MediaWiki Content Guide

   MediaWiki Content Guide

This page contains a MediaWiki Content Guide for help organising a Wiki.

Categories
Categories and sub-categories are used to organise content.

Creating a Category
Add a link to a category that doesn't yet exist. For instance, to create the "WikiMedia" category, you would edit an article and enter  . The Category:WikiMedia will automatically be created when the edit is saved.

Adding Content to a Category
tbd

Category Links
Create a link to a category page by using a colon before the word Category. Example:  Category:Media_Wiki  appears as Category:Media_Wiki.

Sub-Categories
Add   onto the page that you would like to make into a subcategory.

To make the category Roses into a subcategory of the category called Flowers.
 * Step 1 - Go to the page called, and click edit this page.
 * Step 2 - Place the text   within the body of the   article, and save.
 * Finished! Roses is now a subcategory of Flowers, and will be visible on.

Category Contents
Only 200 entries are displayed on the screen for any given Category. To add a TOC (table of contents) input:
 *  CategoryTOC  - adds a complete TOC (Top, 0 - 9, A-Z)
 *  CatAZ  - adds a TOC without numbers, for categories with members that only start with letters.

Uncategorized
Use the  </tt> tag for everything that's not got a category.

Categories See Also

 * wikipedia.org Categorization — guide to categories used by Wikipedia.
 * wikipedia.org Subcategories — guide to subcategories used by Wikipedia.
 * wikipedia.org Template: Uncategorized
 * wikipedia.org Categorization FAQ
 * wikipedia.org Help: Category
 * askdrwiki.com Ask Dr Wiki — categories guide.

Templates
Templates are used to contain info which you want to display across multiple pages.

Creating a Template Page
Create a template page by adding Template: to the beginning of the namespace, i.e.  Template:Example </tt>.

Showing a Template Page
You can show the contents of a Template by inserting  </tt> tag into a page.

Advanced Templates
You can also insert variables into template pages, such as a User's name, etc. More info see links below.

Templates See Also

 * meta.wikimedia.org Help: Quick Guide to Templates — introduction to templates.
 * meta.wikimedia.org Help: Template — good overview to using templates.
 * meta.wikimedia.org Help: Advanced Templates — doing really scary things with templates.
 * comcast.net MediaWiki Templates — good guide includes setting up template fields.