Wikitext

A Guide to Using MediaWiki in a Hosted Environment

An instructional website by the developer of mh370wiki.net - a MediaWiki site about Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

As a MediaWiki website developer you have a choice: use Wikitext, or html tags, or a combination of both.

The mh370wiki.net uses no Wikitext. All content is formatted using html and css.

A Wikitext Example

I imported some Tooltips from the mh370wiki.net website to use as examples in the Tooltips page. The definition of acronym had been converted to wikitext. Below I show two versions:-

;acronym
:A word formed by taking letters from each word in a phrase or series of words. For example ''radar'' is an acronym formed from the words ''ra''dio ''d''etecting ''a''nd ''r''anging.
:A word formed by taking letters from each word in a phrase or series of words. For example <i>radar</i> is an acronym formed from the words <i>ra</i>dio <i>d</i>etecting <i>a</i>nd <i>r</i>anging.

Both versions work with the extension Lingo. I prefer the one with a recognisable tag for italic, but it depends what one is accustomed to...

Update: I changed formatting to bold instead. It now looks like this - acronym.

A Tooltip is some additional information which appears on the screen when the cursor or mouse pointer is placed over some text which is faintly underlined.

A word formed by taking letters from each word in a phrase or series of words. For example radar is an acronym formed from the words radio detecting and ranging.