(dvd)Wiki help
For the most part, you should just be able to type what you want and not have to think too much about the formatting. If you want to start a new paragraph, just leave an extra blank line between it and the preceeding one.
But if you do want to get a bit crazy and mix things up a bit with some links or a heading or 2, then the following should hopefully explain how to add them.
Headings
Headings can by done by putting on a line by itself the following.
== Heading ==
For smaller subheadings etc...use either "===" or "===="
Lists
A list of items can be created by adding an asterix "*" at the start of the line.
* Apples
* Pears
* Bananas
- Apples
- Pears
- Bananas
You can nest several levels of lists by putting the appropriate number of asterixes to indicate what level the list item is at.
* First level
** Second level
*** Third level
- First level
- Second level
- Third level
- Second level
If you want to have an ordered list, use a hash "#" instead of the asterix.
# Apples
# Pears
# Bananas
- Apples
- Pears
- Bananas
You can have a mixture of ordered and unordered lists by putting more than one # or * on each line.
Links
Links to other pages in the wiki will be created automatically when you include the title in your text. So if you have a page called "apples" and you are talking about apples, it will create a link to it whenever you type "apples".
To link to a page outside of the wiki enclose the URL inside square brackets. ie [http://www.ifis.org.uk/]. To give the link an appropriate piece of text for the link, put the title inside the square brackets after the URL like so [http://www.ifis.org.uk/ IFIS].
If you want to force a word or phrase to link to it's page in the wiki, enclose it in two pairs of square brackets, [[Apples]]. You can change the text used in the link by putting the new title after the page name and a pipe (|) character, [[Apples|Pears]]
You can link to an author in the library by putting their name inside [[ ]]. For example [[Charles Stross]] would appear like Charles Stross. You can again change the text of the link by putting a | and then the text you want, which is useful if you want to refer to the author by their first or last name only. This is also possible for members of the society, but instead of putting [[author:Name]] you can put [[person:Name]].
Other formatting
Four or more dashes indicates that a horizontal line should be drawn
If there is anything other types of formatting that are needed, contact the webmaster with your suggestion.
