From Inspired Acoustics Knowledge Base

The first step

1. Please register a free account or log in on the top right of this page. This allows you to make edits, create new pages and open your personal blog to share your experience.

How to

Create a new page

1. You can use the search tool on the left side of this page, or type the page title you would like to create and on the appearing page you can create it.
2. You edit a page that is already existing and put a text link inside which should like this: [[your page title]]. For example: Great inventors of this were [[John Smith]] and some others.Once you add it the name John Smith becomes a red link on which you can click and add the content.
3. You can also find detailed help on the Mediawiki.org website. You will be able to learn how to "better" format your wiki pages, add pictures etc.

Edit an existing page

1. Assuming that you are logged in, click on the Edit tab on the top center of the page you are viewing or click on the blue 'edit' links on the right side of each paragraph. This will take you to the place where you can add your text.

Formatting

Text

• ''Italic text '': surround the text with 2 ' italic text
• '''bold text ''': surround the text with 3 ' bold text
• '''bold and italic text ''': surround the text with 5 ' bold and italic text

Titles/subtitles

The text is surrounded by on or many equal sign =. The = must be at the beginning of a line

• =Level 1= will display
  Level 1
• ==Level 2==will display
  Level 2
• ===Level 3=== will display
  Level 3
• ====Level 4==== will display
  Level 4
• =====Level 5===== will display
  Level 5
• ======Level 6====== will display
  Level 6

Bullets/list

The first character of the line is a *; adding more * will indent the list.

* Level 1
** Level 1-1
** Level 1-2
* Level 2 

• Level 1
  • Level 1-1
  • Level 1-2
• Level 2

Add links and references

1. Inner links to existing pages can be added by using [[your page title]]. If the page you are linking does not exist, the link will be displayed in red when you save the page. If your text requires to display a different text than the page title, you can change the display text of the link: [[your_page_title|my appearance text]]. Note that spaces are replaced by _ characters in this case.

Use categories

To be able to populate category lists automatically with pages of similar content, categories are used. When you are editing a page or creating a new one, it is recommended that you add it to one or more categories.

1. To do this, just place the text [[Category:Something]] anywhere on the page (preferably to its end), where "Something" stands for the appropriate category, for example "Acoustics". This way your article will appear automatically in the category list Acoustics and it will be easier to find.

Add polls

If you wish to use polls on your page, add the following code:

<poll>
My question?
Vote option 1
Vote option 2
</poll>

The first line should be your question, and each new line following that should be options for an answer. Note that if you alter the question at a later time, it will transfer that vote to a new question, such that any previous vote results will be reset.

Add multimedia

Images

1. To add an image to a page, insert [[Image:Somefile.jpg]] to the text, where Somefile.jpg is the desired file name of your choice.
2. Save the page and click on the image where you will provided an interface automatically to upload the image from your computer.

Note: if you would like to embed a thumbnail of an image with a caption, use the following code: [[Image:Somefile.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Caption]]. This will put a 300 px thumbnail aligned right to your page with a caption text "Caption".

MP3, Videos

1. To add an mp3 music to your page, put the code: <flashmp3>Your_MP3_file.mp3</flashmp3> and click on it to upload the file after you saved the page.
2. To embed YouTube videos, use the code: <youtube>CODE</youtube> where CODE is the code of the youtube video that you find in its URL. For example, the YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulp9Tli2AZs can be integrated by replacing CODE with Ulp9Tli2AZs.

Graphs

1. You can put data to any page and make it display as graphs. For example plotting values 12% and 88% on a pie chart would look like this:

<pie title="Test graph">
Some value,12
Other value,88
</pie>

Note: It is possible to use line, bar and other charts too, you can find more details in the Google Chart documentation.

Maps

1. When you are editing a page a small toolbar with buttons appears on the top of the textbox. When you click on the button that is located on the right side, a map toolbox opens.
2. Using this toolbox, navigate to the location and put the placemark of the location that you would like to tag.
3. Copy the code in the grey box and paste it in the text of the page to the location where you wish the map to appear. Save the page and the map should appear correctly.

Add math, expressions

Standard LaTeX can be used to enter expressions between <math> ... </math> tags. Line breaks are allowed but will not be rendered. A detailed reference of symbols, expressions and their use can be found here.