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Help:Contents
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Tutorials by Wiki Users for Other Users.
Formatting Citations
- Chicago Style Citations:
- Wikipedia Style Citations (not used on this wiki but for general reference):
Wiki Features Help Pages
- MediaWiki Editing 101 (FAQ), start here.
- MediaWiki Editing 401, Wiki Markup (The Whole Shebang).
- Detailed Help on Tables
- A WikiTables generator - helps learning how to format tables.
- Detailed help on images.
- Support Java Script for Various Wiki Functions.
- How to include content from other pages.
- Creating Hyperlinks.
- Convert Docs to Wiki Markup.
- How to use Signatures.]
- Hide the table of contents on any page.
- Hiding the main page title.
- Editing the Left Sidebar Menu.
- Editing the Sitenotice.]
- Command: Manually Purging Pages.
- Using __Magic Words__
- Understanding Namespaces
Wiki Extensions Help Pages
- Adding the __NOTITLE_ Magic word extension.
- Extension: Using Cite for references and footnotes on pages.
- Extension: Using Category Tree
- Extension: Google Analytics.
- Extension:Embed Documents.
- Extension:Syntax Highlighter.
- Extension:ParserFunctions.
- Extension:ExpandTemplates.
- Extension:Popups are little info windows that pop up when hovering on page and reference links.
- Extension:PageImages collects information about images on pages for Popups.
- Extension:TextExtracts Takes the text of the page for Popups.
Wiki Extensions Under Consideration
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList3
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PdfHandler
Wiki Configuration
- Configuring File Uploads.
- Items per category page.
- Gallery configuration options.
- File Cache Directory for server side caching.
- All about performance caching on Mediawiki.
- MediaWiki configuration settings 1.6.0
- Thumbnail Regeneration.
- How to Debug.]
Development
Consideration of Switching to a Wikifarm
