How to Create a TargetWiki Page

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How to Create a TargetWiki Page

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1) Create a link first.

Example: Say you want to add a page for your favorite plane.

In the left menu click Categories -> Aircraft -> Edit
Enter the following into the page. 
[[Plane Foo]]

Preview before you Save.

This creates a link to the page "Plane Foo" on the "Aircraft" Page.

Click the link. You're now on the "Plane Foo" page, which is blank.
Click Edit.
Enter all the stuff you want and save.

In this way, you can create links to pages that are empty. Creating the link, creates the page.

This means that any time you create an internal link in any page, your creating an empty page with that link name.

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2) Create an independent page.

If you want to create a new page, that isn't initially linking from another page, there is a different method.

The easist option is to go the the Main Page, conveniently linked at the top of the left menu and enter the name of your new page in the box in the center of that page.

Alternatively, you can create new pages by using the address bar of your browser.

Go to any page in the wiki, and make sure you are logged in.
Go to the address bar in your web browser, e.g., http://wiki.targetware.net/index.php/Mod_Listings
The "Mod_listing" is the name of a wiki page.
Select that portion of the URL and delete it.
Then enter "pagename" of the page you wish to create.

For example: entering the following in your address bar: "http://wiki.targetware.net/index.php/PlaneFoo" would also create a PlaneFoo page. (Which I just did by putting that link in this page.)

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Formating Stuff in the Wiki Editor:

Here's an external link to the MediaWiki site that discusses these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

A lot of basic HTML code will work.

You can test formating and such in the Sandbox

Also, if you ever want to copy some formatting style you see on a wiki page, click Edit and examine the contents of the edit window.

Here are a few common ones: 

==Foo==  Equal signs create sections<br>
The number of = is what type of section:
==2== makes a New Section
===3=== makes a Subsection
====4==== makes a Sub-Subsection

These are automatically added to the Table of Contents which appears at
the top of pages with sections (by the default settings).

Lists can be created with stars/asterisks.  
The number of stars indicates the depth of the list/sublist:
* The Leftmost
** One step right
*** Two steps right

Numbered lists work the same way but you use the # (pound) symbol.

You don't need to use <p> to separate paragraphs, but <br> still works to break lines.

A colon (:) at the beginning indents a new line or paragraph.

When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it by adding
three tildes to add your user name:
: ~~~
or four for user name plus date/time:
: ~~~~
Five tildes gives the date/time alone:
: ~~~~~

Note: I've used "pre" html function to show you the characters to enter.
Otherwise, those characters would have functioned.  This command is useful
if you need to display code or things like that.

There are a lot of things you do with this. Go through the Wikimedia page linked above and check it out. I'm sure that once you get the hang of just a couple of things, you'll see how useful it can be.

bloo 15:22, 25 March 2006 (EST)

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