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Help:Contents

2008-10-27T21:38:32Z

Emufarmers: Pipe link

{{PD Help Page}}
==Reading==
* [[Help:Navigation|Navigation]]
* [[Help:Searching|Searching]]
* [[Help:Tracking changes|Tracking changes]]
* [[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]]

==Editing==
* [[Help:Editing pages|Editing pages]]
* [[Help:Starting a new page|Starting a new page]]
* [[Help:Formatting|Formatting]]
* [[Help:Links|Links]]
* [[Help:User page|User pages]]
* [[Help:Talk pages|Talk pages]]
* [[Help:Signatures|Signatures]]

===Advanced editing===
* [[Help:Images|Images]]
* [[Help:Tables|Tables]]
* [[Help:Categories|Categories]]
* [[Help:Subpages|Subpages]]
* [[Help:Managing files|Managing files]]
* [[Help:Moving a page|Moving (renaming) a page]]
* [[Help:Redirects|Redirects]]
* [[Help:Deleting a page|Deleting a page]]
* [[Help:Protected pages|Protected pages]]

* [[Help:Templates|Templates]]
* [[Help:Variables|Variables]]
* [[Help:Namespaces|Namespaces]]

* [[Help:Special pages|Special pages]]
* [[Help:External searches|External searches]]

===Personal customization===
* [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]]
* [[Help:Skins|Skins]]

==Wiki administration==

* [[Help:Sysops and permissions|Sysops and permissions]]

The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.

* [[Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protecting and unprotecting pages]]
* [[Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting|Sysop deleting and undeleting]]
* [[Help:Patrolled edits|Patrolled edits]]
* [[Help:Blocking users|Blocking users]]
* [[Help:Range blocks|Range IP blocks]]
* [[Help:Assigning permissions|Assigning permissions]]

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Help:Moving a page

2008-10-27T21:38:03Z

Emufarmers: moved Help:Moving (renaming) a page to Help:Moving a page over redirect: Moving back to old title; just use a piped link in Help:Contents

{{PD Help Page}}

'''Moving (renaming) a page''' means giving it another name. This is done by using "{{int:move}}" tab at the top. Then simply enter the new name and click 'Move Page'. Normally you would want to leave "Move associated talk page" option ticked.

If you move page "A" to a new title "B", this operation will do the following:
* Creates the new page "B", with contents from page "A"
* Replaces the contents of page "A" with ''Redirect'' to "B".
* Moves all the editing history from page "A" so that it appears under "B"'s history tab.


The third point is important. By using the 'Move' feature, you also '''move the editing history''', which is desireable in most situations. The editing history allows people to see how the contents of the page were built up, and who contributed what. If you move contents around by copying and pasting (not using the move feature), you do not achieve this.

Because the move operation '''leaves behind a redirect''' (see [[Help:Redirects]]), it should not result in any broken links, however you might want to hunt down the pages which link in to the redirect, and change their text to link directly to the new title. The 'What links here' toolbox feature (bottom left) is useful when doing this.

== Proposing a move ==
Deciding on a page title can be a difficult aspect of wiki organization, and one which can often provoke debates. If the move you have in mind is one which might cause upset or could be considered controversial, you should propose the move first. Do this by leaving a note to give your reasons on the [[Help:Talk pages|talk page]]. You might also establish a system for labelling the page itself, with a move proposal template, to make everybody aware of your intentions.

== Undo a move ==
As with all wiki editing, a move operation can be reversed (by any user). To reverse a move operation, simply move the page back, e.g. move page "B" back to "A".

The page title "B" will still be left behind, as a redirect from "B" to "A". Any user can remove the redirect and propose that the page be deleted. However the final deletion will require sysop privileges (see [[Help:Deleting a page]]).

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[[Category:Help|Moving a page]]

Help:Links

2008-10-13T20:43:56Z

Emufarmers: /* More advanced */ fix

{{PD Help Page}}
There are four sorts of links in MediaWiki:
# internal links to other pages in the wiki
# external links to websites
# [[#Interwiki links|interwiki links]] (links to other wikis)
# inter-language links to other language versions of the same wiki

To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. If the page exists already, it is displayed in blue, empty pages are displayed in red. Selflinks to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in bold.

The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).

