Editing guide
From The Rats Nest
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Dave's Brief Editing Guide
Creating A New Page
In the address bar you should currently see:
http://theratsnest.org.au/index.php/Editing_guide
To create a page change "Editing_guide" to be the name of your new page. ie:
http://theratsnest.org.au/index.php/My_new_page
start editing.
Intra-Links
Links to other Rats Nest pages.
[[Main_Page]] will appear as Main_Page
[[Main_Page|Fred]] will appear as Fred
Extra-Links
To other places on the net.
[http://www.anu.edu.au ANU Web Site] will appear as ANU Web Site
Headings and Font Style
There are several levels of heading in Mediawiki
Title heading, currently not used on this site. (HTML H1 tag)
= Rats Nest =
A Section Heading, like at the top of this page, will appear as a main item in the table of contents.
== Dave's Brief Editing Guide ==
Sub-Sections
Adding more equals signs makes smaller text and sub-sections in the table of contents.
==== Sub-Sections ====
Bold Text
You can embolden text by surrounding the text with 3 apostrophes.
'''Bold Text'''
Italic Text
Italics are similar to bold except only 2 apostrophes are used.
''Italic Text''
Underlined Text
Underlining requires the use of the HTML tags as seen below.
<u>Underlined Text</u>
Tables
Now we get a bit more complicated.
{|border="1"
!align="center"| Title 1
!align="center"| Title 2
|-
|align="center"|Row 1
|align="center"|Coll 2
|-
|align="center"|Row 2
!align="center"|Last
|}
produces
| Title 1 | Title 2 |
|---|---|
| Row 1 | Coll 2 |
| Row 2 | Last |
