Edit help


 * Advanced Tutorial
 * Alternate Introduction
 * How to convert a file for upload to Hampedia
 * Wiki Markup Instructions
 * MediaWiki FAQ

Text formatting markup
{| class="wikitable" ! Description !! You type !! You get ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | character (inline) formatting – applies anywhere
 * Italic text
 * italic
 * Bold text
 * bold
 * Bold and italic
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * bold
 * Bold and italic
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * bold & italic
 * Escape wiki markup
 * Escape wiki markup

no markup ! colspan="3" style="background:#ABE" | section formatting – only at the beginning of the line
 * Headings of different levels
 * =level 1=
 * =level 1=

level 6
An article with 4 or more headings automatically creates a table of contents.

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6
 * Horizontal rule
 * and  for breaking a line within an item may also be controversial.
 * 1) one
 * 2) two
 * 3) * two point one
 * 4) * two point two
 * 5) three
 * 6) ; three item one
 * three def one
 * 1) four
 * four def one
 * this rather looks like the continuation of
 * often used instead of
 * 1) five
 * 2) five sub 1
 * 3) five sub 1 sub 1
 * 4) five sub 2
 * item 1
 * definition 1-1
 * definition 1-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2
 * item 2
 * definition 2-1
 * definition 2-2

preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line This way of preformatting only applies to section formatting, and character formatting markups are still effective. preformatted text is done with a space at the beginning of the line
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * Preformatted text
 * }

Paragraphs
MediaWiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tags.

Links to Hampedia Pages
When you want to make a link to another Hampedia page (called a wiki link ) you have to put it in double square brackets, like this:
 *  Sandbox  = Sandbox

If you want the display text of the link to have a different title, you can do so by adding the pipe "|" divider (SHIFT + BACKSLASH on English-layout and other keyboards) followed by the alternative name. For example:
 *  display text  = display text

You can make a link to a specific section of a page like so:
 *  display text  = display text

Please check your links to ensure they point to the correct article. For example, Apple points to the article about the fruit, while Apple, Inc. is the title of the article about the computer manufacturer. There are also "disambiguation" pages - these are not articles, but pages which contain links to articles with similar titles. Some, such as Apple (disambiguation) are obvious, while others such as Georgia use generic titles. These differing titles make piped links especially useful, as a link to Georgia (country) is far less readable than a piped link called Georgia.

HTML
Some HTML tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example,  ,   and. These apply anywhere you insert them.

Adding Images
To add an image or any other file you first need to make sure Hampedia will accept that kind of file by checking this page.

Now that you have the file in the right format, you want to click upload file which is found in the left hand menues. Chose your file or enter the url of the file you would like to upload. Where it asks for the Destination filename is where you specify what you want the name of the file to be on the hampedia server. You can enter either a file path or just a file name for this. In the summery box you should explain what is in the file you uploaded whether it be the contents of a picture or a text file. Then press Upload file at the bottom of the page.

Once the file has uploaded go to the page that you wish to add the file and go to the editing section. Find where you want to place the image and press the button that looks like a picture in the editor. This will insert into your page. Change Example.jpg to whatever you put in the Destination filename section when you uploaded the file.

For example:

creates this: