Help:Contents

There is a wealth of available information on wiki technology in general, and the Template:Mediawiki software in particular. This page provides a starting point, with emphasis on topics relevant to the use of MediaWiki at SMU.

Wikis at SMU

This information relates to wikis at SMU.

• Wiki policies at SMU
• Logging in
• Setting up a user page
• Basic editing
• Advanced editing
• Finding uploadable images
• Creating and editing tables
• Citing your sources

Wikipedia documentation

Some of this information is specific to Wikipedia, which uses several extensions to MediaWiki. Most of it also applies here, although you may find some advanced functionality that works differently. If in doubt, consult the MediaWiki documentation below.

• Wikipedia Help Page
• Wikipedia Cheat Sheet
• Wikipedia Manual of Style

• Guidelines on citing sources
• Tutorial on adding images to pages
• Tutorial on using the page history

MediaWiki documentation

These pages provide a simple introduction to MediaWiki. For advanced functionality, you can refer to the Template:Mediawiki on the MediaWiki web site.

Reading

• Navigation
• Tracking changes
• Watchlist

Basic editing

• Editing an existing page
• Starting a new page
• Formatting
• Links

Intermediate editing

• Images
• Tables
• Uploading and managing files
• Moving (renaming) a page
• Redirects

User and talk pages

• User pages
• Talk pages
• Signatures