Help:Contents
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.
Text
Just type text in the window that appears upon clicking the edit tab of any existing page. You can use the toolbar at the top of the window to learn how to italicize or bold words. Likewise, creating a new section can be done by surrounding the title with equals signs. Two equals signs flanking a title produce a subheading. For example, the heading of this subsection looks like this: ==Title==.
Much more information about organizing and formatting wiki pages is available at the Wikitext site.
Hyperlinks
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 the EEB home page: http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/ that is created by simply adding the text http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/ to the sentence.
Most of the time, you will not want long URLs to clutter up your page. It is easy to create a short hyperlink by enclosing the URL in square brackets and, after a space, typing in the name you wish to use: For example, here is a link to EEB that is done like this: [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/ EEB].
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link for information about creating more complicated hyperlinks.
Uploading files (e.g. images)
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]]
This page created by Paul Lewis
