Help:FAQ

A MediaWiki resource intended for first-time wiki writers is MediaWiki User Help. The UNHM OpenComputing wiki covers basic wiki writing features at Wiki Editing How To.

Q. How do I create an account?
A. Easy. To create an account
 * 1) Click the Log in/create account link on the top right corner.
 * 2) Choose to create an account.
 * 3) Type in a username, password, and valid email address.
 * 4) Click the Create account link when finished.

Q. How do I create/edit my profile?
A. Click on your username at the top right portion of any page while logged in. Or Click here. The User page for your username pops up. If you visit it the first time, you are prompted with the message:

There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or edit this page. Click on edit this page.

Q. How do I create a page?
A. If the page relates to a project currently under development, then the page has to be created in the project's name space. See How do I create a wiki page for my project in the Project Documenters section.

Q. How do I add/change content in an existing page?
A. Easy, just search for the page you want to edit. Use Browse Categories or All Pages to find the page of interest. Select the 'edit' tab or click on the 'edit' link of a specific article.

Q. How do I link to another page?
A. Links used in a wiki are called wikilinks. There are four types of wikilinks. See MediaWiki Links. The links you'll be using the most are internal links and external links. followed by a white-space and the the name you want to be displayed.
 * An internal link to a page in the wiki in which you write uses the name of the page within.
 * = NameSpace:Internal_Link
 * Or =  Displayed Text Notice: The | symbol is used to actually hide th link syntax.
 * An external link to page somewhere on a site is either the URL itself of that page or, within [ ] you write the URL
 * = Displayed Text

Q. How do I set an anchor (or bookmark) in the page I'm editing?
A. You cannot use the HTML  tag in MediaWiki, so one cannot use. Use instead the "id" HTML attribute with almost any existing tag. Most frequently used tags are div and span. Examples of setting up anchors are: Use "link-here" string in the wikilink that references the particular portion of the page that has "link-here" as id. See guidelines below for how to write a reference to an anchor in a pager.
 * text
 * text
 * text (for inline use in bulleted lists).

Q. How do I reference an anchor set up in a wiki page?
A. Inside a regular wikilink include the hash sign (#) and the name or the id tag name you used for the text you want to reference.

For example, if  "DONATE:Timeline"  is the name of the wiki page where an anchor is, and  "P1"  is the name of the anchor, then you write:
 * Timeline.

If the anchor is in the same page where the reference is, then you write:
 * .

If you want to change the name of the reference, then use:
 * Project Proposal

Q. How do I sign a discussion page article?
A. Simply place four Tildes anywhere you'd like to create a signature ~ This looks like C.Reekie, Admin 20:15, 4 November 2010 (UTC). To change your signature go to your user preferences page Otherwise your default signature will be 

Q. What are some useful pages I can use to learn more?
A. The most useful page is the special pages, from here you can change your preferences, Get a list of all pages or Categories.

Q. What is IRC and what channel do CIS students use?
A. IRC stands for Internet relay Chat and is a multi-user, multi-channel chatting system. Chatting on IRC is totally free!

You can find your fellow UNHM CIS students chatting in the #UNHMCIS Channel.


 * Simply Type:

Use this link to go there directly now! or for more Information check out the | IRC How To at our sister wiki for an in depth guide to IRC.

Q. How do I upload images to this wiki?
A. The toolbox on the sidebar has a link that takes you to the Upload file page. That page also has the instructions for how to display the image on a page.

Q. How do I post an image to a wiki page?
A. To include an image file in a page, use a link in one of the following forms:
 * [[File:FileName.jpg]] to use the full version of the file.
 * FileName.png to use a 200 pixel wide rendition in a box in the left margin with 'alt text' as description.
 * [[Media:File.ogg]] for directly linking to the file without displaying the file.

Q. How do I use color in my wiki editing?
A. Use HTML elements, such as  or  , to which you add inline style attributes, such as style="color:#red" or style="background:#e6e6fa". See Wiki color formatting help resource.

Q. How do I "escape" HTML code?
A. If you want to write HTML code and not let MediaWiki interpret it, then use the tags , , or.