Making A New Wiki

So you are ready to make a brand new wiki page? Awesome! Thanks for contributing to the group. This page outlines the process of making a page and some helpful formatting tips. Once you're done with this, checkout Wiki Best Practices to see how to make your wiki page useful for everyone.

Steps to Make a New Wiki Page

1. Assuming you are reading this you are on the wiki page but be sure you login
2. Go to your browsers url and replace whatever is after index.php/ with whatever you want to name your page noting that underscores will map to spaces. For example, this page was made by the following edit http://fluid.colorado.edu/wiki/index.php/Making_A_New_Wiki
3. Assuming you chose a unique title this will take you to a new blank wiki page with a Create button near the top
4. Click that create button and then start composing your new wiki in the editing window
5. When you are done with this draft (wikis are NEVER done) click the save page button (feel free to put something descriptive in the Summary window at the bottom.

DONE

Formatting

See this Mediawiki cheatsheet and this Mediawiki page for general information about heading structures, making lists, and adding bold, italics, etc.

Some basics:

Headings

Headings are done by surrounding a line with different numbers of =. Note these start at level 2, as level 1 is the heading style of the page title.

Level 2: == Level 2 Header ==

Level 3: === Level 3 Header ===

...

Level 6: ====== Level 6 Header ======

Code Formatting

Code is formatted with HTML tags. For inline code, do

 <code> some code </code>  

To do larger code blocks, you need the <nowiki> tag with a space leading the start tag. I can't get the formatting to show up correctly here, so go here and scroll up to see the section I'm talking about.

Categories

You can mark a page as being apart of a category. This is done by adding a [[Category: MyCategory]] to the page. See Special:Categories for the categories already in use on the wiki.