Help:Editing
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Editing (using wiki formatting) is fairly simple.
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[edit] Bold Text
Surround the text with three single quotes ('), like '''This text will be bold.'''
The result will look like: This text is bold.
[edit] Italic Text
Surround the text with two single quotes ('), like ''This text will be in italics.'' Do not use a quotation mark (").
The result will look like: This text is in italics.
[edit] Links to Covenant pages
Enclose the title of the page with double square brackets, like [[Sermon Archive]] .
The result will look like: Sermon Archive.
[edit] Links to other websites
Simply type the URL into the page, like http://www.gnu.org/ . The http:// prefix is important!
The result will look like: http://www.gnu.org
If you don't want the full URL to appear, enclose the URL in square brackets ([]), like [www.gnu.org] .
The result will look like: [1].
Be cautious with which websites we link to!
[edit] Titles
To create a title, and a table of contents, start sections with a title surrounded by double equal signs, like == Section Title == . To create an outline, use more equal signs per level. See the page Sermon Archive for a good example of how to do this.
[edit] Larger Text
To make text bigger, tag it with HTML <big>, like <big>This text will be bigger.</big>. Please do not use this instead of titles, explained in the above paragraph.
The result will look like: This text is bigger.
[edit] Photos
To include a photo, you first have to upload it using the page Special:Upload, which has seperate help. To include a photo in your page, follow this template:
[[Image:Image Name.ext|thumbnail|Size|Alternate Text]]
The size needs a px suffix, and a number preceding it which should never be larger than 500. The alternate text is shown to people using browsers that cannot display images. For example, to show a picture called Map-to-church.jpeg at a medium size, use:
[[Image:Map-to-church.jpeg|thumbnail|400px|Map of Church Location]]
More Information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax.
If you use multiple photos, it is considered good form to put them either on alternating sides of the page or use a table (below).
[edit] Clip Art
Clip art is included in much the same way as photos. The Open Clip Art page has pictures you are legally entitled to use. NEVER USE ANY CLIP ART FROM YOUR COMPUTER!
[edit] Lists
Use the "*" and "#" characters to create bulletted and numbered lists, respectively.
e.g.Bulletted List: * Point ** Subpoint Numbered List: # Number 1 ## Sub-Number 1
results in:
Bulletted List:
- Point
- Subpoint
Numbered List:
- Number 1
- Sub-Number 1
See meta:Help:List for details.
[edit] Tables
Tables are rather complex. There is an excellent page about them here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
It can be easiest to create the table in Mozilla, and paste it in this site to convert it to a wiki-table: http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/.
For an example of images in a table, see the Main Page.
[edit] Other Miscellaneous Things
Most of these are not generally useful.
Full (but more technical) wikiformatting discussion: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext.