Formatting

From Judge Wiki

What is a "Wiki"?

A Wiki is basically a website that everyone can edit. For example if you see a mistake or want to update some information on one of the pages you just need to login and can immediately edit the page. Wiki pages are therefore useful when different people work on a topic. They are also useful when information is changing and there's no "central" person to do regular updates. And they are useful when one person has content and another is good at editing and the next one is good at formatting. This "Judge Wiki" is a place where we try to store all kinds of information. Have a look and feel free to add/update/modify the pages.

Making changes

When you see something you would like to change, just click on the EDIT button on top of the page. You then see the source code and can make your changes. With clicking on "Show Preview" (below the editing window) you can see what the page will look afterwards. Click on "Save Page" (also below the editing window) to finish your edit. Don't be afraid to make changes, you can't really destroy something. And if you did, it's just a click to restore the previous version.

Create a new page

Using Wikilinks

The Wiki makes it very easy to link wiki pages using a standard syntax. If you (or anyone else) create a link to an article that doesn't exist yet (by typing "[[Name of the new Page]]", the link will be coloured red, like this Name of the new Page.

Clicking a red link will take you to the edit page for the new article. Simply type your text, click save and the new page will be created.

Once the page has been created, the link will change from red to blue (purple for pages you've visited) indicating that the article now exists.

Usually this is the best way to create a new page, because it means that right from the start, the page will be linked from at least one other place on the wiki (and typically you will want to mesh it into other related pages later). If you are creating a new page without creating any link to it, you may need to ask yourself: Does this page really fit in with the topics already covered in the wiki? Also, how are you expecting visitors to find this page? Normally there is no reason to create a page without first creating a red link to it.

From the search page

If you search for a page that doesn't exist (using the search box and “Go” button on the left of the page) then you will be provided with a link to create the new page.

Using the URL

You can use the wiki's URL for creating a new page. The URL to an article of the wiki is usually something like this:

• http://www.example.net/index.php/ARTICLE    or
• http://www.example.net/wiki/ARTICLE

If you replace ARTICLE with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet. Clicking the "Edit" page tab at the top of the page will take you to the edit page for that article, where you can create the new page by typing your text, and clicking submit.

Basic Text Formatting

The Wiki editor works similar to text editors known from bulletin boards and forums and uses its own markup language, but you can also use many HTML tags.

=level 1=
==level 2==
===level 3===
====level 4====
=====level 5=====
======level 6======

<h1>level 1</h1>
<h2>level 2</h2>
<h3>level 3</h3>
<h4>level 4</h4>
<h5>level 5</h5>
<h6>level 6</h6>

* one
* two
* three
** three point one
** three point two

<ul>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<li>three</li>
<ul>
<li>three point one</li>
<li>three point two</li>
</ul>
</ul>

# one
# two
# three
## three point one
## three point two

<ol>
<li>one</li>
<li>two</li>
<li>three</li>
<ol>
<li>three point one</li>
<li>three point two</li>
</ol>
</ol>

 this way, all markups are '''ignored'''.

Wiki tables

{|

<table>

|-

<tr> (end row with </tr>)

|

<td> end cell with </td>

|}

</table>

The following table lacks borders and good spacing but shows the simplest wiki markup table structure.

{|
|Kevin
|France
|-
|Philipp
|Austria
|-
|Shindo-san
|Japan
|}

<table>
<tr>
<td>Kevin</td>
<td>France</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Philipp</td>
<td>Austria</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shindo-san</td>
<td>Japan</td>
</table>

Links (internal and external)

[[Main Page]]

[[Main Page|different text]]

[[#See also]]

[[Head_Judges_of_Pro_Tours_and_World_Championships#See_also]]

[[media:2009paris_format.pdf]]

[[media:2009paris_format.pdf|Seminar slides]] with different text

http://mediawiki.org

[http://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]

[http://mediawiki.org]

[mailto:info@example.org email me]

Signing your edits

If you include "~~~" in an edit it will automatically be replaced with your user name (and a link to your user page), if you type "~~~~" the date and time of your edit will also be included and it will look like this: chriga 15:47, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
ATTENTION! Please use this only at discussion pages.

See also

• To try out formatting options or Wiki tags, please use the Sandbox.
• Detailed information about the MediaWiki syntax can be found here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages