Help:Wiki editor's reference

Use this page store references and tutorials for editing / developing pages and templates.

Templates and Pages

 * Transclusion, the key to it all
 * Help:Templates, simple example to get started
 * Help:Template, covers parameters, substitution, parsing
 * Template Substitution, how it works, when you should use it, (more importantly) when you should not use it.
 * Advanced Templates, parameter passing
 * Tables
 * The basics: Tables
 * Comprehensive: WikiTable Markup Guide
 * All about Namespaces
 * Math Formulas
 * Images, How to size and frame images
 * Excel to Wiki Table Converter

Parameters, Parsing

 * Magic Words
 * Parser Functions, how to process parameters passed to templates

HTML

 * HTML Element, attributes, such as, , , and [b], [i]
 * HTML scripting
 * Cascaded Style Sheets, reference doc (Standard from W3C) for many HTML items
 * XML and HTML Character References
 * Want to know how to generate a non-break space, &#x00B1; &lt; &gt; &lambda; and about 252 more? Use this reference.

Color
MediaWiki understands color names as well as the hex codes. For example, you can use "WhiteSmoke" instead of " #F5F5F5 ". It is strongly suggested to only use colors as defined in the reference below as they are guaranteed to be supported by all browsers. Web-safe colors are even better.
 * Colors for web pages

Special Pages
Special Page Help

Special:Allpages
The Special:Allpages works by displaying all categories starting with a character or phrase.
 * will display all categories starting with Main Page and go to the end
 * will display all categories starting with V and go to the end
 * will display all categories starting with V and go to the end

Portals

 * Guidelines on Portal Content

Portal Listings

 * Portal Directory
 * Portal list by category
 * Featured Portals, highly rated

Main Page Candidates

 * Business and economics
 * Mathematics
 * Architecture