TrueEarth wiki cheatsheet

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True Earth wiki cheat sheet

Page BuildingTips

Topic How To
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.
Make sure to "expand" the Advanced toolbar

Links

Topic How To
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
Bold Text '''Your text''' = Your text

Or highlight the text you want bold and use the Bold button from the wiki editor toolbar:
Bold button

Italic Text ''Your text'' = Your text

Or highlight the text you want italic and use the Italic button from the wiki editor toolbar:
Italic button

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:
Superscript button

Numbered List # Numbered list item = 1. Numbered list item

Or click the bullet icon on the wiki editor toolbar:
Numbered List button

Bulleted List * Bulleted list item = • Bulleted list item

Or click the bullet icon on the wiki editor toolbar:
Bullets button

Heading == Heading text ==

Use "Heading 2" from the Heading dropdown
Heading menu

Subheading === Subheading text ===

Use "Heading 3" from the Heading dropdown
Heading menu

Make a Quote <blockquote>Your Text here</blockquote>
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) Table button

{| 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
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
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.
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