Help:Wiki editor's reference

References for advanced users.

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
 * Excel to Wiki Table Converter
 * All about Namespaces
 * Math Formulas
 * Images, How to size and frame images

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
Design guidelines used to create the Main Page portal.


 * Guidelines on Portal Content

Wikipedia Portal Listings

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

Main Page Candidates
The Main Page was based on a mixture of these portals:
 * Business and economics
 * Mathematics
 * Architecture

Software
Special:Version - Installed MediaWiki software and extensions

Widgets
Google Widgets are available.
 * Google Spreadsheet - for embedding spreadsheets
 * Google Document - for embedding documents
 * Google Form - for embedding spreadsheet forms
 * Google Presentation - for embedding presentations

Refreshing the MediaWiki Page Cache
Sometimes, the MediaWiki engine may fail to rebuild a page. The result is that the change appears to have no effect, despite the user reloading the page from their browser. This is not a normal occurrence. Updating a Google widget, such as Google Document may result in this problem.

The user needs to force a cache purge. Append "?action=purge" to the URL of the page in question.