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Commands for editing

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

• Almost EVERYTHING is case sensitive

Links

Internal Link - [[page name]] Looks like this: page name

External link - [http://www.dsc.com] Looks like this: [1]

Also, If you just type the URL, the wiki will automatically make it in to a link: http://www.dsc.com

Internal/external Link (with different text) – [[page name text]] Looks like this text

or [http://www.dsc.com DSC Homepage] Looks like this: DSC Homepage

*Note: only use the pipe seperator for internal links

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

• No text may precede this

You can also redirect or link to a section of a page like this: #REDIRECT [[pagename#sectionname]]

or [[Help#Images|Images]] Which will look like this: Images

Images

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

will display:

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:

CAPTION

[[image:logo.jpg|300px|thumb|right|CAPTION]] which will display:

• 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 wide, 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

All parameters are automatically detected by the wiki and do not have to be in a specific order.

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…

Section

subsection

sub-subsection

and so on

Tables

Tables are slightly more complicated so if you plan on creating tables you may want to visit the MediaWiki help on tables