Tips
First Tips
Introduction to some wiki functions
Embed Youtube Videos
Use <embedvideo service="youtube">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAORm-8b1Eg</embedvideo> under edit source for simple YT Video embeddings.
More sophisticated ways to embed here
Mediawiki Guide
A useful guide to Mediawiki (Bookform) can be found here
How to Link sections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet
[[Article#Section]]
Renaming articles
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Moving_a_page
How to introduce collapsable elements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Collapsing#:~:text=A Note: Post collapsible code under edit source.
How to use colors
Use source code editing. Add:
<span style="color:hex triplet or colour name">text</span> [1]
Hex color picker: https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker/
How to mentions someone
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Mention
Important: In order to get Email notifications make sure to turn on email notifications for mentions in the notification settings.
Mentioning someone that a notification is sent requires two steps
- Tag the User you want to mention in the following format [[User:Username]] e.g. [[User:PirateCaptain]]
- Sign the msg via the sign symbol next to the "I" in editing mode or includes 4 ~ to the end of the msg.
Tip: If you are really unsure how mentioning work create a secondary test account to test it by mentioning yourself.
How to keep control over your articles
Put them on your watchlist. You will get notified once an article on your watchlist gets modified.
Introduction into Namespaces (and a lot of helpful content)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace
Overview over Guidelines and Principles in Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Principles
Get Emojis
They can be found here. Use them only (sparsely) on discussion pages and NOT in articles. https://getemoji.com/
Watchlists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Watchlist
Notifications on article changes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Syndication. See also Guideline:WikiNotifications
Changes to Spam filter
Sources that are mistakenly blocked by the Spam filter can be added to a Whitelist here: https://www.investmentwiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist
Please contact me in Discord @Pirate Captain to make additions to the whitelist.
Backup of all pages
https://www.investmentwiki.org/wiki/Special:Export
https://www.investmentwiki.org/wiki/Special:AllPages
https://www.investmentwiki.org/wiki/Special:WikiBackups
More Infos: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Backing_up_a_wiki