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This gives a quick guide to editing on the wiki.  Click on the edit tab to see the markup language underneath, then go back before you change anything! 
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*[[Basic editing]]
 
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*[[Help:Creating an account]] describes the process used to [http://pluto.potsdam.edu/wikichem/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Main_Page create an account].
== Text ==
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*[[Help:Protocols]] - house style, behavioral norms
You can use the buttons just above the edit box - play with them and see!  The function is then followed by a dash, then it shows what to type to generate that function.
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*[[Tutorial:Tutorial|Tutorial]]
 
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*[[WikiChem:Demonstration|Demonstration pages]] (for practice}
*''Italics'' - <nowiki>''Text''</nowiki>
 
*'''Bold''' - <nowiki>'''Text'''</nowiki>
 
*A simple [[internal link]] - <nowiki>[[Pagename]]</nowiki> (no http or anything)
 
*An [[Organic chemistry|internal link]] (piped) - <nowiki>[[Pagename|words to link to that page]]</nowiki>
 
*An [http://en.wikipedia.org external link] - <nowiki>[URL words to link]</nowiki> (copy/paste the URL, then leave a space, and then type the words you want to appear on the link)
 
*To sign on a talk page <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>
 
*A header, use <nowiki>==Header==</nowiki> for big headers, <nowiki>===Header===</nowiki> for smaller ones.
 
 
 
==Images==
 
[[Image:Example.gif|thumb|right|<nowiki>[[Image:Example.gif|thumb|right|Caption]]</nowiki>]]
 
[[Image:Example.gif|250px|right|<nowiki>[[Image:Example.gif|250px|right|Caption]]</nowiki>]]
 
 
 
*Recommended formats: SVG, PNG, GIF (Black & white or simple diagrams only), JPG (colour pictures).
 
*For structure drawing, we recommend the ACS settings in ChemDraw, IsisDraw or Chemsketch.  Save the file as a TIFF, then convert that to PNG or GIF.  Unfortunately the structures on this server don't seem to scale well, but hopefully we can resolve that problem in time.
 
*To upload a picture, follow the "upload file" link on the left, browse till you find your picture, then enter it.  Be sure to add copyright & source!
 
*To place an image in the text, put the image name in square brackets, then put in the formatting information separated by "pipes" (the <nowiki>|</nowiki> symbol), ''viz.'':
 
:*Size - 50px (pixels) for a small icon, to about 600px for a page-wide reaction scheme.
 
:*Thumbnail - if you want this type in thumb in place of (or as well as) the size.
 
:*Position - put in left, center or right
 
:*Caption - type in the text you want to appear under the thumbnail.  Simple images (not thumbnails) can't easily have captions.
 
*Note that in wikis (unlike regular HTML), you can't (easily) use an image as a hyperlink to anything other than the image file.
 
[[Image:Example.gif|400px|thumb|center|<nowiki>[[Image:Example.gif|400px|thumb|center|Caption]]</nowiki>]]
 
 
 
For more help see on Wikipedia the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial picture tutorial], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images images page] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax image syntax page].
 
 
 
More to follow.....
 
  
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==See also==
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[[Help:Useful chemistry sites]]
 
[[Category:Help pages]]
 
[[Category:Help pages]]

Latest revision as of 23:51, 25 May 2011

See also

Help:Useful chemistry sites