== How to link ==
{| {{Prettytable}}
|-
|{{Hl3}}|'''Description'''
|{{Hl3}}|'''You type'''
|{{Hl3}}|'''You get'''
|-
|Internal link
|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Main Page]]
|-
|Piped link
|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page|different text]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Main Page|different text]]
|-
|External link
|<tt><nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki></tt>
|http://mediawiki.org
|-
|External link, 
different title
|<tt><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]</nowiki></tt>
|[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
|-
|External link, 
numbered
|<tt><nowiki>[http://mediawiki.org]</nowiki></tt>
|[http://mediawiki.org]
|-
|Anchor link
|<tt><nowiki>[[#See also]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[#See also]]
|-
|Anchor link at another page
|<tt><nowiki>[[Help:Images#See also]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Help:Images#See also]]
|-
|Category link
|<tt><nowiki>[[:Category:Help]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[:Category:Help]]
|-
|Internal link to image file
|<tt><nowiki>[[media:example.jpg]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[media:example.jpg]]
|-
|Internal link to pdf file
|<tt><nowiki>[[media:example.pdf]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[media:example.pdf]]
|-
|Interwiki link
|<tt><nowiki>[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Wikipedia:MediaWiki]]
|-
|mailto link
|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org email me]</nowiki></tt>
|[mailto:info@example.org email me]
|-
|redirect
|<tt><nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt>
| → [[Main Page]]
|}

=== More advanced ===

{| {{Prettytable}}
|-
|{{Hl3}}|'''Description'''
|{{Hl3}}|'''You type'''
|{{Hl3}}|'''You get'''
|-
|Piped link, 
different title
|<tt><nowiki>[[Main Page|different text]]</nowiki></tt>
|[[Main Page|different text]]
|-
|External link, 
same host unnamed
|<tt><nowiki>[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]</nowiki></tt>
|[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename]
|-
|External link, 
other host, pass pagename
|<tt><nowiki>[http://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}]</nowiki></tt>
|[http://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}]
|-
|mailto named with subject line and body
|<tt><nowiki>[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info]</nowiki></tt>
|[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info]
|}

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{{admin tip|tip=
Which protocols (like http:) are allowed for links is controlled by the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgUrlProtocols $wgUrlProtocols] setting.
}}

{{admin tip|tip=
To remove the 'external link image' from next to each of the external links, add the following to the page located at <code>MediaWiki:Monobook.css</code> on your wiki.

<pre>
#bodyContent a.external,
#bodyContent a[href ^="gopher://"] {
background: none;
padding-right: 0;
}
</pre>
}}

== How to avoid auto-links ==

By default, when you write a URL as is, it will be transformed to an external link.

To avoid that effect, put the URL between <nowiki> start & end tags as in:

<nowiki><nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki></nowiki>

== Interwiki links ==
Interwiki links are links from the local wiki to another wiki. For example you can link to the Sunflower article on wikipedia.org by typing <tt><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Sunflower]]</nowiki></tt>. This results in a link like this: [[wikipedia:Sunflower]]

Similar to internal page links, you can create piped links, with alternate link text. e.g. <tt><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Sunflower|big yellow flower]]</nowiki></tt>

Basically this is an abbreviation for longer URLs. A very similar link could be created as a normal external link by typing <tt><nowiki>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower Sunflower]</nowiki></tt>, but interwiki links allow you to type out an easy and compact link, almost as if you are linking to a page on your own wiki.

Some interesting things to note:
* Interwiki links are displayed slightly differently to external links, without the little external link icon.
* Complex page names with spaces and other characters are handled elegantly, just as they would be for an internal page link, making this more tidy than creating an external link to a full URL. For example <tt><nowiki>[[wikipedia:Sunflower County, Mississippi]]</nowiki></tt> is in some ways tidier and more elegant than the full URL : <tt>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_County%2C_Mississippi</tt>

== See also ==
* [[Help:Linked images|Linked images]]

{{Languages|Help:Links}}

[[Category:Help|Links]]
[[Category:Link]]

Template:Mediawiki

2008-08-04T09:22:46Z

Emufarmers: Undo revision 204394 by 59.163.21.134 (Talk | contribs)

{{ #ifeq:
{{SERVERNAME}}
| www.mediawiki.org
| [[{{{1}}}|{{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]]
| [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/{{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} {{{2|{{{1}}}}}}]
}}<noinclude>
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This template links to a page on mediawiki.org from the [[Help:Contents|Help pages]]. The template has two parameters:
# Pagename
# (optional) Link description

{{ #ifeq:
{{SERVERNAME}}
| www.mediawiki.org
| This is so that the public domain help pages - which can be freely copied and included in other sites - have correct links to Mediawiki:
* on external sites, it creates an external link
* on Mediawiki, it creates an internal link

'''All''' links from the Help namespace to other parts of the mediawiki.org wiki should use this template.}}

[[Category:Info templates|MediaWiki]]
</noinclude>