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This gives a quick guide to editing on the wiki.

Text

You can use the buttons just above the edit box - play with them and see!

  • Italics - ''Text''
  • Bold - '''Text'''
  • A simple internal link - [[Pagename]] (no http or anything)
  • An internal link (piped) - [[Pagename|words to link to that page]]
  • An external link - [URL words to link] (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 ~~~~
  • A header, use ==Header== for big headers, ===Header=== for smaller ones.

Images

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[[Image:Example.gif|thumb|right|Caption]]
[[Image:Example.gif|250px|right|Caption]]
  • Recommended formats: SVG, PNG, GIF (Black & white or simple diagrams only), JPG (colour pictures).
  • 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 | 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|Caption]]