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'See also: Questions about MediaWiki

Contents 1 Getting started 2 Signing things 3 More advanced / Features/Reference 3.1 Navigational images (using an image as the "text" of a link)

Getting started

There are tutorials and documentation about editing available:

• Editing help content on Meta
• The How to edit a page guide / Cheat sheet on Wikipedia

Play around! Use the Sandbox if you just want to play around and try something out without disrupting any actual articles.

Signing things

• Use ~~~~ to sign things!!! It will look like this:

— Tyler (2006-12-25 17:40)

• ~~~ will just insert the date:

— Tyler (

More advanced / Features/Reference

If you learn something new about MediaWiki or some question ("How do I...?"), the place to put it is: MediaWiki / Questions about.

• [[Advanced MediaWiki]
• w:Help:Link
  • w:Help:Interwiki linking
  • w:Help:Navigational images (using an image as the "text" of a link)
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Calculation (arithmetic / math)
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files
• w:Wikipedia:Transclusion
• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Variables
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_characters
• Help:Displaying a formula - Meta

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Navigational images (using an image as the "text" of a link)

See Template:clickpic for details.