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Commands for editing

Here is a list of the most commonly used wiki commands:

Links

Internal Link - [[page name]]

• this is case sensitive

External link - [http:www.dsc.com]

Internal Link (with different text) – [[page name|text]] This will display ‘text’ while linking to ‘page name’.

Create a Redirect page - #REDIRECT [[pagename]]

• No text may precede this

You can also redirect to a section of a page like this: #REDIRECT [[pagename#sectionname]] *this also works for normal internal links

Images

To just embed an image – [[Image:picturename.JPG]]

There are other modifiers you may use as well to make the image smaller/bigger, make it a thumbnail, frame it, caption it, etc.

Most commonly used is to make the image a smaller thumbnail, right justified and add a caption:

[[image:picturename.JPG|300px|thumb|right|CAPTION]]

• Note all parameters are lower case.
• 300px is the standard thumbnail size for now

Other parameters include:

frame – put a frame around an image (thumb already does this; a caption will only be visible if frame or thumb are used)

300px – makes the image 300 pixels high, to scale (this can be used with any value, but the wiki will only shrink images, you cannot enlarge them).

right/left/center – changes the image justification

Sections

The page will automatically create a table of contents once there is more than three sections on the page.

To create a subsection - == section name ==

To create a Sub-subsection - ===section name=== and so on…