Help:Contents

The following documentation from MediaWiki should be useful to editors:

• User's Guide
• MediaWiki FAQ

Briefly About MediaWiki

Interwiki Links

You can create links between our private and public wikis using [[neicext:<page-title>]] and [[neitint:<page-title>]]. E.g. the main page of the public wiki written [[neicext:Main Page]]. These are called interwiki links. Apart from being shorter to type, they will allow us in the future to change the URL of the wikis without breaking cross-links between them.

There are also a number of other interwiki links which comes with a installation. See metawikipedia:Help:Interwiki_linking for more on this.

Namespaces

MediaWiki has different kinds of pages, called namespaces. The namespace is encoded as a prefix to the title followed by a colon, e.g. the current page is in the Help namespace. The most important namespaces are:

• The main namespace has no prefix and contains the real content.
• The Talk namespace is used to discuss the content of normal pages, and can be reached from the "Discussion" tab.
• The Category namespace is used to classify pages, as described below.
• The Special namespace works as a user interface to various features of the wiki, including user management, audits, and page queries. It can be reached from the left tab.
• The Help namespace is used to document the wiki itself. The current page resides in our own Help namespace, though we'll link to MediaWiki's Help pages for generic documentation.

These are not normally used to organize the main content, but rather meta-content and special features.

Categories

The main way to organize content is though Categories. Categories are collections of pages other categories. A page can belong to any number of categories. To make a page or category a member of a category C, add the following to the corresponding page:

[[Category:C]]

File links

You can link to files: e.g.:

• File:uploadedfile.png
• H2020, EGI and the Nordics

If you want to link to the file directly not to the version control of it, write media instead of file.

Access Control

Users and their group membership are listed on the Special:UserList special page. Those who are member of the bureaucrat group can also edit group membership on Special:UserRights. You can see the full list of groups in Special:ListGroupRights.