Wiki Markup tutorial needed

[The Fool]

Hi....anyone????

I need to add a whole heap of doco and recovery procedures into an internal corporate wiki. Anyone know of a good online tutorial or Idiots guide for wiki markup ?

Are there any useable freeware "what you see is what you get" editors available for wiki markup?

[juri]

Do you know what kind of wiki software your company is using? The type of markup you should be using will probably vary based on this.

I think MediaWiki is one of the more popular forms of wiki software. They have a fair amount of helpful documentation about adding different types of content. I can't post links yet because I'm new, but you should be able to find their help pages if you google mediawiki help.

[The Central Scrutinizer]

This, perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial

[TheDaver]

Wiki markup tends to be particular to whatever wiki it is you're working on.

In my experience with Wikipedia so far, for what it's worth, tags are included in double curly brackets. For example, to make a [citation needed] tag, you use {{cite}}. External links are single square brackets in the form [http://www.site.com/ nameyouwanttogivethelink] and internal links are double square brackets in the form [[articlename|nameyouwanttogivethelink]].

Other than that, things tend to be pretty intuitive, for example using asterisks to make bullet lists.

[The Fool]

I have to bang a whole heap of support doco into a corporate mediawiki...It would be nice to use an offline editor to ease the pain of marking it up. Has anyone got any they would recommend? And thanks for your link scrut, I know how it cuts into your hottubs with college seniors time when you post here.

[geni]

I have to bang a whole heap of support doco into a corporate mediawiki...It would be nice to use an offline editor to ease the pain of marking it up. Has anyone got any they would recommend?

Take a look at the mediawiki phaser code to find out why such a thing doesn't really exist.


You can save yourself a lot of hastle by remebering there are only a handful of bits of markup people actualy need:


[[link]]

'''bold'''
''italic''
=heading level1= (no one really uses this mind)

==heading level2==

===heading level3===

#REDIRECT [[target]]

and [[Image:name.jpg|thumb|right|caption]]


Pretty much everything else involves stuff averge people tend not to use or that you don't really need on an internal wiki.

[geni]

Wiki markup tends to be particular to whatever wiki it is you're working on.

In my experience with Wikipedia so far, for what it's worth, tags are included in double curly brackets. For example, to make a [citation needed] tag, you use {{cite}}.

Those are template calls more than tags. [citation needed] is actualy generaly produced by adding {{Fact}} which calls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Fact. So it won't do anything unless you have that template on your wiki.


External links are single square brackets in the form [http://www.site.com/ nameyouwanttogivethelink] and internal links are double square brackets in the form [[articlename|nameyouwanttogivethelink]].

Other than that, things tend to be pretty intuitive, for example using asterisks to make bullet lists.[/QUOTE]

[geni]

Are there any useable freeware "what you see is what you get" editors available for wiki markup?


Mediawiki WYSIWYG editor? It's generaly though to be imposible. Things that come close can be found at:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor