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This is a guide to help you use our new DSM Wiki section. If after you read through this Help section and you find you still have questions then post a message in the Wiki Help Forum. And as always, if you think you can add to this Help section feel free to do so.
Official Guides
Creating Articles
Creating an article starts with creating a new page and is quite easy. All you have to do is go up to your address bar and paste in this URL: www.dsmtuners.com/wiki/index.php/NewPage - replace the term "NewPage" in the URL with the name of the page you want. The name should be short and descriptive for the article you're posting. For consistency we'd like to try and not use spaces in page names if possible.
Now once you enter the name of the new page you want to create you'll be taken to a page that is basically empty. If you are taken to a page with an article already posted you'll need to choose a different naming scheme. That means the page has already been created. If you want to see a list of pages already created you can Click Here.
To upload images, click here. To include the image in a page, use a link in the form [[Image:File.jpg]], [[Image:File.png|alt text]] or [[Media:File.ogg]] for directly linking to the file.
On a Blank page you'll see some text telling you that there is currently no text for that page and that you can Edit the page. Click the Edit button and add your article text in the text box. When you're done, click Save Page down at the bottom. That's it, you've created an article (and a new page in the wiki).
Adding Your New Article to a Category
Once you create your article you'll want to add it to a category so that others will be able to find it. This is very easy to do. First, you'll need to find the category it belongs in by browsing the categories in the left navigation. You'll see that some categories will have sub-categories. Try and place your article in a sub-category when possible.
Once you determine the best category, simply Edit your article and add the following text at the very bottom of the article: [[Category:Intake]] - replace the term "Intake" with the category name you want it to show up in.
At the very bottom of the page place a link back to the main index page with this text: [[DSMwiki Index]]
Creating a New Category
We may find that new categories need to be added for better usability. We will ask that before you create a category you first post a message in the [http:// Wiki Help Forum] to discuss the new category. We are very serious about making this Wiki an easy resource to navigate and categorization of articles if very important.
Once we've all decided the best option for a category you simply follow the same steps as creating a page. Just type in this URL: www.dsmtuners.com/wiki/index.php/NewCategory - replace the term "NewCategory" with the name of the new category. Try not to use spaces. Edit the page and add the following text: "All articles and tutorials related to XXXX Category", replacing the XXXX Category with the new category information.
If the new category is actually going to be a sub-category you'll want to add the parent category link to the bottom of the page as described in the instructions for "Adding Your New Article to a Category", above. This will help preserve the proper category tree linking system.
BBCodes and emoticons
You can make use of BBCode Syntax and emoticons to make up the text. Click here for a BBCode syntax overview.
Word formatting
- Emphasize
''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''
Emphasize, strongly, very strongly
- HTML tags you can use
Typewriter font for technical terms
<tt>monospace text</tt>
monospace text
Small text
<small>small text</small>
small text
Strikethru text
<s>strike out deleted material</s>
strike out deleted material
Headings
same as headlines/chapters/sections
First, second and third level headings
=New section=
==Subsection==
===Sub-subsection===
A first level heading is for example the "Word formatting" heading on this page.
The "Bullet lists" heading on this page is an example of a 2rd level heading.
The "Table of contents" box you see at the top of this page will appear automatically when you have used 4 or more headings.
First level headings are shown as x, 2rd level as x.x and so on.
Internal linking
[[DSMwiki Index]]
Becomes a link to the DSMwiki Index of this Wiki.
[[Information|Infos!]]
Becomes a link to the Information page but Infos! is written instead like this: Infos!
- Linking to a headline at a wiki page.
You can link to a headline on another wiki page.
[[http://www.ipbwiki.com/IpbWiki_Features#Parses_BBCode]]
Becomes at link to the headline "Parses BBCode" at the Features page like this: IpbWiki_Features#Parses_BBCode
You can also replace the text written on the final page.
[[IpbWiki_Features#Parses_BBCode|Check out the BBCode]]
Becomes: Check out the BBCode
External linking
Remember to start with "http://".
- Bare URL
http://www.ipbwiki.com/
Becomes http://www.ipbwiki.com/
- Named link
[http://www.ipbwiki.com/ IpbWiki: connecting Invision Power Board with MediaWiki...]
Becomes IpbWiki: connecting Invision Power Board with MediaWiki...
Lists
Bullet lists
You can make bullet lists with "*".
* First level list object
** Second level list object
*** Third level list object
* Another first level list object
- First level list object
- Another first level list object
Numbered lists
You can make numbered lists with "#".
# First level list object
## Second level list object
### Third level list object
# Another first level list object
- First level list object
- Second level list object
- Third level list object
- Another first level list object
Mixed lists
You can even make mixed lists like this.
* You can even do mixed lists
*# and nest them
*#* like this
- You can even do mixed lists
- and nest them
Definition lists
;item
: the item's definition
- item
- the item's definition
Images
You can insert images using the syntax:
[[Image:filename|options|caption text]]
The last item added will always be considered the caption text.
Image without alt-text
[[Image:mediawiki.png]]
Image:Mediawiki.png
Image with alt-text
You add "|caption text" after the image link. This is the text most browsers will show when you hover over the image with the mouse.
[[Image:mediawiki.png|The MediaWiki logo]]
Image:Mediawiki.png
Image options
- thumbnail, thumb
- Generates an automatically resized thumbnail image (either reduced or enlarged).
- Caption text is displayed directly underneath. An "enlarge"-icon is added.
- If you do not specify where the image should be place it will be places to the right.
- Example to the right (in this example the image is enlarged because it is small):
[[Image:mediawiki.png|thumb|The MediaWiki logo]]
- right
- Makes the image right-aligned.
- left
- Same as above, but left aligned.
- center
- Same as above, but centered.
- none
- The image will be rendered inline, even if the thumbnail-option is set.
- frame
- The image will have a frame, regardless of whether it is a thumb, and the caption text will be included as a visible caption.
- Example to the right:
- sizepx
- Renders a version of the image that's [size] pixels wide (e.g. '150px').
- Height is computed to keep the aspect ratio (i.e. the shape of the image).
- This allows both size reduction and enlargement.
- Combining options
- You can combine the options as you like. Example (as you see below resizing is often not very good):
[[Image:mediawiki.png|50px|left|none|The MediaWiki logo]]
[[Image:mediawiki.png|none|frame|The MediaWiki logo]]
Tables
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3"
| 1 || 2
|-
| 3 || 4
|-
| 5 || 6
|}
See also WikiMedia table guide
Additional hints
You can avoid that the wiki system proccessing the text (to avoid unwanted formatting) by putting <nowiki></nowiki> around the text you want to parse directly.
Getting help
If you need help to work with the wiki then post a message in the Wiki Help Forum and we'll help you out... ;)
