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This site is powered by MediaWiki, a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website.
On a wiki, it is customary to allow readers to edit content and structure. Currently, I allow the anonymous visitors to view this wiki, but the editing rights are restricted to a limited number of my colleagues and collaborators. I remain the principal contributor of content to this wiki.
MediaWiki has a wiki markup language, known as wikitext, that allows many common HTML tags; it is intended to provide a simple, reliable syntax to allow users to use it without knowing HTML.
For the benefit of the users entitled to edit the pages of this wiki, I provide a number of references to 'external' sources of information on wikitext and some general information on MediaWiki.
Quick Tips
- To edit the navigation bar, normaly present on the left, simply go to http://www.bilokon.co.uk/finance/index.php/MediaWiki:Sidebar and select "Edit".
- To edit the titles in the navigation bar, such as Current Events, go to, e.g., http://www.bilokon.co.uk/finance/index.php/MediaWiki:currentevents.
- To change the URLs in the navigation bar, such as that for Current Events, go to, e.g., http://www.bilokon.co.uk/finance/index.php/MediaWiki:Currentevents-url.
Wikitext
The following links point to Wikipedia. Since this wiki is also powered by MediaWiki, it uses the same wikitext format, so most of the content is relevant (if not all; there may be local restrictions).
- MediaWiki Editing Help.
- MediaWiki Reference Card, a one page summary of important editing commands, intended to be printed out and used next to the computer.
- Wikitext examples.
- HTML in wikitext.
- HTML elements. An introduction to HTML.
MediaWiki
- MediaWiki website.
- MediaWiki FAQ. Very useful!
- Configuration settings list. Please note that currently I am the only person entitled to modify the configuration settings for this wiki.
- MediaWiki release mailing list.
