TrueEarth wiki cheatsheet
True Earth wiki cheat sheet
Page BuildingTips
Topic | How To |
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Create New Page | 1: In an appropriate area, Create a link to a page that doesn't exist. For example: [[Your Page]] 2: use the link to navigate to your new page, It will automatically put you into create page mode. |
Get examples from other pages | Click Edit on another page to look how it was built. Click Cancel when finished. |
When editing a page, make sure to "expand" the Advanced toolbar |
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Links
Topic | How To |
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Link to a page | [[Page Name|Friendly Name]] [[Folder/Page Name|Friendly Name]] Example: [[Observations/Interferometry/Dayton Miller|Dayton Miller]] |
Link to a video or other website | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjiwzClN490 Friendly Name] |
Make a Image Link | [[File:ImageFile.png|40px|link=Page Name|Friendly Name]] |
Make a PDF Link (no preview) | [[:File:PDFDocument.pdf|Friendly Name]] |
Formatting Tips
Topic | Example |
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Bold Text | '''Your text''' = Your text Or highlight the text you want bold and use the Bold button from the wiki editor toolbar: |
Italic Text | ''Your text'' = Your text Or highlight the text you want italic and use the Italic button from the wiki editor toolbar: |
Superscript Text | <sup>Your text</sup> = Your text Or highlight the text you want in superscript and use the Superscript button from the wiki editor toolbar: |
Numbered List | # Numbered list item = 1. Numbered list item Or click the bullet icon on the wiki editor toolbar: |
Bulleted List | * Bulleted list item = • Bulleted list item Or click the bullet icon on the wiki editor toolbar: |
Heading | == Heading text == Use "Heading 2" from the Heading dropdown |
Subheading | === Subheading text === Use "Heading 3" from the Heading dropdown |
Block Quote | <blockquote>Your Text here</blockquote> A fancy way to show a quote somebody made, For Example:
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Inline Ref LinK | <ref name=RefName></ref> |
References Section | <references>...Your References Here (See below)...</references> |
References in Ref Section | <ref name="RefName">Reference Text or Link</ref> |
Table Example:
(You can use this example, but it's best to use the editor's built in Table creator icon)
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Table Caption
|- ! Header text !! Header text !! Header text
|- | Example || Example || Example
|- | Example || Example || Example
|- | Example || Example || Example
|}
Help Topic Links
Topic | Link |
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General Help (Index of help topics) | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents |
Image Help | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images |
Table Help | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables |
Formatting Help | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting |
Cite / Reference Help | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Cite |
Link Help | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links |
More Link Help | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links/en |
Administration Links
Topic | Link |
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Upload File | https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:Upload |
List of uploaded files | https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles |
List of broken links | https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages |
User List | https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers |
User Rights | https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:UserRights?user= |
Get help for building pages
- Training videos - Sometimes watching a video is easier to learn from.
- Community support - Can't work this thing? request a page to be built for you, or ask for help.
- Community requests - Edit the community request page to add a list of ideas that you would like to see built.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources to help you learn how to edit a wiki / ways to contact wikitide support for site trouble.
Please, before you contact wikiTide, reach out to our own wiki contributor community first here: Community support
- True Earth wiki discussion Telegram - A telegram channel dedicated to discussion of the true earth wiki. Ask questions or get help there.
- Help Guide - Online Help on MediaWiki (e.g. navigation, editing, deleting pages, blocking users)
- Help Center - Online help center On WikiTide.
- WikiTide FAQ - Frequently asked questions On WikiTide.
- WikiForge Discord - Chat with Wikitide support people (like if there's site issues)
- Phorge - Get help On Phorge.
- IRC - Get help On IRC in #wikiforge on irc.libera.chat.