[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge wiki tips discussion

[Glen Jarvis]

Thanks -- Milo... Started my own page now...

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/User:Glenjarvis

Good tips :)

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:23 PM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:

> I stumble a lot on Mediawiki markup, yet humbly submit the following 3
> initial tips for folks using the Noisebridge wiki.
>
> 1) Make a user page for yourself on the Noisebridge page and watch it.
>  You don't have to register with the Noisebridge wiki to make your
> user page, but you will have to register to watch pages (make sure to
> confirm your email address if you want to do this.)
>
>  2a) You don't have to register to check out, or edit recent changes
> to the wiki:  https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Special:RecentChanges
>
> OR
>
> 2b) If you did register, adopt a second page to watch on a subject
> that interests you, and note that you are also taking care of it in
> the discussion page (I think we could use the discussion pages more
> efficiently in general).
>
> 3a) Play around with the following 3 basic Mediawiki markups and
> preview the page you are editing:
>
> = is for section or 'header' tagging =
> * is for lists *
> [[ is_for_links ]] but full URL's are automatically parsed so go ahead
> and use them or [[ link linkname ]].
>
> Tag markup in the first 2 cases above drills down with multiples of
> the tagging character relatively intuitively:
> = sections of wiki page =
>  == subsections of above   ==
>  === smaller subsections yet ===
> Links are different, but it's safe to use full URL's to start (anyone
> want to clarify this point?)
>
> OR
> 3b) Refer to: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples
>
>
> Now we can discuss and refine mediawiki best practices so we can add
> them into https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Help:Contents
>
> -rma
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