View source for Electowiki:The electowiki handbook

Electowiki runs on the MediaWiki engine, just like Wikipedia and many other wikis, so for help with basic markup and editing, you can consult existing pages on those topics:

* [[Mw:Help:Contents|MediaWiki help contents]]
* Wikipedia's [[W:Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing|Editing tutorial]]

The rest of this page is for help with Electowiki-specific features (or lack thereof).

== Automatic citations ==
Wikipedia has the ability to automatically generate a citation from a unique identifier.  We don't have that functionality (yet?), so your options are:

# Enter your URL or unique identifier into [https://tools.wmflabs.org/citer/citer.fcgi Citer] and it will generate wiki markup for a citation that you can copy and paste into the article.
# Open [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|Wikipedia's Sandbox]] and use their citation generator tool to create a citation, then copy and paste into the article.  Copying from VisualEditor to VisualEditor works.
# Fill out the citation template manually

== Images ==
Images can be included directly from [[c:Main page|Wikimedia Commons]] and [[Commons:Main Page|Miraheze Commons]], or uploaded locally.  If your image would be useful outside the wiki, too, and is available under a Commons-compatible license, you are encouraged to [[c:Commons:Upload|upload it there instead]].  Wikimedia Commons' scope is for all "educational media content".
<gallery>
Chickendilemma.png|A file uploaded locally to Electowiki
File:STAR Voting sample ballot.png|A file from Wikimedia Commons
Pool in Lunfeng Elementary School.jpg|A file from Miraheze Commons
</gallery>
Non-local files have a link at the top of the image description page that will take you to the original upload site.