Help

From Harvard Strike Project Wiki

To edit a page, click on the edit link at the top of the page. The wiki uses special markup to add links and formatting, which is briefly explained here. A more detailed guide is available on the MediaWiki website here. When in doubt, you could find a simple Wikipedia article and open it up to see how it's written.

Contents 1 Basics 2 Formatting 2.1 Text and links 2.2 Sections 2.2.1 An example subsubsection 2.3 Lists 2.4 Images 2.5 Categories

[edit] Basics

To create a new page, just edit the URL in your browser to point to the title you want for your page, and edit the resulting blank page. When you are done editing the page, click save.

[edit] Formatting

[edit] Text and links

• Bold text can be created in one of two ways: <b>text to be bolded</b> or '''text to be bolded''' (that's three apostrophes in a row). Italic text uses <i> or '' (two apostrophes).

• To make an internal link (a link to another page on the wiki), use two brackets around the title of the page you are linking to. [[Main Page]] produces Main Page. You can also change the text of your link by using the | character. [[Main Page|This is a link to the main page]] produces This is a link to the main page.

• To make an external link (a link to somewhere else on the web), use single brackets: [http://somedomain.com/urlstring/page.html Link title] produces Link title. If you simply enclose the URL in brackets like [http://google.com], you get [1].

• Indent text using the ":" character

[edit] Sections

Sections (like the Formatting section on this page are created by enclosing the section name in double equals signs, like ==Section title==. Subsections like this Sections section are created by using three (or four, for another level of hierarchy) equals signs.

[edit] An example subsubsection

text

indented text

double indented text

[edit] Lists

Edit this page to see an example here

1. Bulleted lists are created using the * character
2. Numbered lists are created using the # character
   1. lists can be indented by using more than one of these characters.

[edit] Images

Upload an image file using Special:Upload (accessible from the toolbox at the bottom left). You can then put that image in an article using [[Image:Image file location.jpg|alignment|size|caption]], where alignment (optional) is right or left, size is a size in pixels like 250px, and caption is an optional caption.

[edit] Categories

You may wish to categories. For example, adding [[Category:People]] produces the link seen at the bottom of the page.

Blah