Help:MediaWiki Editing
All the MediaWiki editing rules apply.
~ Aristotle Sabouni |
Remember, MediaWiki is the engine underneath Wikipedia, so virtually all the rules/techniques for editing applies. Their help page is here: [1]
Cheatsheet[edit | edit source]
99% of the time, the basics of Markdown is all you'll need. And then you only need a subset of the cheatsheet (things like bold, italic and headers), most of the important and more complex formatting should be handled by the iGeekCore templates.
Deeper[edit | edit source]
But if you need more, or you want to understand Wikipedia, you can get quite deep/complex into formatting.
Beyond the Cheatsheet for basic text formatting, most editors will just need to know how to add a few templates and parameters.
But to create those templates, or for really custom pages, the advanced stuff (down in the weeds) is in MW (or SMW).
To dive into editing the text using MediaWiki, there's a lot of help on that at the MediaWiki wesbite:
- Editing: Editing Pages, Starting a new page, Formatting, Links, User Page, Talk Pages, Signatures, Visual Editor,
- Advanced: Images, Lists, Tables, Categories, Subpages, Managing files, Moving (renaming) a page, Redirects, Protected pages, Templates, Magic words, Namespaces, References, Special pages, External searches, Bots
But that's only the foundation (a subset) of what iGeek does (just the basics for the body of an article). The structured data is built on Semantic MediWiki Basics, and is simplified/displayed using iGeek's Template Engine.
The structure is:
- MediaWiki (MW) - lowest level, used for basic character formatting and linking
- Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) - mid (object) level, used for structuring data elements and querying
- iGeek Template Engine (iGTE) - high level, what most editors will use to add elements/tables or tag data.
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