Wiki How-To

So, you've got some content you want to add - typically you'd want to add a new page, and perhaps include some images, text, and maybe some source code or other files.

To start with, you need to create a page. To do that, find the page you want your page linked from, and click the "edit" button on it. You can add a link to that page by typing the name of the new page you want, and then surrounding the name with two parentheses.

Wiki How-To

If you edit this page, you can see how the link above points to the same page.

That shoud give you, once you save the editing changes, your new page name on the page, with a linked question mark next to it. If you click on the question mark, you'll get a blank template for your new page that you can start to edit.

In the editor window, you'll see on the left something called "Quicktags". Clicking on that brings up a bunch of little icons you can use to add links, text emphasis, and other such things.

You can experiment with those quicklinks, but its simple to make text bold, italic, underlined, and a bunch of other things. You can experiment in the Sandbox if you want, which doesn't keep history.

Now, if you want to add an image to your new page, you would first need to add the image to an image gallery. If you right-click on Image Galleries to the right, and select "Open Link in New Window", you can upload an image to one of the image galleries, and then link to it from your page.

So, if you're looking at the Image Gallery page now, you can click on one of the gallery links, like "Misc Bioloid Stuff" to bring up that gallery. Assuming you have the image on your hard drive, you can click on the "upload image" button (should be near the top of the page). This will allow you to name the image, provide an optional description, and select the file that you want to upload. Once it has uploaded, you can click on it to be able to see it, and at the bottom of the page you'll see something that looks like this:



We're interested in the last line from that, which looks like this:



Copy that text (from your image) to the clipboard (including the squiggly brackets), switch back to your page editing window, and paste the text where you want the image to go. Once again, if you edit this page, you can see what the text looks like for an image reference. There's also a quicktag that allows you to specify more attributes for the image, including width, height, and a link to make it clickable.

You can upload files to a File Gallery in much the same way, and provide a reference to them on the page, like this:

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If you right click on the Filename link, you can copy the link location to the clipboard, and then paste it into your page editor.

You can add sub-pages by just writing the title of the page, and surrounding it with double-parentheses. Please try and prefix your page names with something useful, since the page names are global. Some page names are already taken. All the pages about MicroRaptor, for instant, start with the word "MicroRaptor".