Help:Contents

[edit] General help

(For an introduction to wiki sites, try Wikipedia's Tutorial or Help contents page.)

• How to start a new article
• How to edit a page: a good introduction to editing pages on a wiki like this
• Wikipedia Help: comprehensive help on wikis and MediaWiki software (which Oberwiki uses)

[edit] Oberwiki-specific help

• Oberwiki:Conventions: a few article naming conventions
• Help:Image galleries: how to create a gallery of uploaded images
• Help:Maps: how to put a Google Map on an Oberwiki page

[edit] Linking to Wikipedia

Linking to Wikipedia's a great thing if you think someone might want more information on a topic that doesn't pertain to Oberlin in any way (like the public domain!). To create a link to an article on Wikipedia, this is what you type:

[[Wikipedia:Page Title Here|Text to be displayed]]