Help:Editing/Advanced
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.
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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.
We use templates even for rather simple content like the ones shown above, because we see in the Wikipedia that there are many different ways of using these default headlines (like "Also see" instead of "See also", "Weblinks" instead of "External links"). Using templates, you can change them all at once by just changing the template content.
Templates for references and quotations
These are explained in the IntactiWiki manual chapter References.
Localization
IntactiWiki supports various localized instances. Currently, Danish, German, English, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Swahili language, and Turkish are available. You will basically see the links to the other IntactiWiki instances on the Main page of each IntactiWiki:
If you have created an article on the English IntactiWiki, you may want to (have someone) do a German translation, too. Therefore, you should add an Interlanguage[1] link at the very bottom of your article, which starts with the two-characters language code of the other IntactiWiki. An example:
[[de:Bearbeiten/Fortgeschritten]]
This will create an interlanguage link on the navigation bar (on the left in left-to-right languages) in the "In other languages" section.
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 ...