Help:Editing/Advanced

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Writing and editing IntactiWiki articles can become an addiction. There is so much one can enhance, add and change. Because the IntactiWiki uses the same engine that is used by the Wikipedia (called: MediaWiki), the techniques are identical. In the MediaWiki, you will find each and everything you might probably want to know about writing and editing Wiki articles. But there's also a big overload of information there.

So this is the advanced section of the IntactiWiki manual. Here you will learn how to do things that are beyond the scope of a beginner. You'll find various advanced Wiki markup tricks listed into categories below. This subpage will probably never be complete.

Helpful templates

There are many templates available already which really help keeping the general article structure in shape. Templates are always used by writing the template name (without the prefix Template:) in double curly brackets.

Templates for section headlines

Some of these e.g. format frequently used section headlines, like:

== Publications ==    ->  use {{PUB}} instead.

== See also ==        ->  use {{SEEALSO}} instead.

== External links ==  ->  use {{LINKS}} instead.

== References ==
<references/>         ->  use {{REF}} instead.

Templates for references and quotations

These are explained in the IntactiWiki manual chapter References.

Highlighting

If you ever want to highlight text (which basically should be avoided), use the following:

<span style="background:#FFE87C">highlighted text here</span>

Other

More to come soon ...

See also