Do you want to create not just another publicpictures and music, but a really interesting community with useful content? Then you just need to know how to create a wiki page. And today we will learn to do this.
What is wiki markup for?
In fact, the use cases dozens.For example, in Wikipedia with the help of this markup language all the articles are made out. The site "VKontakte" also supports the creation of wiki-pages: with their help you can create a menu of the group or create a large article, where the text is interspersed with photos, videos and other materials.
Unlike regular posts, here you havemuch more options for formatting: adding headers, bold or italic, any images, links, etc. And if you want, you can even make a full-fledged mini-site.
Now let's talk about how to create a wiki page.
Step 1: learn the group ID and create a new page
First you need to get the ID of your group or public. In most cases, instead of a numerical combination, beautiful URLs are used. You can get an ID by opening the community statistics:
We proceed to the next stage. How do I create a wiki page for a group? In fact, you just need to enter a new link in the address bar of the browser. It looks like this:
Instead of XXXX we enter the ID of our community, and instead of"Name_page" - actually the name that we came up with. Then press Enter. A new wiki page will automatically be created, and the text "Fill content" appears on the screen.
Step 2: create a post
Perhaps this is the simplest thing you can do with the Wiki markup language.
With the functionality of the visual editor anyone who worked at least in the banal Notepad will understand. Quick access to the panel has all the main functions:
- the outline of the text (bold / oblique);
- alignment (left, right, center);
- bulleted list;
- adding headers H1-H3;
- highlighting quotes;
- adding links;
- adding multimedia (photo, video, audio).
Step 3: Publish
So, you already know how to create a wiki page."In contact with". It remains only to publish it in your community. In order for subscribers to see the link, it is better to immediately prepare a nice cover. It is desirable that the picture was a link or a call to click on the "View" button below.
Useful "chips"
Basically, to understand how to createstandard type wiki page, a visual editor is more than enough. In addition, at any time, you can click on the "Preview" button and see how your post will look after publication. Another thing, if you need to make a beautiful and convenient menu to navigate through the group. Here you will need basic knowledge of the markup language itself.
Photo wrapping
If you want the image to be not in the center of the page between two paragraphs, but to the side of the text, you need to add a caption | right or | left in the code of the picture itself.
Spoilers
Anyone interested in how to create a wiki page"VKontakte" is worth remembering another very useful tag - Hider. With it, you can make hidden blocks in which information is opened on a click.
Anchors
This is very convenient if you are publishing a bulkarticle with a large number of headings and subsections. Then at the very top of the page you can make a table of contents so that the user can instantly go to the block of interest. All you need is to enter the exact title of the title after the grid, and the text of the link after the forward line.
Tables
They can be used not only for their intended purpose, but also to accurately arrange any information. Including to create a menu with icons. There are only a few basic tags:
- {| - the beginning of the table;
- | + - title;
- | - - new line;
- | - new cell;
- ! - the selected cell (with a darkened background);
- |} - the end of the table.
The cells themselves can contain any information - text, images, video, documents. In practice, it looks like this:
Graphic menu
Perhaps this is the coolest thing you can doknowing how to create a wiki page. In fact, nothing complicated, but you have to tinker with thinking through the layout and cutting of images. For the menu to be displayed correctly, it is necessary to accurately observe the dimensions, focusing on the width of 510 or 504 px. If you want the photos to be "glued together" with each other, you need to add a caption to the image code; nopadding.
And if you use the parameter insteadnoborder, then the distance between the pictures will be 6 px. Then the total width of all photos in a row is calculated using the formula 510-6 * N (N is the number of images in a row).
Similar tags and symbols are used on all resources where the creation of wiki pages is supported.
