Help:Wiki tips
Stub
This wiki is built using MediaWiki, the same engine that powers Wikipedia. It has evolved to handle a variety of editor needs and has a lot of a lot of built-in functionality.
This page provides tips and links to help you unlock the potential of the interface.
Keyboard shortcuts
This wiki has an extensive range of keyboard shortcuts.
For example, if you want to create a second-level heading, you can use ctrl/cmd+2. You can insert links with ctrl/cmd+k.
A full reference for the keyboard shortcuts can be found in the MediaWiki documentation.
Visual editor
The visual editor is the default editor, which helps users to edit the wiki without needing to know wiki syntax.
As well as simplifying the editing experience, the visual editor also provides a range of convenience features.
Typing \ opens a command menu, where you can, for example, quickly inserts templates, tabs, and other elements. Typing ctrl/cmd+/ opens a keyboard shortcut reference.
MediaWiki provides a user guide for the visual editor.
Source editor
The source editor allows you to edit wikitext directly. Pages in some namespaces can only be edited with the source editor. Thes source editor can also be useful if you observe some weird rendering issues and want to troubleshoot.
The source editor uses CodeMirror, which includes some nice features. For example, you can generate syntax using markup. ctrl/cmd+b, for example, will generate '''Bold''' and highlight "Bold" for replacement.
CodeMirror also supports multiple cursors. Hold ctrl/cmd and left click in different places to place your cursor at multiple points in the text.
Mediawiki provides a user guide for editing with CodeMirror.
Track quality issues
There are a number of special templates, including Template:Stub, which can be used to track quality issues on the wiki.
If you see a page that you think is a stub, add the template at the top of the page. This then automatically adds the page as an entry in the stub pages tracking category, which everyone can use to identify stub pages that can be expanded.
All tracking categories relating to quality are indexed in quality control page, which is an excellent resource for editors and maintainers.