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Howto Information

If you solve a problem, why not contribute your solution to this website as an article that others can easily find? Adding or editing articles is very easy.

Editing from OpenOffice

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher Sun has a new extension to OpenOffice that allows you to write wiki articles from right in your word processor.

Help using this website: See the main wikipedia

There is a volume of 'help' information available at the main wikipedia site, so that effort is not reproduced here. See the Help Table of Contents

Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.

Linked Images

By default, this system is configured to show an image and link to it's description page. Sometimes, you want to use an image to link to a page of your choice. There are many ways to make mediawiki link images, ( and mw:Wikipedia:10 things you did not know about images on Wikipedia) but the most convenient that we settled on here is to use the Icon extension The syntax (described at Icons) is

{{#icon: Info.png|Info|24|floatright|Special:Help}}

Also, [[Media:foo.pdf]] would produce a link to a pdf document, so [[Media:Ejbdesignpatterns.pdf]] produces a link to http://freephile.com/wiki/images/6/6d/Ejbdesignpatterns.pdf