What is wiki
Wiki explained,
Wiki is the Hawian word for quick. Have you ever visited a website after reading what it had to say and thought "yes, but you should have mentioned this aswell", Well a WIKI page gives you an oportunity to do this. At the top of every page and section it says edit in blue, click this and you have the ability to add text sound and pictures to the page. Generally editing someone elses edit is not considered good Wiki manners, unless you see something obvious like grammer or spelling, but generally you want to add to rather than take away from the Wiki. Formatting of webpages is done with HTML, basically this determines the size and position of text and images. with WIKI a dfferent method for formatting what follows are some of the more common ones.
Formatting Text
generally speaking after you click edit you can just type away, if you need to make something bold put three '''single quotes around it like this'''
and to break up sections add four ---- minus signs on their own, if you dont put a line of space between text it will run on continuously. So this sentance would follows directly after the full stop above even though I pressed return once.
But this wouldn't as I pressed return twice.
If you cant be arsed and just want something up there as a one off mail your contribution to me and I will put it up for you, Its best if you send it as plain text either in an email or as a text file. If you have photos to add reduce to 640X480 if you can and RENAME them to something more descriptive like Camper-interior-Westy-joker1.jpg dont use spaces or underscores, then just put the name of the file in the bit of the text file where you want the image to appear with a line of space above and below, preferably number the photos in the order you want them to appear.
Inserting an image on the WIKI
picture on the left was added by typing [[Image:Camper-interior-Westy-joker1.jpg|thumb|left]] I have uploaded a picture to the WIKI using the "upload file" link on the left hand side of every page (under the search box), given it a descriptive name i.e. Camper-interior-Westy-joker1.jpg (underscores and spaces dont work well) then referenced it in my wiki page. I have added the "|thumb|left" to position it on the page and make it a thumbnail, although this is optional. The vertical lines you see in this link are acheived by pressing SHIFT and \ (bottom left on your keyboard). The 2 square brackets are to show that you are referencing something on the WIKI itself rather than on the internet in general which is covered in the next section. .
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Making a link to another URL (webpage)
| http://vwpix.terlinden.com almost every brocher and manual
has been created in edit mode as
[http://vwpix.terlinden.com/index_en.htm | http://vwpix.terlinden.com almost every brocher and manual]
It seems best to leave a space before and after the | for the links to work properly, although you will end up with a | at the bgining of your link it seems necessary for it to work.
