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Topics
How to Create a New Document
First make sure you have a user account and login. Click on the "log in / create account" in the top right corner.
In the search box, type the title of the new page. The search results should tell you there are no title matches.
Click on "create this page".
How to Edit a Page
The first thing you need to do in order to edit the page is to click on the [Edit] button at the top of the page.
Adding Page or Document Properties
Contact us for info.
How to add a link
In order to create links, you will need to specify them with tags as follows.
[[Link to another page]] or [[Link|different title]] Internal Link to another page on the wiki
[target label], with a blank space in between: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wikimedia] gives wikimedia, an external link
Section and Categories
Sections in Mediawiki are created by creating their headers. Please, use the example below and replace Section, Subsection and Sub-Subsection with the names you would like to give to your sections:
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
formatting tips
''italic'' makes text italic '''bold''' makes text bold '''''bold and italic''''' makes text bold and italic
Categories
[[Category:Example]] Add article to category “example“
Horizontal line ---- horizontal line
Bullet list * one * two * three
Numbered list # one # two # three
Image with alternative text [[Image:File.jpg|Text]]
Image aligned right with caption [[Image:File.jpg|frame|Text]]
Thumbnail [[Image:File.jpg|thumb|Text]]
Download link [[Media:File.ogg]]
Include template “Name” {{Name}}
Redirect to another article #REDIRECT [[Other article]]
List of Special Pages and Admin Links
http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Special_pages
http://ctdatahaven.org/know/index.php/Special:ConfirmAccounts
