Help:Editing

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Helpful wiki markup

  • '''bold''' (three single quotation marks before and after) adds boldface: bold
  • ''italic'' (two single quotation marks before and after) italicizes: italic
  •   (of which the semicolon is a part) creates a non-breaking space, one that will not break over two lines; useful if (for example) you don't want the A to be separated from the Ikonta in Ikonta A.

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

A simple link to a page outside camera-wiki.org (an external link) is created by [http://www.address-so-and-so.com Title_of_page] and appears as Title_of_page. Note the format: URL, space, title; do not use the pipe | character.

Within the main text of an article, it is better to link to other material within camera-wiki.org. (External links are usually put at the end of an article, whether in a footnote or in a list.)

A link inside camera-wiki.org showing the title of the article linked to: [[Article]].

A link inside camera-wiki.org showing something other than the title of the article linked to: [[Article|other text]].

You can link from a longer (typically plural) word to an article titled with part of this word by adding the suffix after the closing brackets: [[lens]]es renders lenses.

If you'd like to link to a category, you can do so by prefixing "Category" with a colon: [[:Category:lens makers|lens makers]] renders lens makers.

Pictures

We strongly encourage use of Camera-wiki.org's Flickr photo template. This is inserted into the text by clicking the rightmost button on the toolbar above the edit window (its icon resembles a photograph). For images from the Camera-wiki.org photo pool please be sure the "image source" URL includes "/in/pool-camerawiki" at the end.

The URL of Flickr .jpg image files encodes the size they display at, using the last two characters before the .jpg file suffix. For a thumbnail sized image, the format would be http://farmX.static.flickr.com/123StringOfLettersAndNumbers_t.jpg (notice the final "t". For a medium-sized image, the character changes to "m": http://farmX.static.flickr.com/123StringOfLettersAndNumbers_m.jpg. For a large image, (500 pixels max.) omit the underscore & letter: http://farmX.static.flickr.com/123StringOfLettersAndNumbers.jpg.

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 (===, ====)


Notes

You can include footnotes in your text. These are particularly handy for acknowledging the sources of your information, wthout interrupting the flow of your article. Footnotes can also be used as an alternative to parentheses for comments aside from the main theme of the text. To use footnotes, you must include a section at the bottom, where you want the footnotes to appear:


==Notes==

<references />


You can vary the heading, what level of heading you use, and where this appears; but the references tag must be as shown.

The footnote text is entered at the point in the text from which you want to reference it. In this example, the footnote consists of an internal link (as above) to the article on McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Collectable Cameras:

The second rangefinder model of the Agifold was introduced in 1955<ref>[[McKeown]], p. 41</ref>. It has a redesigned top housing.

The article text will show

The second rangefinder model of the Agifold was introduced in 1955[1]. It has a redesigned top housing.

(and at the bottom)

Notes

  1. McKeown, p. 41

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}}