Editing Wiki Articles

 

• 1How to Create/Edit an Article
• 2Creating Links to Wiki Articles
• 3Creating URL Hyperlinking
• 4Adding Headlines
• 5Highlight Text
• 6Table of Contents
• 7Bulleted Lists
• 8DIV BB Code
• 9SPAN BB Code
• 10Footnote
• 11Keywords
• 12Showthreads
• 13More BB Codes

[top]How to Create/Edit an Article

How to Create a New Wiki Article

Anyone that is a registered user of WORLD Law Direct can create or edit Wiki articles, so join in and help make this a great user-fed information resource. The moderators will help keep the structure organized, but feel free to add to anything here.

Note that Wiki article titles are automatically hot linked into the forums, so try to choose concise names for new articles. The article name will lead people from the forums back to the Wiki articles.

Create New Article ... You have to be registered before you can create or edit WLD Wiki Articles.

How to Update Wiki Article

ONLY the first post in an article can be edited. To edit it, simply click on the edit button at the bottom right.

If someone edits the article while you are editing it, you will have to reload the editing page.

The WLD Wiki is still very new and so it's a great time to jump in and start updating it and learning how to use it. You really can't mess anything up, because all revisions are stored and can be rolled back by a moderator, so play away and you can help make this a great resource for WORLDLawDirect visitors.

[top]Creating Links to Wiki Articles

You can create links to wiki articles through the use of the Wiki BB Code. The following example will create a link to a wiki article named 'Wiki FAQ'.

[wiki]Wiki FAQ[/wiki]

Example output:
Wiki FAQ

If the article to which the link points does not exist, the link is shown in red color.

[top]Creating URL Hyperlinking

The URL tag allows you to link to other websites and files. You can include an optional parameter to 'name' your link.

Usage:

[url]value[/url]
[url=Option]value[/url]

Example Usage:

[url]http://www.worldlawdirect.com/forum[/url]
[url=http://www.worldlawdirect.com/forum]WORLD Law Direct Forums[/url]

Example Output:
http://www.worldlawdirect.com/forum
WORLD Law Direct Forums

[top]Adding Headlines

You can add headlines and sub-headlines to a wiki article by using the following wiki BB codes:

Note: Please do not use [h1] and [h2] code attributes, those are used for the main headline of the articles.

[h3]headline text[/h3]
[h4]headline text[/h4]
[h5]headline text[/h5]

[top]Highlight Text

The HIGHLIGHT BB code allows you to emphasize your text.

[highlight]this text is highlighted[/highlight]

Example Output:
this text is highlighted

[top]Table of Contents

If an article has 4 or more headlines (headers), a table of contents with links to the different sections is added at the top of the article. You can see an example of the table of contents at the top of this article.

Note: You must use [h1] [h2] [h3] etc. BB code attributes for headers to create the table of contents.

[top]Bulleted Lists

The [list] tag allows you to create simple, bulleted lists without specifying an option. Within the value portion, each bullet is denoted by the[*] tag.

Example Usage:

[list]
[*] list item 1
[*] list item 2
[*] list item 3
[/list]

Example Output:

• list item 1
• list item 2
• list item 3

[top]DIV BB Code

The DIV BB Code allows greater flexibility in editing WLD wiki articles.

The syntax is as follows:

[div=css styles]content[/div]

Where css styles is a semi-color ( separated list of CSS Styles.

For example:

[div=color: red; font-weight: bold; border: 2px dashed blue; background: #FFFFC0; width:50%; text-align:center]This is some text[/div]

Will produce:
 

This is some text

[top]SPAN BB Code

The SPAN BB Code complements the DIV BB Code for inline elements.

The syntax is as follows:

[span=css styles]content[/span]

[top]Footnote

The FOOTNOTE BB Code is used to add footnotes to a Wiki Article. Whenever a FOOTNOTE BB Code is found, it is replaced by a footnote index enclosed in square brackets (e.g. [3]), which links to the corresponding footnote that is listed at the end of the article.

The Syntax for the FOOTNOTE BB Code is:

[footnote]footnote text[/footnote]

[top]Keywords

The KEYWORDS BB Code can be used to specify extra keywords related to a Wiki Article. These keywords are displayed in a smaller font, and somewhat grayed out.

[keywords]keyword list[/keywords]

[top]Showthreads

Using the SHOWTHREADS BB code will add a list of the latest thread from a forum into a wiki article.

The syntax for SHOWTHREADS is as follows:

[showthreads=count]forumid[/showthreads]

Where:

• count is the number of threads to list, if not specified, 10 threads are shown.
• forumid is the forum id from where to list threads, if not specified, the latest thread in the forum are shown.

Here is an example:

[showthreads=3]24[/showthreads]

Will produce:
 

[top]More BB Codes

To see the most commonly used BB codes click on the link below...
http://www.worldlawdirect.com/forum/misc.php?do=bbcode