's current position (overriding __NOTOC__).

Hyperlinks

Links to Internal Pages

Link to internal page

Branding

[[Branding]]

Link to internal page with different text

Different text

[[Branding|Different text]]

Links to External Pages

Add a link to an external webpage

smartsimple.com

[https://www.smartsimple.com smartsimple.com]

Note:

  • You must specify text for the link or it will show up as a number.
  • All external links open in a new window.

Image Files

  1. Under the Global Actions, press Upload file.
  2. Press the Choose File button to select an image and press Open.
  3. Press the Upload File button


To display an image

The four disability classifications
[[File:a11y-disability.png|thumb|none|500px|The four disability classifications]]

Images are uploaded at a resolution of 800 pixels but displayed at 500px. Make sure you add a caption.

Image with internal link

The four disability classifications
[[File:a11y-disability.png|thumb|none|500px|The four disability classifications|link=Accessibility]]

Image with external link

The four disability classifications
[[File:a11y-disability.png|thumb|none|500px|The four disability classifications|link=https://www.smartsimple.com/agreements.html]]

Tables

Syntax

Syntax Description
{|
table start
|+
table caption, optional; only between table start and first table row
|-
table row,
!|
table header
||
table data each cell
|}
table end

Example

Sample Header Sample Header
Sample Text Sample Text
Sample Text Sample Text
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!|Sample Header
!|Sample Header
|-
||Sample Text
||Sample Text
|-
||Sample Text
||Sample Text
|-
|} 

Categories

Adding a Category to a Page

[[Category:Help]]

Adding a Category to a Page with a Different Label

[[Category:Help|Help category]]

Adding a Link to a Category Page

[[:Category:Help|Help category]]

For more info, go to MediaWiki Help: Categories

Templates

Pages that start with the phrase "Template:" can be used in a similar fashion to SmartSimple's System Variables. They can contain blocks of text, such as commonly used terms, Wiki tables and uploaded images. You should use templates if a term, table or image will be repeated across multiple pages. The template can be referenced by surrounding the template name (minus the leading "Template:" string) with {{double brackets}}.

Example Templates

How to Add a User to Wiki:

  • On left panel, click on Special pages
  • Under Login / create account, click on Create account
  • Fill in details and send random password
  • On left panel, click on Special pages again
  • Under Users and rights, click on User rights management
  • Type in username, click on Edit user groups
  • Add administrator, bureaucrat and smartstaff groups, click on Save user groups