Help:Contents

Note: I'm trying to get the complete help system installed but in the meantime visit the MediaWiki help site: MediaWiki Help In particular you might find these links useful: How to edit Wiki pages and Starting a new page

Creating a new page in a Wiki is somewhat odd. You first create the link. Edit a page and insert the new page name in double square brackets like this: Nizo cameras: how to repair. When you save the edit your link to a non-existent page will be red. When you follow that link you are brought to an edit form to create the new page.

Page names
If a new pages is about one camera or manufacturer I suggest starting the page title with the model so that it is sorted properly in the lists. For example "Leicina Special: how to repair" not "How to repair a Leicina Special".

Categories
By using Wiki categories we can have navigation automatically created. To put a page in a category you include a category tag. Pages can be in multiple categories. These are some of the current categories:

Cateogry:Repair

and one category for each brand name, for example

It is possible to have sub-categories. "Cameras" is a sub-category of "Manufacturers". An individual page about a Bauer camera would be tagged like this:.

More information on category techniques can be found here: Mediawiki Categories explained

Templates
All currently existing templates on www.super8wiki.com are infoboxes.

Infoboxes
Ideally, each article should have an infobox for a quick overview of the described item's basic properties. All infoboxes existing so far: