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Note: If you have a question that is not answered on this page, feel free to ask it on the talk page! (But be sure to read this page first ;-) --Clange 17:36, 16 April 2007 (CEST)

External References
Please see the documentation of Semantic MediaWiki for the semantic features and the MediaWiki cheat sheet and some examples for general editing. You can also print a reference card.

Best Practices
From time to time, this list is enhanced. New items are added at the top.

Marking edits as "minor"
If you just fixed a spelling mistake, linked a word, or reformatted a section, please mark your edit as "minor" by checking the corresponding box below the editing form. You can also configure that all edits should be set minor by default by checking "My Preferences/Editing/Mark all edits as minor by default".

The reason is that people subscribing to the "recent changes" feed (as described on the Main Page) should not be bothered by housekeeping edits that do not change the meaning of the content.


 * Help on minor edits

Saying welcome to a new user
If you notice a new user who contributes to this wiki, welcome him on his talk page! He will automatically be notified when he logs into the wiki next. You can use this template:

~

Adding your own project
To add a short description of your project in the field of mathematics on the web to this wiki, you can create a new page and paste the following template into it:

MyProject is a ...

Resources


For certain specific types of projects there are special macro-like templates, e.g. for Formula editors (see the template)

See also the projects we already have documented. –Clange 20:50, 24 March 2007 (CET), revised 16:11, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Linking to other wikis
“Interwiki” links to many other wikis can be created using a prefix for the respective wiki, followed by the page name:

prefix:Page Name Caption

Some of the supported prefixes are:

See Special:Interwiki for a list of all supported extensions, and ask me to request additional ones to be set up. –Clange 15:32, 22 March 2007 (CET)

Watching pages
To stay informed about changes without always revisiting “recent changes”, you can maintain a watch list if you're logged in. To put a page on your watch list, select “watch” above the heading when viewing the page or “watch this page” when editing. Go to “my preferences” → “E-mail” to configure mail notification. --Clange 13:17, 9 February 2007 (CET)

Crash Course

 * Create new pages by linking to them from existing ones and then following the link.
 * Learn through copy/paste/modify
 * Re-use existing categories, relations (i.e. link types) and attributes!

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" !What it looks like !What you type
 * italic
 * italic
 * bold
 * bold
 * bold
 * bold

Section

 * == Section ==

Subsection
I think that ... --Clange 17:30, 2 September 2006 (CEST)
 * === Subsection ===
 * list item
 * another item
 * * list item
 * another item
 * 1) veni
 * 2) vidi
 * 3) vici
 * # veni
 * 1) vidi
 * 2) vici
 * Clange 17:30, 2 September 2006 (CEST) (Signature)
 * # veni
 * 1) vidi
 * 2) vici
 * Clange 17:30, 2 September 2006 (CEST) (Signature)
 * Clange 17:30, 2 September 2006 (CEST) (Signature)
 * In principle, yes. But ... --Opponent 17:30, 2 September 2006 (CEST) (reply)


 * I think that ... --Clange 17:30, 2 September 2006 (CEST)
 * In principle, yes. But ... --~


 * link, check this!
 * link, check this!
 * A.J. loves loves::Pizza (typed link)
 * A.J. loves loves::Pizza
 * (categorize as bullshit)
 * Phone number: homephone::+49 421 6397398 (attribute)
 * homephone::+49 421 6397398
 * Jacobs (web link)
 * Jacobs
 * $$\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}$$ (math formula, click here for documentation)
 * $$\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}$$
 * (building blocks defined via [ templates]; they have descriptive names and come with their own documentation)
 * Jacobs (web link)
 * Jacobs
 * $$\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}$$ (math formula, click here for documentation)
 * $$\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}$$
 * (building blocks defined via [ templates]; they have descriptive names and come with their own documentation)
 * $$\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}$$
 * (building blocks defined via [ templates]; they have descriptive names and come with their own documentation)
 * (building blocks defined via [ templates]; they have descriptive names and come with their own documentation)


 * }

Questions?
Ask them here! --Clange 10:35, 12 November 2006 (CET)