Help:Editing

Helpful Wiki Syntax

• '''fat''' lets appear the word fat like this: fat
• ''italic'' lets appear the word italic like this: italic

•   (include the semicolon) represents a space that will not break over two lines; useful if you type Ikonta A to stop the A appearing on a new line of its own.

Lists

• simple list: A simple list is a text block with several lines, each with an emphatic marker at the start; what Word calls a 'bullet list'. simply type each line beginning with an asterisk symbol (*) followed by a space before the text:

* Cameras
* Lenses
* Tripods

gives this:

• Cameras
• Lenses
• Tripods

You can use multi-level lists. The second level entries just have two asterisks:

* Cameras
** Viewfinder cameras
** Rangefinder cameras
** TLR cameras
** SLR cameras
* Lenses
** Standard lenses
** Wide-angle lenses
** Telephoto lenses

gives this:

• Cameras
  • Viewfinder cameras
  • Rangefinder cameras
  • TLR cameras
  • SLR cameras
• Lenses
  • Standard lenses
  • Wide-angle lenses
  • Telephoto lenses

If you use hash characters (#) instead of asterisks, you get a numbered list instead.

Linking

• LINK: A simple link looks like [http://www.address-so-and-so.com so and so] and appears as so and so

Better link to contents of camera-wiki first. External links are usually put at the end of a camera-wiki article.

• LINK inside camera-wiki: [[so and so]]
• LINK inside camera-wiki with synonym: [[so and so|soso]]

• You can link to a singular version of a page with a plural word by doing this [[lens]]es which renders like this lenses.
• If you'd like to link to a category, you can do something like this [[:Category:lens makers|lens makers]] which renders like this lens makers.

Pictures

The most important feature in a photographic wiki is the placement of pictures. This wiki has no special tags for images. Use

<div class="floatright"> image-address </div> for images on the right side of the browserwindow,

and

<div class="floatleft"> image-address </div> for images on the left side of the browserwindow

Camera_wiki:_Adding_images gives more advice on formatting pictures.

Chapters and text structure

• A chapter begins with a headline enclosed in two double equal signs (==)
• Further structuring of a camera-wiki article is possible by sub-headlines enclosed in two triple or quadruple equal signs (===, ====)

Contents

• it's always good to know the Camera-wiki quality standards
• If you want to stop the wiki from turning certain text into "wiki text", you can use the <nowiki></nowiki> tags. Anything between these tags shouldn't be altered by the wiki software.
• If you know that the topic of your article needs much more information than you actually are able to write into it, then give it the special categorization {{stub}}