MediaWiki which is used to generate this website is a free software wiki package written in, originally for use on Wikipedia. And is now used by several other projects including this one.
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For better understanding of how this software works, one should know something about Hyperlinks,Browsers, HTML.
Also see
Next thing to learn about the wiki is how to edit pages
Do not be afraid of this, it can be as easy as creating simple Word document
1. There is an edit tag at the top of each page When clicking on it, the page changes into a word processor style
2. You can type your text in the window Some formatting is available for you at the top of editing page (bold, italic, etc.)
3. When you are happy with the text you have edited at the bottom of the page there is a Save page, Show preview, Show changes buttons. This allows you to save your contribution, see preview of your page or see the changes you have made respectively
4. You can also see some icons at the top of editing page. Clicking them you can place code markers in the text sow the browser interprets them to allow basic formating (bold,italic), creats links, uploads images, etc.
5. Links appearing in the text can be blue or red.
Blue ones are the Internal MediaWiki pages that hold existing article (purple when you have already vistied the page), red ones are still empty (article diesn't exist) and needs to be written.
See the Editing pages
Links that can be embedded in the text can be Internal MediWiki pages or External pages (any web page outside of MediaWiki).
Links are signified in the text using square brackets
New MediaWiki pages are generated when putting double square brackets around the words (that will be a page name)
See the Links.
There are several ways of starting a new page:
1. Creating Internal MediaWiki pages (see above)
Usually this is the best way to create a new page, because it means that right from the start, the page will be linked from at least one other place on the MediWiki.
When creating a new page without any link to it, you should ask yourself: Does this page really fit in with the topics already covered in the wiki? How are you expecting visitors to find this page? Usually there is no reason to create a page without first creating a red link to it.
2. Using URL
You can use the MediaWiki's URL for creating a new page. The usual URL to an article of the MediaWiki looks something like this: ''http://www.example.net/index.php/ARTICLE '' or ''http://www.example.net/wiki/ARTICLE''
If you replace the word ARTICLE in the URL with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet.
Then click the "Edit" page tab at the top of the page. Typing your text, and clicking save a new page by clicking Save page button at the bottom of the page.
3. Using Search box and Go button (on the left of the page)
If you search for a page that doesn't exist yet then you will be provided with a link to create the new page.
It doesn't work if you use search button instead of go
See the Starting a new page
4. List of Missing articles that are already linked to existing ones is located in Navigation bar on the left side of wiki page. One can create an article by clicking on the red link to the missing article.
==Headings==
===Subsection===
Using more equals signs creates a subsection.
====Smaller subsection====
Don't skip levels, like from two to four equals signs.
!Start with 2 equals signs not 1 because 1 creates H1 tags which should be reserved for page title!
Use the Return to the Table of Content function after each heading or section. That allows a reader to get back to the Table of content. Especially helpful when pages are getting extensive.
Simply place
<font size=1>[[#toc|TOP]]</font size>
after the heading and insert an empty line before starting the text. That will generate TOP anchor that will take readed back to the Table of Content
Headers automatically become HTML anchors, which can be linked to in the wiki text.
Referencing anchors:
Inside a regular wikilink [[page#anchor_name|shown_up_as]], define a page name, include the hash sign (#) and the header name.
Example:
[[Help:Contents#Headings|Headings]] creates an anchor in the text Headings
Information provided in this site aims to be scientific and evidence based. Therefore we expect the editors to reference the information provided.
Creating a reference:
!If you forget to include <references /> in the article, the footnotes will not appear, but a red error message will be displayed at the end of the page!
Example:
According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big.<ref>E. Miller, The Sun, (New York: Academic Press, 2005), 23-5.</ref>The Moon, however, is not so big.<ref>R. Smith, "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 46 (April 1978): 44-6.</ref>
===Notes===
<references/>
will appear as
According to scientists, the Sun is pretty big.<ref>E. Miller, The Sun, (New York: Academic Press, 2005), 23-5.</ref>The Moon, however, is not so big.<ref>R. Smith, "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 46 April 1978): 44-6.</ref>
<references/>
There are two ways to enbed tables in the wiki:
To help you- the editor and to keep a unified style of our wiki we would like to suggest using our templates when writing articles and creating your profile:
To use the Template a code is placed in the page that allows a substution of the code for the template text.
{{subst: Drug General Template}}
{{subst: Disease General Template}}
{{subst: Personal Profile}}
We do understand some of the fields may not be relevant to your article, so feel free to modify it.
To use the template:
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Simply leave a space in fornt of statement when starting a new line
See the Formatting
Images, pdf files and Flash presentations can be uploaded and embedded in the pages or hyperlinked - see Upload file link in the side menu and for more explanation there are details on an Upload File Page
MediaWiki allows you to categorise pages and files by appending one or more Category tags to the content text. Adding these tags creates links at the bottom of the page that take you to the list of all pages in that category, which makes it easy to browse related articles.
List of main categories that are suggested to be used in Pharmahost.org project are listed on the Main Page as Index of Categories. We recommend adding categories at the top of the article you are writting (before the Introduction heading). One must add all the related Categories and subcategories to the article. (We suggest following index structure when adding them).
[[Category:Category]]
Just remember to add Category: before the name of the category.
[[:Category:Category]]
anywhere in wiki text. To display alternate text for the link, add that after a pipe as with other internal links
[[:Category:Category|Specific Category]]
To keep articles structured and have a hierarchy, we propose using sub-categories.
We think you are ready to start contributing to this collaborative repository of knowledge.
As an editor you have to request a username and passowrd from Project administration team. Once you have your log in details, use log in section at the top right corner of the page. And enjoy!
If you still have some quetions or want to find more about the software you are about to use consult MediaWiki