CZ:Technical Help
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Get help with MediaWiki, templates, and more
| MediaWiki--the software that runs this wiki--has an undeserved reputation for difficulty of use. But you can just dive in and start typing the way way you'd type an e-mail. Come to this page, however, for a jumping-off place to technical instructions. |
Editing helps
- How to edit an article
- Our local manual for MediaWiki, not to be confused with our style guide, Article Mechanics. Also useful: MediaWiki help and Wikipedia help
- Searching
- How to use the search box (in the upper left).
- Enhancing your editing with javascript extensions
- Some software enhancements you can include for your personal use.
- Other editing utilities
- Here are a few more pages that may be of help in writing articles:
- Box Help - for inset text boxes
- Citation templates - many templates are available for citing books, etc.
- Symbols - but these are also found beneath the edit box
Subpage technical help
A unique feature of the Citizendium is that we use subpages for reference information of different types. As a result, we have to connect all the subpages together and with the main page.
- Using the Subpages template
- The main technical guide to subpages.
- Start article with subpages
- A tool that makes starting a "subpagified" article as painless as possible.
Help for programmers
- Bug reporting and feature requests
- Did you spot a software bug? Have a feature request? Report it here.
- Citizendium-Tools
- The CZ technical mailing list.