Help:Editing

Start by clicking Edit

It's always among the top right buttons on an article.

Use the Editor

1. is the formatting bar, where you can edit text styles like in Word as well as access tools like upload images (the "Drop files" section) and "Find and Replace" at the far right
2. is the actual writing area, where you write and edit content
3. is the summary, where you must always write what changes you made to the page so editors can easily identify changes
4. are the action buttons -- "Save page" publishes the page, while "Show preview" shows you what it will look like but does not publish the page.
5. is the list of templates used in the article -- you can use this list to quickly access templates and modules used in an article and learn how they work

How to Edit

Simply write anything on the writing area (2), like you would on Word. Highlight anything and you can use the buttons (1) to format it, like you would on Word.

To add sections like the "How to Edit" one above, simply add == before and after a title e.g. ==How to Edit==

Use two equals == for big sections, and three equals === for smaller sections, and four equals ==== for small sections that don't need a separating line underneath.

Links

[[Pagename]] is how you do links e.g. if you write [[Food]], you will link to the Food article.

When you want to save the page, press the Preview button (4) to see what it looks like without saving, them press the Save Changes button (4) to save the edits and publish the page publicly.

Images

[[File:FILENAME|size|position]] is the code to add images.

• Filename is the file name of any image found in the File List
• Size means the size you want in pixels, e.g. 30px
• Position is simply if you want it to be left, right, or center of the page.

So if you write [[File:Road_icon.png|30px|center]], you will put an image of the road measuring 30 pixels in the center of the page like so:

Done

And that's pretty much it. You can now edit any wiki page.

For a list of all formatting options available, so you can be mroe creative and make the wiki prettier, check out MediaWiki's article on formatting.