Help:Editing a page

Before saving changes

Summary box

• Summarize changes in the summary box
• It doesn't need to be very elaborate but should tell people what happened
• Here are a few examples:

• "fix out of date link"
• "fix typo"
• "split content into 2 articles"
• "add procedure to check SELinux"

Summary box location

Editing a page

Text formatting

Mediawiki can easily format text the way you want, here are a few examples:

• Bold
• Italic
• Header
• Table

You can check the toolbar for more details

Please refer to the following link for more information:

Mediawiki formatting text

Adding images

List of supported image extensions: 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg'

The easiest way to add an image to a page is through a link

• Add the link the page

[[Image:My_new_image.png|Pretty name for image]]

• Format image (image customization is quite extensive see Mediawiki for more details)
• Save page (add comment in summary)
• Click the image link
• Upload image to the wiki

Adding files

List of supported file extensions: 'ppt', 'pdf', 'xls', 'xlsx', 'doc', 'docx', 'odt', 'odc', 'odp', 'odg', 'zip'

The easiest way to add a file to a page is through a link

• Add the link the page

[[Media:My_new_file.pdf|Relevant file title]]

• Save page (add comment in summary)
• Click the empty link
• Upload file to the wiki

Updating images or files

• Go to file page

• Add file real name to URL
• Search file name in 'Special pages'->'File list'

• Update file

Add a table

• Tables can help organize information for quick reference

Example:

Main page

For more info see: Mediawiki tables

Add category

• Categories are use to regroup articles together to quick reference

Example:

Category:Help

For more info see: Mediawiki categories