7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

4 The Core Functions
of MediaWiki
The following will illustrate the main functions of a wiki. This will
be done step by step, using the tab pages, which enable various types
of access to a respective page. Which tabs are visible and thus accessible
depends on your status within the wiki. Thus, registered users
and administrators have access to more functions than anonymous
users.
4.1
Editing
Readers
Authors
WikiAdmins
WebAdmins
When you click on the edit tab, the edit mode of an article is invoked;
that is, the text on the page is loaded along with the wikispecific
format characters (“tags”) in an editing window, and can
now be manually modified or supplemented.
Note: For lengthy texts, it is also possible to edit it in sections. In
this case, you will find the edit button to the left of the section heading.
Above the window, a toolbox also appears that can be of use when
formatting text. It works in roughly the same way as in a graphic
word processing program. You highlight the text to be formatted and
activate the desired tool. The software initially only sets the corresponding
tags around the highlighted text. As in manual editing, you
won't see the effects until you select Preview or after saving it.
The functions of the toolbox are as follows (the second column
shows the tag inserted by the corresponding tool):
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Editing window
and toolbox
Toolbox
functions