How to Wiki: Difference between revisions

Welcome to the EUSwiki! Thank you for your interest in helping contribute! There are a lot of ways to tackle a wiki, so on this page we've tried to sum up all best practices used on the EUSwiki. Syntax can be confusing, but stick with it. Copying and pasting code from articles that you like is how a great wiki can be built, there's no shame in that.<br>

'''''Google is your friend''''', there are better guides out there for specific tips you may be looking for. But here we've grouped tools that are already installed and ready for use. Mediawiki is the format that wikipedias are built on, including that in your search will help.<br>

If you need any help, please reach out to the [mailto:wiki.curator@mcgilleus.ca EUS Wiki Curator(s)]. Thank you for your contribution!

=== Signing Up For An Account ===

== Text Editing ==

You can format your text by using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, apostrophes or equal signs which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in ''italic'', you include it in two pairs of apostrophes like <code><nowiki>''this''</nowiki></code>.

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===Adding Colors===

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Mediawiki supports a host of vernacular terms to colorize content without needing to know the hexadecimal values. So, when using 'style', insert one of the names to the right instead of the actual color value. It saves the trouble of remembering those pesky alphanumeric values, and spreads consistency.

==Templates==

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This article is a stub. Please consider <span style="color: #66512c">[[How to Central|expanding it]]</span>.

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The code is need on many pages. It is therefore added to a new page on the wiki named <code>Template:Stub</code>. Then, once saved, the template can be called upon using double curly brackets around the name of the template, i.e. <strong><nowiki>{{Stub}}</nowiki></strong> . As long as the code is created in a document labeled 'Template:XXXXX', it can then be called upon again by '''<nowiki>{{XXXXX}}</nowiki>'''. <br>

===Good templates===

|{{In Progress}}

|Articles that are currently being developed.

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|[[Template:Button]]

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|[[Template:FinanceBar]]

|{{EmailIcon|1=faucet@mcgilleus.ca}}

|''1=emailaddress@gmail.com''<br>A button for the email address of the position/group

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== Categories ==

Generally the EUSwiki does not include the categories on the page themselves, as there's normally a disambiguation page; that is to say, we'd prefer people navigate to [[Policies]] instead of the category page. Thus, it is common practice to '''''hide the category'''''. This can be done by adding the power word <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code> ''inside the category''. It will then be hidden from all the pages.

: <nowiki><tabs></nowiki><br>

Nested Tabs are useful for having large amounts of information without overburdening the layout or flow of your article. <br>The syntax is essentially the same as above

<code>''<nowiki> <tab name="Open me!" collapsed> Contents </tob></nowiki>''</code>

==Widgets==

'''Widgets''' is a blanket term for easy to add HTML pages/elements. They avoid the security problems of raw HTML in editable wiki pages because the privilege to edit in the Widget namespace is managed. Most of the time you would be working with [https://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Widgets_Catalog pre-written widgets].<br>

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