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Getting started is easy. Just create an account using the '''login/create account''' link at the upper right. Then send an e-mail to '''brted at yahoo period com''' to be confirmed. Once you are confirmed you will see an '''edit''' tab at the top of | Getting started is easy. Just create an account using the '''login/create account''' link at the upper right. Then send an e-mail to '''brted at yahoo period com''' to be confirmed (or send a PM to brted at either Candlepower Forums or Budget Light Forums). Once you are confirmed you will see an '''edit''' tab at the top of every page that will let you edit the page. If you see some kind of formatting you like on one page you can just edit that page and see how it was done. Here are a few of the basics, but you can see a lot more [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples here]. | ||
==Discussion Pages== | ==Discussion Pages== | ||
Even if you don't want to edit a page, feel free to add comments, suggestions, or questions to the '''discussion''' tab of a page (you have to register and confirm for this too, since discussion pages are frequent spam targets). Start a topic by typing in a heading (see below). Respond to a comment by typing below it, starting your comment with a colon (:). Sign your comment by adding 4 tilde's at the end like this <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, which looks like this (and gets converted to markup when you save the page): [[User:Brted|Brted]] 17:37, 7 December 2010 (EST) | Even if you don't want to edit a page, feel free to add comments, suggestions, or questions to the '''discussion''' tab of a page (you have to register and confirm for this too, since discussion pages are frequent spam targets). | ||
* Start a topic by typing in a heading (see below). | |||
* Respond to a comment by typing below it, starting your comment with a colon (:). | |||
* Sign your comment by adding 4 tilde's at the end like this <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, which looks like this (and gets converted to markup when you save the page): [[User:Brted|Brted]] 17:37, 7 December 2010 (EST) | |||
More discussion page tips [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages here] | More discussion page tips [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages here] | ||
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==Headings== | ==Headings== | ||
You can make a heading like the one above by using | You can make a heading like the one above by using double equals like this: <tt><nowiki>==Headings==</nowiki></tt>. To get a sub-heading, use triple equals like this: <tt><nowiki>===Subheading===</nowiki></tt>. Always start with a heading and subdivide to sub-headings as needed. An outline at the beginning of the page will be created automatically based on the heading structure. You don't need to start the page with the title, it will be added in automatically. | ||
==Links and New Pages== | ==Links and New Pages== | ||
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'''Internal links:''' For a link to another page on the wiki, put double brackets around the name of a page: <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt> and it will show up as a link, like this [[Main Page]]. If you want to have the link appear with different text, use a | like this <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page|Flashlight Wiki]]</nowiki></tt> and it will appear like this: [[Main Page|Flashlight Wiki]]. You can also link to a subsection of a page by using # in the link like this: <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page#Flashlights|Flashlight sub-section]]</nowiki></tt>, to get this link: [[Main Page#Flashlights|Flashlight sub-section]]. | '''Internal links:''' For a link to another page on the wiki, put double brackets around the name of a page: <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt> and it will show up as a link, like this [[Main Page]]. If you want to have the link appear with different text, use a | like this <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page|Flashlight Wiki]]</nowiki></tt> and it will appear like this: [[Main Page|Flashlight Wiki]]. You can also link to a subsection of a page by using # in the link like this: <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page#Flashlights|Flashlight sub-section]]</nowiki></tt>, to get this link: [[Main Page#Flashlights|Flashlight sub-section]]. | ||
To create a '''new page''', just edit an existing page, insert an internal link to the new page, preview and then save the page you are editing, | To create a '''new page''', just edit an existing page, insert an internal link to the name you want to give the new page, preview, and then save the page you are editing. Once the page edited is saved, you can view it and you should see a red link with the name you gave to the page. Click the red link and it will open an editing page for the new page. | ||
'''Terminology links:''' If you are linking to items on the [[Terminology]] page, | '''Terminology links:''' If you are linking to items on the [[Terminology]] page, you can link to them as subsections (described above). However the terms on the terminology page are not subsections unless you add a SPAN tag. So first you have to go to the Terminology page and make sure the item has a SPAN tag identifying it (you will see others already done) like this (for the term "OP") <tt><nowiki><span id="OP">OP</span></nowiki></tt>. That sets up an anchor that you can then link to like it is a subsection. So on some page referring to that term you can make a link like this <tt><nowiki>[[Terminology#OP|OP]]</nowiki></tt> which will look like this [[Terminology#OP|OP]]. | ||
'''External links:''' Use single brackets with the URL followed by a space and the text of the hyperlink: <tt><nowiki>[http://www.google.com Google]</nowiki></tt> to get a link that looks like [http://www.google.com Google] | '''External links:''' Use single brackets with the URL followed by a space and the text of the hyperlink: <tt><nowiki>[http://www.google.com Google]</nowiki></tt> to get a link that looks like [http://www.google.com Google] | ||
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==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
To make a footnote, include the footnote where the the little number is supposed to go and in between <nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki> tags. So I will put a sample footnote at the end of this sentence that I would type in as <nowiki><ref>Sample footnote</ref></nowiki>.<ref>Sample footnote</ref> Now for the footnote to show up at the bottom of the page, I have to put another tag by itself that looks like this <nowiki><references/></nowiki>. So I'll put that down at the bottom of the page, but I'll also add a section called References. | To make a footnote, include the text of the footnote where the the little number is supposed to go and in between <nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki> tags. So I will put a sample footnote at the end of this sentence that I would type in as <nowiki><ref>Sample footnote</ref></nowiki>.<ref>Sample footnote</ref> Now for the footnote to show up at the bottom of the page, I have to put another tag by itself that looks like this <nowiki><references/></nowiki>. So I'll put that down at the bottom of the page, but I'll also add a section heading called References. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||