Format Guidelines for PSUGCAL

These are guidelines to making PSUGCal.org pages look consistent and to help with Wiki formatting in general. For more complete WikiMedia formatting help, visit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

Page Names and Titles

Pages will automatically inherit the page name as their title. If you're creating a new page, choose a name with that in mind. The pages will automatically alphabetize in the Content Directory, so choose names that users would logically expect to find in an alphabetical sort. Bad=Examples of sqlReports. Good=sqlReports.
Examples:

• Customization
• Health
• GPA

Adding pages to the Content Directory

To automatically have a page be listed in the Content Directory, add this code to any part of your page:

[[Category:Contents]]

Basic Formatting

Code	Result
''italic''	italic
'''bold'''	bold
'''''bold and italic'''''	bold and italic
<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>	no ''markup''
Single line breaks are ignored. <no wiki>Use the html tag </nowiki> for single line breaks.	Single line breaks are ignored. Use the html tag for single line breaks.

Headings

Wiki pages look best when organized with headings, like the one above this line. Use at most Level 2 and Level 3 headers. (Consider the Title of the Page Level 1). Here is the wiki code for creating the headings:

Code	Result
== Heading Level 2 == Some text here === Heading Level 3 === Some more text here	Heading Level 2 Some text here Heading Level 3 Some more text here

A page with 4 or more headings will automatically create a table of contents

Bullets and Numbering

Code	Result
* For bullets start each line * with an asterisk (*). ** More asterisks give deeper *** and deeper levels.	For bullets start each line with an (*). More asterisks give deeper and deeper levels.
# Start each line # with a number sign (#). ## More number signs give deeper ### and deeper ### levels.	Start each line with a number sign (#). More number signs give deeper and deeper levels.

Links

Description	Code	Result
Internal Link	[[Main Page]] [[Main Page|Alternate Link Text]]	Main Page Alternate Link Text
Bare External Link	http://www.psugcal.org	http://www.psugcal.org
External Link with Link Text Note the single bracket and the space between the link and the link text	[http://www.psugcal.org PSUGCal.org]	PSUGCal.org

For consistency, most links will display best as a bullet item, with the link followed by a description. So for this:

• PSUGCal.org - Home of the California PowerSchool User Groups.

Type this:

* [http://www.psugcal.org PSUGCal.org] - Home of the California PowerSchool User Groups.

Posting Code

Use <pre>Insert Code here</pre> to post code. Example:

<script>
$j(function() {
    /* place the family id row at the beginning of the table */
    $j("table:first").prepend($j("#familyidrow"));
....

Tables

The "Advanced" toolbar in the editor can help with table formatting. But here is an example:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Header text !! Header text !! Header text
|-
| Example || Example || Example
|-
| Example || Example || Example
|}

Will produce this:

Header text	Header text	Header text
Example	Example	Example
Example	Example	Example

Files

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