Help

There is a very complete help here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents
This site only gives very basic advice for very basic issues.

There also are some tutorials; as of 2023, we have published only two of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDSPUM2cKyM (5 min) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAiR6htX-j8 (15 min).

Discussions

Every page has a discussion page ("Discussion" beingt highlighted blue, or in red when the page is still empty). Click on "+ new topic" in the upper right corner to start a discussion, or "[ reply ]" below existing posts to reply to others. Please do not use "edit source" on discussion pages.

Create a Page

To create a page, the easiest way is first to create a link: choose "edit", highlight the word(s) you want to contain the link, then click on the "link" icon (next to the "bullet list" icon), and enter the URL; save the change, and you should see that the word(s) in question are either blue (if the page already exists) or red (if not).

To create the page, simply click on the red link, start editing, and do not forget to save your changes. Done!

Insert links

Inserting links is both important and easy. In addition to the instruction right below, there also is a tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAiR6htX-j8.

Edit modus

The quickest way to insert a link is simply by turning on the edit mode. So go to the page you want to edit, choose "edit", highlight the word(s) you want to contain the link, then click on the "link" icon (next to the "bullet list" icon). A menue will open. There are two options:

• To insert an internal link (to a Clavis Wiki page, e.g. the description of a collection), enter the page name; a drop-down menue will suggest titles of existing pages as you type; simply select the respective title and confirm.

• To insert an external link (any pages outside the Clavis Wiki), enter the URL in the same menue.

In any case, use "save changes" in upper right corner, and confirm when prompted.

Edit source modus

If you insert many links and want to control all options, you may find the "edit source" modus convenient.Inserting external links is easy:

• If you simply type (or copy&paste) a URL, this will create a link. Easy!
• The URL has to start with https:// - if not, there will be no link see example no. 2 below.
• If you place the URL between square brackets, the link will have a running number as its name (see example no. 3).
• If you want the link to have a link text (so the ugly URL is no immediately visible), enter a space after the URL (no. 4).
• If you forget the space, your link name will be ignored (example no. 5).
• You can insert canon-specific links to the Clavis database. The easiest way is to copy&paste the URL from your browser. Note that "context" refers to how many entries before and after the canon are displayed. The key is part of the URL and also a good link name, so insert a space and the key at the end. See no. 6 below.

Internal links

• Internal links are links within this Clavis Wiki, e.g. from the description to one collection to that of another one.
• Internal links are enclosed in double (!) square brackets, with the optional link text separate with a "|" (no space needed). If no site exists, placing a term between double square brackets will create a page of that name.

Examples:

1. https://www.mgh.de/de results in: https://www.mgh.de/de
   
2. www.mgh.de results in: www.mgh.de
   
3. [https://www.mgh.de/de] and [https://www.dmgh.de/] results in: [1] and [2]
   
4. [https://www.mgh.de/de MGH] results in: MGH
   
5. [[Cresconius, Concordia canonum|Cresconius, ''Concordia canonum'']] results in: Cresconius, Concordia canonum (internal link with formatting)
6. [https://beta.mgh.de/databases/clavis/db/search?context=3&key=DU01.090 DU01.090] results in: DU01.090

Links to categories

• If you want to link to a category (not add the article in question to a category!), place a colon (":") before "Category". This will create a link, so e.g. [[:Category:Wishlist MSS Digitization]] gives :Category:Wishlist MSS Digitization. If you only insert ""[[Category ...", the relevant page will be placed in the category you name, and a link will appear not in the article itself but on the side bar.