Very Messy Example

Example Development

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Description	documenting a generic tool/artpiece
License	GPL
Author	User:Example_User
Contributors
Based-on	Sui Generis
Categories	Examples, Has Files, Missing Files
CAD Models
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This page represents an example development page and showcases many features that can be used in creating new development pages.

This page is a tutorial and resource for creating a new page This page is a tutorial and resource for creating a new page in this wiki. See how things are done, see basic layout strategies, use its code (click "Edit") as a copy & paste template.

Actually Creating the Page

Admittedly, actually creating a new page (the place where you put your contents in), isn't exactly obvious. There are two ways:

Red Link

Instead of creating the page first, just link to it (from another page) as if it'd already exist. The link will be created and it'll be red. Clicking on the red link will offer you to create the page.

This is the way Mediawiki developers had in mind when designing this wiki software. The idea is simple and straightforward for an encyclopedia: while writing contents, just make a link for every interesting term. This way you either get these pages linked, or a red link, encouraging others to create the page. And all pages become automatically interconnected, no loose ends. Collaboration at it's best!

Is the RepRap wiki an encyclopedia? Yes, definitely! With emphasis on 3D printers, related technical knowledge, build instructions and user activity, of course.

Search for the page

The other way is to search for the (non-existing) page. Type the desired page name into the search field, hit search and you'll see similar pages as well as a red link to create the page.

Forum Integration

Forum/Mailing List

Embedding Pictures

Pictures (often) express more than a thousand words! Here are three of the most common ways to view them to the user. To see how it's done, view this pages' source code by hitting the Edit button above.

Pictures as side notes

A short description goes here.

The most basic way to embed pictures is to add them as a thumbnail. Clicking onto them shows them bigger. Typically used in instructions, because there you usually have quite some text, too.

As most browsers wrap text around thumbnails, you likely want to put in a {{Clear}} before continuing with the next chapter. This ensures the next chapter starts on a new line.

Pictures in a gallery

If you have a real lot of pictures and not more than a few words of text for them, using a gallery is a good idea:

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  First picture.

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  Second picture.

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  Third picture.

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  Fourth picture.

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  And so on ...

Pictures in a Table

As an intermediate between the above two, you can use a table to focus on a number of pictures:

If you add a "thumb", you can still make the picture large, but also add some descriptive text.	"center" makes sure pictures align by their centers in such a picture-table.
	On how to do all this, see source code of this section.

Embedding Videos

This wiki provides the EmbedVideo extension. Basically, use this line:

{{#ev:service|id|dimensions|alignment|description|container|urlargs|autoresize|valignment}}

and remove the unused parts. For example, this code:

{{#ev:vimeo|5202148|480x360|center}}

embeds a video like this:

For more details on formatting and supported services (YouTube, etc.), see the extension's page.

Text

You want text, of course. Pictures should be understood. See how large amounts look like:

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Forum thread?

http://forums.reprap.org/

Text

Text text text text Example text text text! I, (Example_User) made it because it's cool and Interesting, because I made it with a RepRap, text text text text text text text text innovative new RepRap. Share and Enjoy! (This page was made using the wiki page Example as a model.) text text text text text text text text.

Image Example

This is a thumbnail

Related Projects

Text text text text New Example. Another Example text text text text text text text text.

Sub Assemblies and Related

Text text text text Example/SubAssembly and Related Example text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text.

Downloads

• File:Uploaded files example.zip
• File:Even more example files.zip
• File:Example part.stl
• File:Other example part.stl

Photos and Drawings

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  Captioned

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  Links can be put in captions.

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  Full MediaWiki
  syntax may now be used…

More Examples

• Flickr Example
• Video Example

Huge Image

Really big example images with lots of descriptive text are a fun part of documentation.

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May contain scaffolding.

This page may contain "scaffolding" - mediawiki text from the Example page that may not need to be there. It may help to delete the parts that you don't need. (more details)