Quick guide

Welcome to the new Amtwiki. A lot of you have done a ton of work in setting up info in the PhpWiki, and I thank you all, the process of moving to MediaWiki is labor intensive but there are some definite benefits, including:

• Templates
• Tracking accounts - (many wanted to know about who vandalized a page)
• Watch - gain the ability to know when someone updates your page or any other page
• My Contributions - be able to see all you've edited

and much more.

Anyway, the Conversion Tool is something I whipped up to help, it does some of the basic conversions for you, but it isn't perfect.

Key differences between PHPWiki and MediaWiki:

• Internal Links: PHPWiki used single brackets, MediaWiki uses double brackets. The conversion tool does these for you. Titles can be split off by a pipe | character, but are opposite of phpwiki. It goes [[link|title]].
  • Example: The Front Page is done by [[Main Page|The Front Page]]
• External Links: Both use single brackets. However if you use the conversion tool, it will convert these too, so you will have to change them back, as it doesn't knowt he difference (and generally there are a lot more internal links than eternal, so I went with this way).
  • Example: [1] is done by [http://www.amtgardinc.com]
• External Images - external images are listed directly with NO brackets.
  • Example: was simply http://agh2o.org/pix/blicon.gif
• Internal Images - If you use the image button above you can link to an internal image, even if it doesn't exist yet. Clicking on the link of the image will prompt you to upload it. There are many advantages of doing this, including the ability to specify the image size. by putting a pipe | after an image link I can specify the size in pixels I want it to display as. A user can always then click on the image to see it full size.
  • Example: was done with [[Image:wecoronation.jpg|100px]] .