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What's Wikipedia?{{PD Help Page}}# http==Reading==* [[Help://wikipedia.org - the largest encyclopedia in the world. Introduction at httpNavigation|Navigation]]* [[Help://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AboutSearching|Searching]]# * [[wpHelp:Wikipedia:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_WikipediaTracking changes|Ten things you may not know about WikipediaTracking changes]]# * [[wp:WikipediaHelp:Ten_things_you_may_not_know_about_images_on_WikipediaWatchlist|Ten things you may not know about images on WikipediaWatchlist]]
== Using External Editors ==You can even use tools like OpenOffice or Eclipse to edit this wiki.* [[Help:Special pages|Special pages]]=== Editing from OpenOffice ===http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher Sun has a new extension to * [[OpenOfficeHelp:External searches|External searches]] that allows you to write wiki articles from right in your word processor.
To get your image * [[Help:Sysops and permissions|Sysops and permissions]] The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to float left or right, wrap theall wiki users. * [[Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protecting and unprotecting pages]]* [[Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting|Sysop deleting and undeleting]]* [[Help:Patrolled edits|Patrolled edits]]* [[Help:Blocking users|Blocking users]]* [[Help:Range blocks|Range IP blocks]]<nowiki>{{#icon}}</nowiki> in a div with the appropriate class like so* [[Help:Assigning permissions|Assigning permissions]] <nowiki><div class="floatright">{{#iconLanguages|Help:Contents}}</div></nowiki> 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[[Category://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ExtensionHelp| ]]__NOTOC__[[Category:LinkedImageImported help]]
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== Howto Information Editing==Adding or editing articles is very easy. There is * [[Help:Editing pages|Editing pages]]* [[Help:Starting a new page|Starting a large volume of "help" information available at the main wikipedia site, so that effort is not reproduced here. new page]]# See the * [[wp:Help:ContentFormatting|Help Table of ContentsFormatting]]# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/* [[Help:Editing Links|Links]]# * [http[Help://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Editor_handbook See the Editor's HandbookUser page|User pages]]# * [http[Help://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet The CheatsheetTalk pages|Talk pages]] (which includes links to the print cheatsheets)# * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext What HTML is allowedSignatures|Signatures]]?
=== Images Advanced editing===<nowiki>* [[ImageHelp:foo.jpgImages|Images]]</nowiki> produces an image You must first upload the image. You can not embed external images, with the notable exception that you CAN use 1.5 million images available in the commons project.<nowiki>* [[MediaHelp:foo.pdfTables|Tables]]</nowiki> would produce * [[Help:Categories|Categories]]* [[Help:Subpages|Subpages]]* [[Help:Managing files|Managing files]]* [[Help:Moving a link to page|Moving (renaming) a pdf document, sopage]]<nowiki>* [[MediaHelp:Ejbdesignpatterns.pdfRedirects|Redirects]]</nowiki> produces * [[Help:Deleting a link to http://freephile.com/wiki/images/6/6d/Ejbdesignpatterns.pdfpage|Deleting a page]]* [[mw:Help:ImagesProtected pages|Protected pages]]
* [[Help:Templates|Templates]]
* [[Help:Variables|Variables]]
* [[Help:Namespaces|Namespaces]]
== Advanced Editing and Customization =Personal customization===Please see * [[httpHelp://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interfacePreferences|Preferences]]and the * [http[Help://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's GuideSkins|Skins]] for usage and configuration help.
==Wiki administration= 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 [[mw:Help:Linked_images| many ways to make mediawiki link images]], but the most convenient that we settled on here is to use the [[mw:Extension:Icon|Icon extension]]The syntax (described at [[Icons]]) is<pre>{{#icon: Info.png|Info|24|floatright|Special:Help}}</pre>
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