MonkeyWiki: Editing Tips

When you are editing a page, you very largely simply type what it is you want to say, just like you would into any text editor.

The only thing you really need to know is that if you write a PhraseLikeThis, it will be treated as an Internal Link, i.e. a link to a page of that name within this wiki. This word formation is referred to as a Wiki Name.

Such links to pages which do not yet exist will appear with a trailing question mark.

To create a new page, simply make mention of the Wiki Name you choose for it in the page you are currently editing, save that page, and then click the resulting link with the question mark. This will take you to the edit screen where you can enter your new page's contents. (This may sound like a roundabout method, but the idea is to encourage the creation only of pages that are linked to from other pages.)

General tips

If you enter HTML tags they won't work, but will be converted to displayable text, for example <h1>This is not a heading!</h1>. (If you don't know HTML, you would never even notice this effect.)

Pages are not locked during editing, so if you pause for a long time on the edit screen you may overwrite somebody else's changes when you finally do a save. (Conversely, if you suspect that this has happened to you, and you have lost a truly inspired edit, please email the Wiki Master, who can send you a backup copy from which you can cut and paste your contribution again.)

The place to practise editing is the Sand Box. It is a page purely for this purpose, so whatever you do there it won't matter!

Text Formatting

There follows a list of text formatting commands that you can use if you like. None of it is essential, but it really is quite easy:

Images

You can place an image on a page by hotlinking: i.e. providing a reference to an image which lives elsewhere on the web. Please note that you should either own, or have permission to use, an image in this way. It is otherwise considered by some to amount to theft (of bandwidth).

To place your image, just type its URL. To be recognised as an image, it must have one of the following extensions: .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png. Thus:
would place the image (with default alignment and without text wrapping)

Optionally you can align an image left, centre or right using the | character (Shift \) to represent the margin notionally. So:
|www.example.com/image.jpg would place the image aligned left (with text wrapping)
|www.example.com/image.jpg| would place the image aligned centrally (without text wrapping)
www.example.com/image.jpg| would place the image aligned right (with text wrapping)

Editing Tips

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General tips

Text Formatting

Images