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The name is case-sensitive, except for the first letter, which is automatically made upper-case. Don't capitalize all words, except for proper names, e.g. we use [[Natural paint basics]], not [[Natural Paint Basics]]. | The name is case-sensitive, except for the first letter, which is automatically made upper-case. Don't capitalize all words, except for proper names, e.g. we use [[Natural paint basics]], not [[Natural Paint Basics]]. | ||
Remember to give your page a name that tells people at a glance what it's about. e.g. either "Smithville Local Exchange Trading System" or "SLETS (Smithville Local Exchange Trading System)" is better than just "SLETS". | Remember to give your page a name that tells people at a glance what it's about. e.g. either "Smithville Local Exchange Trading System" or "SLETS (Smithville Local Exchange Trading System)" or "Smithville local currency scheme" - any of these is much better than just "SLETS". | ||
For guidelines on naming projects and other types of pages, see [[Help:Page naming]]. | For guidelines on naming projects and other types of pages, see [[Help:Page naming]]. | ||
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Revision as of 11:42, 23 April 2010
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Editing a wiki is easy! Just type it in like an email. If you want to do more, then read the page below for info on formatting. And you can always drop us a line and the community can help format it for you.
Creating a new page
The quickest way to create a new page is to perform a search for the new title with the Go button. When the search finds nothing, click on the red link "create this page".
Naming conventions
The name is case-sensitive, except for the first letter, which is automatically made upper-case. Don't capitalize all words, except for proper names, e.g. we use Natural paint basics, not Natural Paint Basics.
Remember to give your page a name that tells people at a glance what it's about. e.g. either "Smithville Local Exchange Trading System" or "SLETS (Smithville Local Exchange Trading System)" or "Smithville local currency scheme" - any of these is much better than just "SLETS".
For guidelines on naming projects and other types of pages, see Help:Page naming.
Formatting
You can format your text using wiki markup. The easiest way to do this is to select the text, then use the formatting bar above the edit box - click B for bold, for example. To see what a button does, hover you mouse over it and hover text should appear, explaining the button. However you can put the formatting in yourself as well, if you wish.
Wiki markup consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''
Paragraphs
Appropedia ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br>.
Formatting Marks
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Italify text | ''italic'' | italic | ||||
Bold text | '''bold''' | bold | ||||
Bold and italic | '''''bold & italic''''' | bold & italic | ||||
Big | <big>BIG</big> | BIG | ||||
Small | <small>small</small> | small | ||||
Colored text (choose a color.) | <font color="lime">colored text</font> | colored text | ||||
Escape wiki markup | <nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki> | no ''markup'' | ||||
Signature (use this to sign comments) | ~~~~ | Username Time, Date (Zone) | ||||
only at the beginning of the line | ||||||
Headings of different sizes |
==level 1== |
Level 1 Level 2 | ||||
Horizontal rule (use sparingly) |
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Bullet list |
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Numbered list |
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Definition list |
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Preformatted text |
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Tables
Main article: Help:Tables |
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External links
Description | You type | You get |
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Internal link | [[Page]] | Page |
Piped link | [[Page|different text]] | different text |
External link | http://mediawiki.org | http://mediawiki.org |
External link, different title |
[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki] | MediaWiki |
External link, unnamed |
[http://mediawiki.org] | [1] |
Wikipedia superscript |
Smithville{{wp sup|Smithville, Northern Elbonia}} | SmithvilleW |
Here are some variations of two important types of links in Appropedia: internal links to other pages in the wiki - including files (such as pictures) and external links to other websites.
To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already, it is displayed in blue, empty pages are displayed in red.
The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link has the same effect as typing a space, but is not recommended).
External links are in the form [http://www.example.org link name] (resulting in link name), with the link name separated from the URL by a space. Links without link names will be numbered: [http://www.example.org] becomes [1]. Links with no square brackets will be displayed in their entirety: http://www.example.org .
HTML
Some HTML-Tags are allowed in Appropedia, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.
Files
Appropedia strongly encourages the use of supporting media to make articles more informative. Media that supports multilingual learning is also encouraged. Following are some instructions and guidelines on including media in your page.
Uploading
Before uploading, please ensure that you have rights to upload and redistribute the file(s) in question and that you in turn grant these rights to others.
- Save a file on your computer and remember where, i.e. what folder.
- Make sure to give it a unique name, such as your projectname_description.jpg
- For photos: Save the photo with no dimension greater than 800 pixels, and do less if big is not necessary
- For photos: Save the photo rotated in the proper orientation
- In Appropedia, click the "Upload a file" link located in the "toolbox" menu on the left
- Click the "Browse..." button in the "Upload file" page, and browse to the file you saved
- Choose the file
- This will fill the Source and Destination Name of that file into the corresponding text fields.
- Enter a summary. (this step is optional but considerate)
- This summary section is a great place to indicate why you have rights to post the file
- Then press the "Upload file" button to finish the upload. This may take some time if you have a slow internet connection.
The preferred formats are JPEG for photographic images, PNG for drawings and other iconic images, and OGG for sounds. Please name your files descriptively to avoid confusion.
Please note that as with wiki pages, others may edit your uploads (and admins may delete them) if they think it serves the project, and you may be blocked from uploading if you abuse the system.
Once your file is uploaded you will probably want to put it in your page.
Avoid huge image files
Huge image files should be avoided - it puts a load on the servers and makes pages load slowly (especially in remote or underdeveloped areas). Usually the file should be compressed to 100 kB or less (200 kB or less for a very large or detailed picture). Raw photos from digital cameras can be more than 1 MB, which is much too large.
An image editing tool can help you make it smaller. An excellent free program for Windows users is Faststone.Here are some instructions for the mac, the file sizes are reported to be a little bigger, but it should work.
Putting in image
To put your picture (file) in your page, you link to it by placing double brackets around the name of the file page (as if it was another Appropedia page). For instance if you just uploaded a file named AEFprevfilt2.jpg, you would put double brackets around image:AEFprevfilt2.jpg.
See wikipedia:Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for more options.
- To embed videos see Help:Video
Categories
Categories on Appropedia are used to organize content. For instance if there are many individual articles on the topic of water, it might make sense to create a category for water.
To Create a category called Water type http://appropedia.org/Category:Water into the address bar
To make a link to the Water category (a visible link, rather than adding the page to that category) type [[:Category:Water]] . If you want the link to display with different text, type [[:Category:Water | LINKTEXT]] where LINKTEXT is the text that will be displayed as the link.
More info
See Category:Appropedia help for other specific help topics. See also Wikipedia:How to edit a page and Wikipedia:Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia.
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