Help:Editing - ParabolaWiki

# Help:Editing

Add information if it helps or clarifies.

Don't worry too much about formatting, Admins will look over and clean up the work.

## You are an editor

- The wiki is a collaborative effort
- If you see an error on a page, or have an idea on how to improve it, sign in and make the change
- If you aren't sure, then make a comment on the "discussion" tab for the page and sign it.
  - You can sign something by making 4 ~ in a row, or pressing the signature button in the edit toolbar (2nd from the right).
  - The result looks like this: --Encyclomundi 09:41, 22 June 2011 (PDT)

## Creating pages

Use the i18n template on every page

You can use the LibreOffice extension wiki-publisher to create documents in WYSIWYG and then export them directly to this wiki in Wiki Markup. This is the easiest way to create a new page.

The editing tool bar also has the most frequently used edits, for your convenience. The editing tool bar headline button starts a level two heading because the title is level one, and everything on the page is its subheading; so please don't use level one headings. The Table of Contents is automatically created after making three headings.

To make a note, tip or warning, use the curly braces like this `{{Tip|This is how we make a tip.}}`. It will appear on its own line.

## To create a table easily

- Create a spreadsheet in Gnumeric or LibreOffice

- Copy and Paste to this tool

- Paste result into Wiki

## i18n

For assistance please see the Help Page

## Importing from Archwiki

You can link to an article on Archwiki thus: [[a:Prosody]] is the equivalent of [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Prosody] and will display as a:Prosody

Step by Step:

- Sign in to Parabola wiki
- Go to the article you want to copy on Archlinux wiki
- Go to source tab
- Copy content
- On Parabola wiki type the SAME article title in the search box, and GO
- Choose to CREATE PAGE
- At top of edit box type: {{i18n:TITLE OF THE ARTICLE}}
- Paste in content from Archlinux wiki
- CAREFULLY read the page and REMOVE any nonfree references
- Add an acknowledgement at the end:

    ==Acknowledgement==
    {{Acknowledgement}}

- Repeat these same steps to add the page in other languages if available. Always use the ENGLISH title of the article in the i18n template

## Source Code

We use the Geshi extension which allows direct rendering. Click on the link for supported languages and formats.

use <pre> To display a command line of code </pre>

     To display a command line of code

Or start the line with a space. To type something like the name of a command in monospace, you can use teletype tags (<tt></tt>), and to type some code in a paragraph, you can use code tags. To show a command, you can type {{cli|#}} to look like this:

    $ locate -i srcbuild

## Lists

- Bullets—start the lines with an asterisk
  - 2nd level bullets get two asterisks
    - 3rd level get three, and so on.

### Numbered Lists

1. Ordered lists are indented and start with the pound/number symbol.
   - A mix would be proceeded by the parent sign (#*).

- Another example
  1. One, two
  2. (*#)

## See Also

More markup is available at MediaWiki, or you can copy the markup you desire from other pages on this wiki.

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- Wiki