Sandbox

The goal of this page is to help you edit a media-wiki page. (Media-wiki is the software used on this page and at Wikipedia.)

Two Modes: page / edit

In page mode, you see what a visitor sees. In edit mode you see the page with formatting codes.

Please enter edit mode by changing tabs from "page" to "edit" above (next to the picture, at the top). You may look at history mode too, if you wish.
If you see "view source" and not "edit" you are not logged in.

To understand the next part you must be in edit mode!

In fact, you may want to switch back and forth between page and edit modes!

switch = basculer

Edit mode

Using the edit box buttons

Under the title of the page Sandbox (bac à sable) you should see 11 buttons (the first two are B and I

• B = bold (French gras)
• I = italic
• Ab = internal link to a page like Poetry
• earth = external link to a page like [1]
• A = an automatic heading: not very useful if you master the = sign (see below)
• picture = to add a file (may not work yet)
• trumpet = media file (may not work yet)
• square root of n: math (formulae, special symbols)
• For non-formatted text
• (signature) Here's mine: --teacher 16:59, 30 March 2015 (CEST)
• can you delete this line and add your signature?
• horizontal line...

Feel free to play, don't worry if you make a mistake.
You can't break the wiki.
Well, ok, maybe you can break it if you really try, but don't try, ok? ^^

You can type here:

to understand the next part you must be in Page mode!

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Using HTML

• <p> = opening tag for a paragraph, </p> = closing tag for a paragraph
• <span> = opening tag for a chunk of text, </span> = closing tag for a chunk of text
• <span style="color:darkgreen;"> = opening tag to color a chunk of text green, </span> = closing tag for the chunk of green text
  

• <br /> = opening and closing tag for a line break.

• <b> <i> <u> = opening tags for bold, italics, underline . . . </b> </i> </u> = closing tags for bold, italics, underline

Feel free to switch back and forth between Edit and Page mode for the next sections.

example

This is a very short paragraph
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
with two line breaks and twenty-two pink dots.

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Using wiki syntax

The number (#) sign

1. To make a numbered list...
2. Use # at the beginning of the line.
   1. To add a layer, use two!
   2. You can even do it twice.
      1. or even three times
3. That's how you make a numbered list.

The asterisk (*)

• To make a "bullet" list..
• Use an asterisk (*) at the start of the line.
  • To add a layer, use two!
    • or three.
• Pretty simple, huh?

The equal (=) sign

                              equal = 'i: kwəl           equality = i: 'kwal ɪ ti

• The equal sign (=) is not used to mark equality in wiki syntax.
  • Just as the # and * signs are used to mark the hierarchy of a list
  • = is used to add structure to the document.

• Please look at the table of contents in "page" mode. Click on hide, then show.
• Return to edit mode and delete the asterisks at the beginning of the six lines below:

• =Heading 1=
• ==Heading 2==
• ===Heading 3===
• ====Heading 4====
• =Heading 1=
• =Heading 1=

Return to page mode. How does the table of contents look now?

The apostrophe (')

                     apostrophe(s) = ə pa: strə fi:(z)

can also be used for

• bold (3 apostrophes before and after)
• italic (2 apostrophes before and after)