Help:Contents

This is a quick help page with a combination of links to more detailed pages, practical help issues and FAQs. Feel free to contribute.

Getting started

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list

Additionally, consult the User's Guide for more information on using the wiki software.

Creating a page

ADVICE:

• It is recommended that you save your editing document from time to time.
• If you want to avoid that others receive an email because of unfinished versions just tick the "This is a minor edit" option, of course assuming that the user has chosen not to receive alerts when minor edits occur. =)

Creating a new page

This is easy and it can be done in two ways:

• When editing a page, use the Internal link format for the new word/title/subject, etc. that will have its own page. For example, we can create here an Internal link to a page explaining how to export email lists by typing [[How to export email lists]] giving as a result an empty page How to export email lists. You know that the page is empty because the font is red

You can choose different names for the link to the page. For example, in the case above this will be [[How to export email lists| Click here to learn how to export email lists]]. In this way the reader will see a link reading "Click here to learn how to export email lists".

or alternatively

• In the address of the main page just change Main_Page to the title/name of the new page. For example, to create the page How to export email lists just edit in the address bar

  http://wiki.josephluis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

  to

  http://wiki.josephluis.com/index.php?title=How to export email lists

IMPORTANT: After creating a page be sure you edit the [[Table of Contents]] to add a link to it 

How can I hide the table of contents? (taken from the FAQ)

The table of contents (TOC) is automatically shown once there are four or more headings in the article. The are multiple ways to hide it.

For one page

Place the magic word __NOTOC__ into the page markup.

For all pages

Edit the CSS files; locate the style for the table of contents and add display: none; to the definition.

Per user

Users can also opt to have the table of contents hidden. This is a user preference, set in Special:Preferences.

Keeping track of changes

To keep track of changes in a page you have to add it to your Watchlist.

If you want to be emailed when changes occur, select the appropriate options on your Preferences:User Profile:Email

The Special pages in the Toolbox in the left side bar contains many tools-pages with information about the development of the wiki and logs of what is happening on it.

Roll back to previous edits

Click the history tab and compare versions. Choose the one you want to roll back to (click in the link that shows the date) and click edit.