Difference between revisions of "Help:Contents"

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==Hyperlinks==
 
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===Link to an external page===
 
To add a hyperlink to a page external to EEBedia, just type in the URL (including the initial http://):<pre>For example, here is a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.</pre>For example, here is a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.
 
To add a hyperlink to a page external to EEBedia, just type in the URL (including the initial http://):<pre>For example, here is a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.</pre>For example, here is a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.
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===Link to an external page but use a shorter name===
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Enclose the URL in square brackets and, after a space, type in the short name you wish to use:<pre>For example, here is a link to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia].</pre>For example, here is a link to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia].
  
 
==Uploading files (e.g. images)==
 
==Uploading files (e.g. images)==

Revision as of 20:09, 10 December 2006

EEBedia uses the same software that runs [Wikipedia], so that means it is easy to contribute information. Here are some basic instructions, but much a more in depth tutorial is available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents.

Hyperlinks

Link to an external page

To add a hyperlink to a page external to EEBedia, just type in the URL (including the initial http://):
For example, here is a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.
For example, here is a link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.

Link to an external page but use a shorter name

Enclose the URL in square brackets and, after a space, type in the short name you wish to use:
For example, here is a link to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia].
For example, here is a link to Wikipedia.

Uploading files (e.g. images)

Slime mold at Goodwin Conservation Center
Pediastrum duplex.
You can upload an image file at Special:Upload. Please refrain from uploading an image that is excessively large. If you click the image of Pediastrum duplex at right, you are shown its actual size, which is about 60 KB. This is a reasonable size. The image of slime mold fruiting bodies at left is about as large as an image on EEBedia should be (150 KB). Images larger than this must be reduced in size to fit on a typical computer screen, so such files take up more space on the server than is needed. Below is the wiki text that was used to create the two images shown here. Note that including the keyword thumb causes the photo to be shown as a thumbnail (reduced size) image. The larger image can be obtained by clicking on the thumbnail. You can use the keywords left, right, or center to position the image horizontally on the page. Finally, the last entry in the image tag is the caption text. See the extended image syntax page for more information about inserting images in to wiki pages.
[[Image:Pediastrum_duplex.jpg|thumb|right|''Pediastrum duplex'']]
[[Image:Slime_mold_2777.jpg|thumb|left|Slime mold at Goodwin Conservation Center]]