VideoLAN Wiki:Syntax
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The basics
This wiki uses the same general syntax as Wikipedia, because both use MediaWiki markup.
This wiki does not support the VisualEditor extension that Wikipedia does.
Familiarising yourself with wikimarkup is probably a good idea, and the convenient one-page summary of wiki syntax is provided at the English Wikipedia here. Anything you forget during editing can be looked up using the "Help" section of the Edit Toolbar (located immediately above the edit box).
VideoLAN wiki syntax
Though VideoLAN wiki inherits some of the functionality found on Wikipedia, not everything is quite the same.
If you are familiar at all with templates on Wikipedia, you've most definitely used {{cn}} to generate [citation needed]—no such template exists here; nor does {{broken link}}, {{which}}, {{update needed}}, {{clarification needed}}, and similar widgets that remark on information not being the clearest or most recent.
Rather, {{Check}} is the current way to mark text that needs checking, by displaying an in-line note and adding the page to the generic clean-up category Pages to check.
Additionally, a few things are handy to know:
- {{VLC}} displays and links to VLC media player
- {{VLC icon}} is a shorthand way to produce the image
- {{VLC:latest version}} will show the latest version of VLC (indispensable)
Best practices
TODO
Lists
TODO
Linking
TODO
Useful things
- to link to a Wikipedia article on "example", use [[Wikipedia:example]]
Editing tips
- Use the editing toolbar to help you; it provides buttons to help you out.
- Keep things simple, and don't be afraid to make mistakes.
- Adding a line after a sentence will not make the next bit appear on a new line: for the convenience of coders, it will appear on the same line. To get it on a different line, either use
<br>or two lines.
