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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.

What's Wikipedia?

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, 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}}

To get your image to float left or right, wrap the

{{#icon}} in a div with the appropriate class like so:

<div class="floatright">{{#icon}}</div> Although I modified the Icon extension to be able to specify a class in the icon tag itself, the extension now reveals some weaknesses that make me want to change to the LinkedImage extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedImage

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