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Adding Excel spreadsheets to this wiki
Procedure:
 * Sort your spreadsheet to display what you wish to display
 * Save the spreadsheet as a CSV file
 * Go to this site CSV Converter or search for another compatible site that will convert CSV to WikiMedia format
 * Upload the CSV file into the converter
 * Ensure that the "Separator Character" is set to Other and type in the pipe character |
 * In the "Convert Linebreaks in Cells" click on Replace with space
 * Click on "Convert to MediaWiki"
 * Copy and paste to the wiki page

Adding Mathematical formulae to this wiki
Please click on this link: Mathematics on this wiki to go to another page. The information on it was copied from the mediawiki website.

Uploading files to this wiki
Please Note - Restrict your file size to 15kB This will speed up page rendering!

At the moment, only graphics file upload ais enable on this wiki. Currently the file-types that will be accepted by the server are .jpg .png and  .ogg. These are stored in the wiki database. Should there be enough demand, it is possible to enable other file types.

Guidelines: When naming your files for upload, please use the following syntax yourusername_filename.extension for example VK4YEH_radio1.jpg

This will streamline uploads and ensure that files with the same name are unlikely to occur.

When linking files on pages use the following syntax ,

For example this code

adds the following image to the text.

Please click on "edit' to check the syntax if you need to.

Adding your uploaded images to your text
Typically you would upload an image file to the wiki  ...before you use the following wiki text to place the image on an article:

Syntax
The full syntax for displaying an image is: Where options can be zero or more of the following, separated by pipes:
 * ,, or  : Controls how the image is formatted
 * ,,  ,  : Controls the alignment of the image on the page
 * : Resizes the image to the given width in pixels
 * Special cases:
 * : displays the specified page when showing a djvu file.
 * : displays the specified page when showing a djvu file.

The options can be given in any order. If a given option does not match any of the other possibilities, it is assumed to be the caption text. Caption text can contain wiki links or other formatting.

Other files
You can link to an external file using the same syntax used for linking to an external web page. Or with different text:

This is enabled on this wiki, so you can also embed external images. To do that, simply insert the image's url:

Gallery of images
It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails with the  tag. The syntax is:

using html
The simplest way to add a table is to use HTML coding. This table:

is created by this html code:



using wiki markup
Below is wiki markup for a simple table, and the corresponding table created by it:

{|style = width:55" border = "1"
 * Heading 1||Heading 2||Heading 3
 * row 1 cell 1||row 1 cell 2||row cell 3
 * row 2 cell 1||row 2 cell2||row 2 cell3
 * row 3 cell 1||row 3 cell 2||row 3 cell3
 * |}
 * row 3 cell 1||row 3 cell 2||row 3 cell3
 * |}
 * |}
 * |}