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'''How can I indent paragraphs?'''  
 
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Create a new page in your wiki called MediaWiki:Common.css. On my wiki, its address is
 
Create a new page in your wiki called MediaWiki:Common.css. On my wiki, its address is
 
https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css
 
https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css
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'''How can I add to the editing menu so I can do quotations and make quotations be indented with a smaller font?'''  
 
'''How can I add to the editing menu so I can do quotations and make quotations be indented with a smaller font?'''  
  Use a "template" for this. A template is a file like Template:Quotation that is a page on your wiki. Once you create a page that starts "Template:xxxx",  whenever a page on your wiki has the command {{xxx| here is some text}}, the phrase "here is some text" will be formatted according to whatever commands are on the Template:xxxx page.  
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Use a "template" for this. A template is a file like Template:Quotation that is a page on your wiki. Once you create a page that starts "Template:xxxx",  whenever a page on your wiki has the command {{xxx| here is some text}}, the phrase "here is some text" will be formatted according to whatever commands are on the Template:xxxx page.  
  
  

Revision as of 19:34, 23 September 2020

How can I insert images? Insert $wgRawHtml = true; into the file LocalSettings.php in your main MediaWiki directory and the wiki will allow you to insert raw unchecked HTML. However, you must embed your html within the ... tags so that MediaWiki can differentiate it.


Add the following entry to LocalSettings.php file in order to open external links in a new window / tab.

$wgExternalLinkTarget = '_blank';

I asked about this at hte help desk.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgExternalLinkTarget#Can_internal_links_be_made_to_open_in_new_windows%3F


How can I indent paragraphs?

Create a new page in your wiki called MediaWiki:Common.css. On my wiki, its address is https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css That page should consist of the CSS HTML command

 P { text-indent: 2em }
Put  Mediawiki:common.css on your main page, or wherever you  want to use for your administrator page so you can easily find it again. 

How can I insert a divider line? Use 4 dashes


How can I stop viewers from editing my pages?

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; #anonymous users cannot edit $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; #no new self-registered users

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_creation


How can I put in a comment?

<!-- This is a comment -->

How can I add to the editing menu so I can do quotations and make quotations be indented with a smaller font?

Use a "template" for this. A template is a file like Template:Quotation that is a page on your wiki. Once you create a page that starts "Template:xxxx", whenever a page on your wiki has the command Template:Xxx, the phrase "here is some text" will be formatted according to whatever commands are on the Template:xxxx page.


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for multipline preformatted text.

http://tmbw.net/wiki/Basic_Wiki_Formatting