Intermediate usage information

• Click [Old revisions]
• Click on the page name on any line to see that date’s version of the page
• Click on the little 3D-specs on that page (which look like this:) to compare that version with the current version of the page
• To permanently retrieve an old version (”revert” to an older version of the page):
  • Click on the desired version’s page-name to bring it back into view
  • Click [Edit this page] on the old version
  • Click [Save] to save that old version as the newest version

• Some characters are automatically “prettied” when the page is presented:

• Quotes are also fixed up: 'this' becomes ‘this’, etc.

• When a wiki page name is used as a link, the link text that appears on the page is the text of the first heading on the linked page. For example, linking to this page: [[wiki:usageintermediate]] results in: Intermediate usage information.
• To force a particular link text, enter it inside the link following a vertical bar: [[wiki:usageintermediate|More Syntax]] gives: More Syntax.
• You can do the same thing for links to external web sites by putting the URL in link brackets: [[http://collections.nhm.org|MBPC Website]] gives: MBPC Website

• To include an image “inline” in a page, first upload it (see wiki:usagebasic]]).
• Reference the image on the page using double curly braces: {{wiki:mbpc-32.png}} gives:
• You can left-justify, center, or right-justify an image by inserting left or right whitespaces by the curly braces of the link. The image on this item, for example, was forced left using: {{wiki:mbpc-32.png }}
• To use an image as a wiki or web link, include the image link the same way you would force link text, after a vertical bar in the link. For example: [[http://collections.nhm.org|{{wiki:mbpc-32.png}}]] creates this image link (if you hover the mouse over it, you’ll see the link target):

• To force a linebreak without a new paragraph, end a line with two backslashes, like this: \\
  

and the line will break there. In general, though, use a blank line to separate text as paragraphs.

• You can surround text with boxes for emphasis:

• The default unnumbered lists are marked using two leading spaces then an ‘*’ before each list item.
• To use an “ordered” (automatically numbered) list, precede the list items with two spaces and a single dash:

    - First numbered item
    - Second numbered item
      - nesting works fine
      - each level of nesting uses a different type of numbering

1. First numbered item
2. Second numbered item
   1. nesting works fine
   2. each level of nesting uses a different type of numbering

• Tables are outlined using vertical bars to separate table elements. Table headers are outlined using hat-signs “^”:

^ Type    ^ Number  ^ Importance ^
| People  | 7   | quite |
| Places  | 2    | sort of |
| Things  | many | not very |

• Cells do not have to be aligned vertically in your text — they will be aligned properly in the final table
• Make sure you have the correct number of cells on each row or ugly things will happen
• It is possible to affect cell alignment and “span” over multiple columns. For those details, see the complete table syntax description.

• You can insert a footnote by putting in the footnote text, surrounded by double-parentheses, at the point where you want the footnote number to appear. The text in the parentheses will be displayed at the end of the page as a footnote.
• For example, this((Sample footnote text.)) results in this1).

• You can create text that is “folded” into an outline that will “unfold” on mouse-clicks. Hovering the mouse over a folded line results in a ghostly preview of the text.
• To create outline text, surround blocks of text using --> test to open the block, and <-- to close the block.

--> Top-level line
Contents here will be optionally visible,
depending on clicking the "Top-level line".
<--

Contents here will be optionally visible, depending on clicking the “Top-level line”

• For more details, see the outliner plugin documentation.

• Occasionally it is useful to avoid having the wiki do its magic formatting. For short segments, use double-percent signs:

%%no **boldface** here%%

• For longer segments, surround the block of text with <code> tags:

<code>
No formatting inside this block.
</code>

• If you are particularly interested in a page on the wiki, you can receive an email whenever it is changed. This may be important for critical pages, or just ones that you have a personal stake in.
• You must be logged in to register for a page (or how would the system know where to send the notification?).
• Click [Subscribe changes] at the bottom of any page of interest and you will be notified whenever it is modified.
• To unsubscribe, go back to the page and click the same button (now labelled [Unsubscribe changes]).

• Some pages should not be available to the public (internal contact information, for example). It is possible to “protect” pages from view except by particular authorized logins.
• To do that, contact your friendly local system administrator (unfortunately it cannot be done by regular system users).

• Of course, anyone can edit a wiki page. Sometimes, though, it’s useful to have an explicit space on a page for discussions about the page contents. Those discussions my persist indefinitely, or be “harvested” and consolidated into a new version of the page.
• To create a “discussion area” for a page, include the following anywhere in the page text: ~~DISCUSSION~~ (capitalized “DISCUSSION” surrounded by pairs of tilde symbols)2)
• Including that string will put a “Discussion” box at the end of the page, where anyone can append remarks to the ongoing chat.
• To turn off the discussion feature, put this anywhere in the text: ~~NODISCUSSION~~ (the existing discussion text will be saved, but not displayed).