Conversion script: link fix

2015-02-26T23:48:55Z

link fix

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HomePage>>[[HintsAndTips]]

0) At the bottom of every page is a link "Edit Text of this Page". Click this link to, you guessed it, edit the text of the current page. To avoid wiki spam, you now have to login to [[PickWiki]] before doing this - see [[CanBeEdited]].

1) Making a new page
*To make a new page, run two or more words together and capitalize the first letter of each word,
*or you can put <nowiki>[[around the words]]</nowiki> - the words will then have a ? link in the generated page.
*If you want the user to see the link described differently from the page entry name then you can put a description after the page name separated by a vertical bar<nowiki> : [[PrimeInformation|Prime Information]]</nowiki>. The link will now contain a space, but the page name will not.
*After the page has been saved, click on the ? link to start editing the new page.

2) If you post source code, surround it with PRE tags to keep the wiki from making a link out of every class and variable name. Watch out for trailing "\" characters at the end of lines. Even within a <nowiki><PRE></nowiki> section this appears to escape the end of line character and smush lines together.

<PRE>
E=\!sudo shutdown -h now \
PRINT "Are you sure you want to shutdown?"
</PRE>

VS.

<PRE>
E=\!sudo shutdown -h now \;
PRINT "Are you sure you want to shutdown?"
</PRE>

3) Some formatting hints:
*To make a bulleted list, start a line with a "*" character
*To make a numbered list, start a line with a "#" character
*To indent a line, start with a ":" character (more :'s indent more)
*To draw a line enter <nowiki>----</nowiki> (four hyphens)
*<nowiki> and </nowiki> work just like they do in html
* = Heading = makes up a heading format.

For more details see: [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TextFormattingRules Text Formatting Rules]

4) Formatted source code tends to be a dead-end, so put a link like 'Back to [[JavaSource]]' at the top of the page.
:Some people even impose structure on a page, by listing the most likely set of links used to reach the page at the top. This becomes more useful as a wiki grows beyond two levels deep :-)

:For example, you could put this at the top of a page:
::HomePage>>HintsAndTips>><nowiki>FormatTips</nowiki>

5) Clicking on the link at the top of every page that matches the page title, will give a reverse index - a list of all pages that link to this one.

6) To include an external url, either just put it in the text, or you can create a link by putting the url in single square brackets. A description to go in the link can go after the url separated by a space - <pre>[http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TextFormattingRules Text Formatting Rules]</pre>

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Conversion script: link fix