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bombaywiki.with.camp is a collaborative, wiki type, subjective encyclopedia of Bombay.

Writing Style

• This wiki encourages subjective and opinionated writing in its pages.
• Sources can vary from personal experience, oral sources, reading, newspapers, etc. but it is NOT necessary to reference every fact or claim. Sources in any can be placed in the bottom of a page, under the heading Further Reading. An example is: Anna_Bhau_Sathe#Further_Reading:.
• Do not link to external sites within your pages, place them in Further Reading. Where valid, you should link to pages in this wiki. See the Adding Links section below.

The Index

is the Main Page of the wiki. It consists of groups of entities (People, Places, Organizations, Events, Things, Concepts, Interpretations etc), each alphabetically sorted.

• Red links - there is no page yet, page is created by clicking on the red link, to then be populated.
• Blue links - links to pages already populated, open to editing.

To Begin Contributing

• Register on bombaywiki.with.camp: Top-right, click "Guest" -> "Create Account"
• Send us an email to grant you edit access, mention your username
  email to: contact+bombaywiki@studio.camp
• Entries are to be added alphabetically per section to the main page which serves as an index/overview of the site.
  • Each entry on this page is a link to a page of that name.
• Creating a new entry in index
  • To create a new entry called "Carrom", click "Edit" next to the title of each section, scroll to appropriate heading and alpahabetical position.
  • Type as below then 'Save':
    

  [[Carrom]]<br>

• • This creates a link. Click on it, you will see this message:

"You have followed a link to a page that does not exist yet. To create the page, start typing in the box below (see the help page for more info). If you are here by mistake, click your browser's back button."

• • You can now add text, add links and embed image/audio/video files. Once complete, "Save Changes".
  • You may use "Show Preview" to see what the page looks like without saving it. Save when satisfied.

Help links and Documentation

on how to format text, add links, embed images/audio/video files

Formatting text

You can format your text by using wiki markup.

• • See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
    
  • For example:

• • Creating headings within a page

Headings can be level 2-6 (most practically 3-6), created by enclosing text in "=" on a new line ,as per heading level.
Do not put any text on the same line after the ending equal signs.
An article with 4 or more headings automatically creates a table of contents.

=== Heading Level 3 ===
==== Heading Level 4 ====
===== Heading Level 5 =====

• • Paragraphs

MediaWiki ignores single line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line.
You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tag <br>

Adding links

• See detailed documentation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links

Internal link basic format:

[[target-link|what to display]]

External link basic format:

[[url link-text]]

• Some examples:

Uploading files

• Files (png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp, pdf, webm, mp4, mp3) can be uploaded, to embed or link-to as required on pages.
  
• Filename should be complete and informative.
  For example: Books should have author, title, publication year in the title)
• Documents (PDF) and images should be uploaded at their original resolution. You can resize them for viewing later.
• Maximum file size is 64MB.
• To upload click "Upload File" button, top-left on bombaywiki.
• Add a summary or description or tags in the "Summary" section of the upload file form.
  Click "Upload File" button at bottom of the page.
• To find and use uploaded files see these links in bombaywiki left-panel:
  • All Files
    - list of all files uploaded to the wiki in a tabular format with title, metadata, description visible
    - can be sorted by any field by clicking on field heading.
  • Recent Files
    - list of recently uploaded files, title with thumbnail.
  • Note: click on a file in the list takes you to the file description page.
• More help: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Managing_files

Using files

• To Link and Display files see links in bombaywiki left-panel:
  • Link and Embed PDF
  • Display Images
  • Embed Audio-Video files

Embedding video from external sites

• Pandora based sites (pad.ma or indiancine.ma)