Editing a Wiki Page

Open for Edit

The currently displayed Wiki page can be opened for editing by selecting the Edit button. In most cases there are a couple of these to be found on any given Wiki page. By selecting the one at the top of the page, the source code of the whole page is opened for editing. The remaining buttons are for editing sections of the page only which is sufficient in most cases.

Open for Editing

Help!

Once the page is open for editing your first action should be to click the Help button at the bottom of the page!

Syntax help

The markup language used on a Wiki page is most commonly called Wiki Syntax. It uses common characters in uncommon ways (or character combinations that are not normally used together) and provides them with a special meaning. Some of the character combinations only work at the beginning of a line, while others can be inserted anywhere in the text and are active until they are turned off.

Adding an image

Images may be attached to a Wiki page directly, rather than adding them to an image gallery. That way they remain in the local context of the page and cannot be referenced from other pages.
Which is good!

• First, open the page for editing by clicking on the Edit button.
• Then place the cursor at the position in the edit field where you want the image to appear. This should preferably be an empty line.
• Now go to the "Upload File" section at the bottom of the page and select a file from your local harddisk using Durchsuchen .
• Finally, enter a comment and select Attach.

Upload an image

A new line of code is automatically added to the edit field at the cursor position.

Our example would result in {file name="myimage.jpg" page="TestWikiPage" desc="A test image"}

In order for the image to be displayed you have to manually add: image=1

i.e. {file name="myimage.jpg" page="TestWikiPage" desc="A test image" image=1}

Preview, Discard or Save your work

Once all changes have been made, such as text formatting, uploading of images, adding new content, you have four options:

1. Preview changes

   By selecting the Preview button you can assess the quality of your work without yet committing it to memory.

   

   Preview changes to a page

2. Minor change

   The "Minor Change" button should be used in cases where rather irrelevant changes have been made, e.g. the formatting is altered but the content stays the same. Those who have subscribed to the page will not be notified on minor changes.

   

   Minor changes only - don't notify subscribers

3. Save

   In all other cases use Save to commit your changes to memory. Those who have subscribed to the page will be notified by e-mail.

   

   Save changes

4. Cancel Edit

   In case you changed your mind, use "Cancel Edit". The former content of the page will be restored and no harm is done.

   

   Exit without saving

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