Difference between revisions of "Howto"

Revision as of 19:36, 20 November 2017

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

• Red links - link created, page auto-created by clicking on a red link, to then be populated and edited.
• Blue links - links to pages already populated, open to editing.

To contribute:

• Register on bombaywiki.with.camp: Top-right, click "Guest" -> "Create Account"
• Send us an email to grant you edit access to the wiki, mention your username
• Entries are to be added alphabetically per section to the main page which serves as an index of the site.
  

Each entry on this page is a link to a page of that name.

For example to create a new entry called "New Entry", click "Edit" on top, scroll to appropriate heading and alpahabetical position.

Type as below then 'Save':
[[New Entry]]

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

"There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or create this page"

Click on "create this page" and and populate. Once complete, "Save Changes".

Documentation and help links:

• Formatting: You can format your text by using wiki markup.
  See (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting)
  

 eg: bold - 3 single quotes enclosing text
 '''bold'''

• Adding links: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links

• Uploading files:

* Files (png, gif, jpg, jpeg, webp, pdf, webm, mp4, mp3) can be uploaded, to embed or link-to as required on relevant pages.

* Filename should be complete and informative. (example: Books should have author, title, publication year in the title)

* Prepare the file, go to "Upload File" button, top-left on bombaywiki.

* Add useful information in the "Summary" section of the upload file form - a blurb, tags, or metadata like Book Author, etc.

  More help here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Managing_files

• To find 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

Recent Files - thumbnail/icon with title list of recently uploaded files.

• To Link and Display files see links in bombaywiki left-panel:

* Display Images
* Link and Embed PDF
* Embed Audio-Video files

• Embedding video from external sites like pandora based https://pad.ma or https://indiancine.ma (https://wiki.pad.ma/wiki/embed)