Help:Contents

Media Wiki

  Help:Wiki_Help_Resources : Contains a list of links to MediaWiki, the Help Guide.

Menus and Format

  MediaWiki:Sidebar : For editing the sidebar
  MediaWiki:Toolbox : The tool box

Miscellaneous

  Converts for MediaWiki
  paste cells from excel and click submit
  HTML::WikiConverter
  Tools/Editing tools

RegEx for Vim to preserve source code samples

 %s/^\(.*\)/  <nowiki>\1<\/nowiki>/

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Redirect - Redirects are used to forward users from one page name to another. They can be useful if a particular article is referred to by multiple names, or has alternative punctuation, capitalization or spellings.

 #REDIRECT [[pagename]]

Quick Formatting

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MediaWiki Tables

Our Wiki Stars

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Category Syntax

 [[Category:Help]]

Maintenance

 [Changelog] : All changes made in the last 90 days less "my changes"
 [New pages] : Every page in descending order by date, filter by username
 [File list] : All uploaded files descending order by date uploaded
 [User list] : List of all users A-Z

 [Undo versus Rollback] : Rollback works much quicker than undo and may only be 
 used in certain circumstances; most commonly to revert obvious vandalism.  

Templates

This is a way to include text from one page within text on another page. Say the same definition for something is use in multiple pages, and you want to keep all pages current by modification of only one place, you can use a normal Wiki page as a template. Just don't put any categories on the page being used as a template.

  {{:Pagename}}

So if Pagename is the definition or text you want to include in other pages, use the syntax above. For an example in this wiki see GoogleUpdate which is used in Processes in the Windows Task Manager.