Help:Editing

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To edit something, click the "edit" link near the top of the page, or within a section. (You don't need to be logged in to edit, but your IP address will be logged if you're not.)

Type whatever text you'd like to add in the edit box, and use the buttons above the edit box to add styles, links, etc.

Editing Buttons

The buttons, in order from left to right, are:

  • Bold (Check out how bold this is!)
  • Italic (Ooh, it's all slanty!)
  • Internal Link (A link to a page on this wiki, like the main page.)
  • External Link (A link to another website, like the Media Socialist blog.)
  • Header (This makes big text and a line, like I did above this list.)
  • Embedded File (Use this to add a photo or something.)
  • File Link (Links to a file I guess. Not sure exactly.)
  • Mathematical Formula (Play with math, it seems.)
  • Your signature with timestamp (Looks like: --Griffin 21:17, 10 July 2008 (UTC))
  • Horizontal line (I'll put a horizontal line below.)

To use any of the buttons, either highlight the text you want to affect, and click the appropriate button, or hit the button first and fill in the appropriate info.

Understanding Wiki Code

You can use some HTML tags in here if you need to, but you should familiarize yourself with the wiki code. This will help you understand how the buttons work. I'll explain below, but you can also edit a previously created page, like this one, to see the code in action.

  • To make a list, like this one, simply put an asterisk (*) to the left of each line.
    • If you use ** next to a line, you get a sublist.
  • For bold, add three apostrophes to each side of a word. So '''bold''' = bold.
  • For italics, use 2 apostrophes on each side. ''italics'' = italics.
  • For links, use brackets:
    • Internal link: [[blog|Click here to read about blogs]] = Click here to read about blogs (Use "|" to separate the page name (blog) from the link text.)
    • External link: [http://mediasocialist.com Our website] = Our website (Simply use a space to separate the web address from the link text.)
  • For a "level 2" header, use == on either side of yout text. For "level 3," ===, and so on.
  • Horizontal line is "----."
  • The other ones you'll have to see for yourself.
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