Mediawiki Help

This is to help people who are not very familiar with editing on Mediawiki and is also a guide to help me remember certain things that are useful when editing.

Redirecting
Sometimes you will need to redirect, for instance we have an article called Custom Firmware(CFW) which is the main article, but we also had CFW, so we added the redirect in CFW, to make it point to Custom Firmware(CFW), if you click on either link, they should direct to the same place.

Never redirect an article which contains information, only redirect an article that is completely blank.


 * 1) REDIRECT pagename <--- The command, where it says pagename, enter the name of the page that you want to be redirected to, for instance, i went into the blank page CFW and entered
 * 2) REDIRECT CFW, saved it then that was it set up, you can find more info here

Images
To post images, you must use Imgur.

Configuration parameters xSO1ufX.jpg

xSO1ufX.jpg

xSO1ufX.jpg

Images can be thumbnailed and size controlled by using  attribute for width and setting the   attribute to   and entering text into the   attribute. The thumbnailed version is wrapped in a  tag and class for skin based and wiki wide CSS changes.

Embedding Video
Sometimes videos are a great way of showing something.

- Tag Hook
Videos can easily be embedded with the tag hook. The ID/URL goes as the input between the tags and parameters can be added as the tag arguments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSsYTj9kCHE

Alternativly, you can also use the service id as the tag (assuming another extension isn't already using this tag).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSsYTj9kCHE

As of version 2.x, EmbedVideo supports embedding video content from the following services:

Customise Sidebar
The sidebar can provide great information and be of help for visitors, it can also be a great help for visitors, you can read more info here