Wiki Tips

Undo
What do you do when you have covered up the edit this page box and you can't get back in to correct the page? You have edit tab at the very top of the page next to talk and history.

If you cover up the save button at the bottom of the page, Click the History tab the top of the page and do a "updo."

Finding coding problems
Here is another way to find where coding problems might exist in an article. Type the coding comment tags at the beginning and end of the problem article like so:.

When you save the page, the page will be blank, but do not panic the coding is still there. Next move the opening comment <!-- tag down the page to maybe the next paragraph and then save. The material above the <!-- will appear again.

If there are no problems in the reappeared material, keep moving the <!-- tag down the page and keep saving until the error shows itself.

You now know where the problem is. After you have fixed the problem, be sure to remove the comment tags.

Hot Keys
HOT Keys Having a hard time being able to place your curer in the exact spot to highlight something for copying and pasting? Try this. Put your curer near to the material you want to copy and paste. Then use the right or left arrow keys to get to the place you want to start highlighting. When you arrive at that spot, PRESS the SHIFT KEY and then press the arrow key again. As you keep the SHIFT KEY depressed and hit the arrow keys, you will notice that it will be begin highlighting letters. Keep pressing the arrow key to highlight all you want. By using the Up and Down arrow keys, you highlight sentences. For a complete list of other hot keys see: http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/1738-comprehensive-lis… Message Body

More on Hot Keys
More Hot Keys: Ever closed a tab by mistake? It is a pain to have to reopen and find the place you left off. Take heart. Hit the Ctrl and Shift key along with the letter "t" and it will magically reappear again.

Have you deleted something in the wiki and realized that was a mistake? Take heart again. Hit the Ctrl key along with the letter "z" key and it too, will magically reappear.

Still more on Hot Keys
More on Hot Keys: Want to magnify the screen you are looking at? Instead of looking for the three lines in the upper right hand corner of the tool bar and clicking on it and then clicking of the percentage of magnification, just hold down the Ctrl key and tap the + plus sign key above the = sign. It will enlarge itself. If you want to reduce it, hold down the Ctrl key and tap the - sign next to the 0 key. It will then reduce in size.

Missing Div tags
In the last contributor meeting, Jane Colmenares said that missing tags were “vain of her existence.” She was referring to the difficulty of finding missing or tags in articles that can really mess up page. It might be for you as well. You can use Ctr F to find all the div tags but it will not help you find matching pairs opening and closing tags. Here is a suggestion to try that might help you find them a little easier: Download a free software program called Notepad++. I works just like Notepad which comes with your windows program. Put these four lines of code on a new page in Notepad++. Then save this page with a name you can remember with a “html” extension like so: “some name.html.” You will use it more than once. Next, download the page in Wikitext code you are having problems with between the tags. Then, highlight the you think might have a missing tag. If it’s counterpart exists, you will notice that the it will be highlighted at the same time. If it counterpart is way down the page you may have to scroll down the page to find it. If you don’t find one, that is the tag that is missing its. The same procedure can be used for all tags. « collapse