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===Support=== | ===Support=== | ||
Revision as of 00:38, 25 December 2007
Contents
Getting started with the GARD Guide Wiki
Basic
- Read Me First if you have never edited a Wiki before.
- How to manage your user account.
- Recommended text formatting standards.
- Understanding the Editing Tool Bar.
- Using the discussion pages.
Intermediate
- Spellchecking: Firefox browser has spellcheck built in. Firefox will spellcheck when entering data into any Web form.
- Adding page links and adding pages.
- To add a page in this Wiki:
- Create a link to the desired page on an existing page.
- Click on your new link which will take you to your new blank page.
- Formatting internal and external page links.
- This link to the Sand Box looks like this in edit mode: [[SandBox|Sand box]] with double square brackets and a bar between the page name and the display text.
- The syntax to an outside link is different. The link INAP Web site looks like this in edit mode: [http://www.inap.com.au/ INAP Web site] with single square brackets and a space between the page URL and the display text.
Advanced
- Chemical Equations. For example: HC2H3O2(aq) ⇌ H+(aq) + C2H3O2-(aq)
- Uploading images and using them in pages. Once an image is uploaded, it can be displayed by typing an image link containing the name of the image onto the page.
- Creating and modifying tables.
- Citations in text are surrounded by ref tags: <ref>Citation text </ref> which will display as [1]. Put <small><references/></small> at the bottom of the page to receive the references.
Support
- To request updates to the main menu or to request assistance, email: cmuller@golder.com (Conrad Muller at Golder Associates, Redmond, WA US)
- Use the sand box pages to experiment with MediaWiki.
Online References
- WikiMedia User's Guide
- Wikihowto - A user maintained How-To site for MediaWiki
- MediaWiki FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
For additional help, email: cmuller@golder.com (Conrad Muller at Golder Associates, Redmond, WA US)
- ↑ Citation text
