Animal Migration Wiki:Help
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Writing style
Where appropriate follow the standard guidelines for writing about biology:
- References (Author, Date), or reference to websites by simply placing them in single square brackets.
- Capitalise and italicise binomial nomenclature.
- Use common names from current AOU Checklist
- Attribute quotes, don't cut and paste entire articles that aren't yours - We do not want any hints of copyright infringement or plagiarism associated with this wiki.
The readers of this site could have any level of biological knowledge - if you're using a specialist term make it a wikilink (see below) to a short page explaining the term (with a link to the Wikipedia or equivalent article on the subject where appropriate.
Page style
Many commands can be inserted using the editing tool bar which appears during any editing session:
The most useful bit of code you'll need for editing a page is how to link to other pages.
- [[Animal Migration Wiki page you want to link to]] (Animal Migration Wiki page you want to link to)
- [http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu External link to Oklahoma Biological Survey web page] (External link to Oklahoma Biological Survey web page)
Other bits of code you might find useful:
- '''Bold text''' (Bold text)
- ''Italic text'' (Italic text)
(Both bold and italics commands use a single quote mark ( ' ) repeated either two or three times. Don't confuse this with a double quote mark.)
Other formatting must be entered by typing:
You can divide pages up using Titles:
- ==Title==
- ===Sub-Title===
- ====Sub-Title====
And horizontal lines:
- -----
Indents and such:
Bulleted lists:
- * Bulleted, unsorted list
- ** Double bullet
Indented, unbulleted lists:
- : Like this
- : And this
This is also useful for indenting new paragraphs to keep them in line with a bulleted list.
Numbered lists:
- # number automatically
- # make it easy to move items around in a list
- # let you add items between other items
HTML code
Not all HTML code is allowed on the site, but a lot is. Some of the most usefull being <DIV> and <TABLE>:
| Table item 1 link. |
| table item 2 |
Please refrain from using complicated HTML where Wiki Markup or simpler HTML will suffice, as not all editors will be able to understand the HTML when they come to edit a page. Tables are justified for ordering information, and DIV for positioning objects.
(Click edit help to see the code of this help page.)
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Images
Add images like this: [[Image:Mybirdpic.jpg]]
It will show up like this: Image:Mybirdpic.jpg
See Wikipedia images for more information. Useful image pages include list of images, upload image files, and Orphaned images.
Further information
For more details, check out these pages at Wikipedia:
