Help:Editing

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

• 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 (===, ====)

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. It has a redesigned top housing.

(and at the bottom)

Notes

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}}