wiki_z: Help

Welcome to my journal, the ^zhurnal! There's plenty of room for more, so don't be shy about adding your own contributions—within the bounds of good taste and civility. No advertisements, link spam, etc. are allowed here. Thank you!

You can edit most items via the "Edit this page" link at the bottom. See below for the Markup Syntax that lets you do bold, italics, tables, images, headers, lists, etc. See Spam Patrol for instructions on how to easily remove garbage pages and clean up messes that others may have inadvertently made.

If you don't see an "Edit this page" link then the ZhurnalyWiki has been temporarily locked due to an infestation of spam-bots. To become an editor, click on the Administration link at the bottom of the page, click on Password, enter the password "friend" (without quotes), and click the Save button. If your browser accepts the cookie, you're an editor! Welcome!

Contact me via z (at) his (dot) com or zhurnaly (at) gmail (dot) com to report bugs, suggest new thoughts, and comment on items if you prefer to do that via email rather than edit things directly.

Markup Syntax

Markup in the ZhurnalyWiki follows the Creole standard, plus a few simple extensions for sub- and super-scripts, blockquotes, etc.

markup	result	markup	result
`bold text`	bold text	`//italic text//`	italic text
`##Monospaced text##`	`Monospaced text`	`%%Small Caps Text%%`	Small Caps Text
empty line makes new paragraph	empty line makes new paragraph	`double backslashes\\force break`	double backslashes force break
`,,subscript,, and ^^superscript^^`	_subscript and ^superscript	`wiki link [[Markup Syntax]]`	wiki link Markup Syntax
`[[Markup Syntax\|link label text]]`	link label text	`http://zhurnaly.com`	http://zhurnaly.com
`[http://zhurnaly.com URL label text]`	URL label text	`[http://zhurnaly.com]`	[1]
`{{{ //escaped// [[NotLink]] }}}`	`//escaped// [[NotLink]]` (no markup interpretation)	`~http://zhurnaly.com`	http://zhurnaly.com (tilde = "escape character")

Lists

To make a bullet list:

Begin a list line
With an asterisk (*)
- Put multiple asterisks (** etc.)
- In front of sub-list items

To make a numbered list:

Begin a list line
With a number-sign (#)
1. Put multiple number-signs (## etc.)
2. In front of sub-list items

Rules, Headers, Tables

To make a horizontal rule, type four dashes (----) on a line alone, like:

To make a big header, type two equal signs at the beginning of a line in front of the header text, like ==Big Header .

Smaller Headers

To make smaller headers, type three to six equal signs at the beginning of a line in front of the header text, like ===Smaller Header, ====Still Smaller Header, etc.

Tables

To make a table:

Put pipe symbols	Like " `\|` "
Between table elements	On each row
And at the beginning and the end	Of every row

To make header lines on tables, use "|=" in front of each header element:

Like	This	Header	Line
Above	A	Regular	Table

Blockquotes

To make a blockquote:

put three double-quotes (""") on lines by themselves above and below the section

to be blockquoted

Redirection and Transclusion

To forward hits to a different ZhurnalyWiki page, put #REDIRECT [[New Page Name]] on the first line of the old page
To include (aka "transclude") the contents of another page, use <include "Page Name">

Definition Lists

To make a Definition List: begin a line with ; followed by the word(s) to be defined, and on the next line put : followed by the definition(s)

Local Links and Anchors

To create a local anchor named "Label" write [:Label]. This anchor can then be the target of a link to the page via the page's URL followed by "#Label", e.g., http://zhurnaly.com/cgi-bin/wiki/JFK_50_Miler_2008#Ken etc.

To create a wiki link to an anchor on the same page, e.g. "Top", write [[#Top]] = Top. Change the link text using a "|", e.g. [[#Top|go to the top]] = go to the top. To link to a local anchor on another page proceed similarly, e.g. [[JFK 50 Miler 2008#Ken]] = JFK 50 Miler 2008#Ken, and likewise change the link label with "|" as in [[JFK 50 Miler 2008#Ken|Ken's Report]] = Ken's Report.

Images

To insert an image, write its URL, as in http://zhurnaly.com/images/zh.gif =
To handle image labels and links, as per the Oddmuse Image Extension use pipes to separate image URL, label, and link URL, as in [[image:http://zhurnaly.com/images/Birds_Kennedy_Center_Terrace_Sunset.jpg_t.jpg|Birdy Sunset|http://zhurnaly.com/images/Birds_Kennedy_Center_Terrace_Sunset.jpg]] which results in the small thumbnail-image with label "Birdy Sunset" as a clickable link to the corresponding big image:

Administrators can upload images or other materials to ZhurnalWiki pages via a "Replace this page with file" link during page editing; image files can then be displayed via something like [[image:Image_Page_Name_Here]]

(correlates: BirdySunset, ZhurnalyWiki Software Update 2008, SandBox, ...)

Search

Put a word into the "Search:" field and hit <return> or the "Go!" button to search for pages that contain that word (ignoring upper/lower case distinctions, possibly embedded in a longer word). Put a phrase in quotes to search for that phrase. Put two or more words in to search for pages that include all those words, in any order.

Wild Cards and Regular Expression Search

Search is case-insensitive, but to make it case-sensitive prefix a search with "(?-i)". Page Name search treats underscores as spaces. You can put (some) wild cards into the Search field and use them to make more powerful searches (within a paragraph). As per [2] and [3]:

. * + ? | ( ) [ ] { } \ ^ $ — these are special characters; to search for one of them put a "backslash" ( " \ " ) in front of it (e.g., search for x\^2 to find x^2 )
| — the "pipe" or "vertical bar" symbol means "or"; use it to search for alternatives (e.g., search for apples|oranges to find apples or oranges)
[abc] — a "bracket expression" matches any of the characters inside it, in this case a or b or c ; a dash can be used for a range (e.g., [b-y] matches all lower-case characters except for a and z )
[^abc] — a " ^ " negates the bracket, so this expression matches any character except a or b or c
{m,n} — matches m to n (inclusive) instances of the previous character (or bracket expression)
. — a single character = {1,1}
* — 0 or more instances of the previous character = {0,}
? — 0 or 1 or instance of the previous character = {0,1}
+ — 1 or more instances of the previous character = {1,}
\n — a newline character
\w — a word character = an alphanumeric or underscore = [A-Za-z0-9_]
\W — a non-word character = [^A-Za-z0-9_]
\b — a word boundary
\d — a digit = [0-9]
\D — a non-digit = [^0-9]
\s — a whitespace character
\S — a non-whitespace character
\x20 — a hex $20 (ASCII "space")

(correlates: GovernmentJob, TreasureKnowledge, FreshwaterForgiveness, ...)