Help:Editing
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Welcome to the help page for editing the myUPB wiki. This will give you a crash course in formatting and data management to post here. For a more detailed guide, visit the MediaWiki help page.
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Basic Formatting
Here are the simple commands to format text: To bold text:
Put three single-quotes around the text: '''This text is bold'''
To italicize text:
Put two single-quotes around the text: ''This text is italic''
Using a typewriter font:
Use the <tt> and </tt> tags to make typewriter text
Underlines and strikethroughs are done just like in HTML:
<u>Underlined</u> and <strike>Striked</strike>
Subscript (xi) and Superscript (x2)
Subscript is done like this: x<sub>i</sub>, Superscript is: x<sup>2</sup>
Section Headings
To make sections in your pages, you must define section headings. Headings are done in tree-style, using heading levels.
Use equal signs to make headings: == Heading 1 == === Heading 2 === ==== Heading 3 ==== and so on.
Newlines
If you make a newline in the edit page, it has no effect on formatting. For example:
Text is here Line 2 is here
Text is here Line 2 is here
To seperate lines, you must use a line break tag: <br />. The only exception to this is in <pre> tags which are explained below.
Text is here<br /> Line 2 is here
Text is here
Line 2 is here
If you skip a line, however, the system treats it as a new paragraph and uses <p> tags to separate it:
Paragraph 1 Paragraph 2
Lists
Using lists is easy with wikitext. It's as easy as one character.
Unordered (Bulleted) Lists
To make a bulleted list, use the * character:
* Item 1 * Item 2 * Item 3
That code makes this list:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Ordered Lists
To make a numbered list, use the # character:
# Item 1 # Item 2 # Item 3
That code makes this list:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
A newline marks the end of a list and restarts numbering:
# Item 1 # Item 2 Newline # Item 3
That code makes this list:
- Item 1
- Item 2
Newline
- Item 3
Definition Lists
You can make indented definition lists too:
- Word
- Definition
; Word <- use a semicolon for the word : Definition <- use a colon for the definition
Horizontal Lines
Use four hyphens to make a horizontal bar. Try to use section headers instead of bars whenever possible though.
Text above ---- Text below
Text above
Text below
Links
Internal Links
To link to an internal document — that is, a page inside this wiki — use double-square-brackets:
Go to the [[Main Page]]
Go to the Main Page
To label an internal link differently than its file name, use a pipe:
Click [[Main_Page|here]] for the Main Page
Click here for the Main Page
External Links
Linking to an external file is just as easy. Use a single square bracket instead:
External site: [http://www.google.com]
If you don't give an external link a label, it will get a notation link like this: [1]. To label an external link, leave one space after the URL and put the label:
Go to the [http://www.google.com external site].
Go to the external site.
If you just type a URL without brackets, it will be linked as the actual URL (no notation or label) http://www.google.com
Code blocks
To make the spiffy code blocks like on this page, use a combination of the <pre> and <nowiki> tags:
<pre><nowiki>This text is in a code block</nowiki></pre>
Making New Pages
To make a new page, either click a link from another page that points to a non-existant page (will be colored red by the system), or go to a non-existant URL. For example, http://www.myupb.com/wiki/index.php/Non_Existant_Page. It will automatically give you a new page to edit.
