Help:Contents

Add solutions as you find them. The Wiki Fire is a community learning experience. If you post what you learn, others can build on that knowledge. Some day, this page should be able to answer nearly any question about Wiki functionality.

For formatting help, here is the Cheat Page from Wikipedia. I don't know if it all applies to these pages, but most of it should.

You can also download this one-page Wiki Reference Card (PDF) and print it out. Keep it by your computer.

Creating a page

Search The Wiki Fire for an article. If that article does not exist, the site will ask you if you would like to create it. Do it! The more people use this Web site, the more useful it will become.

Editing a page

To edit an article, click the edit tab and start making changes and/or adding information. To help site editors and other interested users, add a brief description of your changes to the "Summary" bar directly above the "Save page" button.

Make sure you use the "Show preview" button to make sure your changes all worked before saving the page. This will help keep the page change history clean and easy to follow. However, if you make a mistake, no worries. Everybody has to learn somehow.

The Wiki Fire is your playground and a useful tool. Please experiment.

Creating a table of contents on a page

The table of contents will be automatically created once there are four or more sections on the page. A section is created by using the "=" character as follows:

1. == headline == will create a main section.
2. === subheadline == will create a subsection.
3. ==== sub-subheadline === will create a subsection within that subsection.

For an example, click edit on this page and see how the different sections were created.

Creating links

There are two kinds of links in The Wiki Fire, internal links and external links. A wiki depends on tagging as many internal links as possible, so this is important.

To create an internal link, put the word you would like to link in brackets as follows.
Type: [The Wiki Fire]
Get: The Wiki Fire

To create an external link, put the entire URL, including the http:// into one set of brackets. This style can also be used for citing sources.
Type: [http://www.bigmuddyrecords.org/ Big Muddy Records]
Get: Big Muddy Records

Type: There are five bands on this label.[http://www.bigmuddyrecords.org/]
Get: There are five bands on this label.[1]

There are also buttons above the editing window you can use if you forget how to link.

Fun features

Google Maps usage

Click on the "make a map" link on any edit page and use the interface to find the spot you want. The page will load with the map preset to that location.

YouTube integration

You can embed any video on YouTube into this wiki. Here's how you do it.

1. Find a video on YouTube and copy down its YouTube ID. This can be found in the address bar. and looks something like ii8wMv3k1XQ.
2. Go to the spot on the page you would like to add the embedded video to and type "<youtube v="ii8wMv3k1XQ" />", replacing the ii8wMv3k1XQ with the YouTube ID you found.

For an example in working, visit the Galesburg Backyard Wrestling page. Click edit if you would like to see how the video was placed.