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MediaWiki page editing hints

Ken Manheimer edited this page Apr 7, 2014 · 1 revision

Most of our SpiderOakMobileClient wiki pages are in MediaWiki format, which is not recognized/handled by GitHub's in-browser editing controls. (GitHub handles many wiki page formats, but only provides the in-browser editing controls for the default format, Markdown.) That makes it crucial to have some references for MediaWiki formatting and other features:

To complicated matters a little, GitHub doesn't implement all the documented MediaWiki features, but it does implement a whole lot.

Another important hint is to use the Preview button to examine attempts to do things - you can use lots of trial and error to get something working, without any undue consequences.