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'''This website can be edited within Madagascar only. If you would like editing permission from elsewhere, you need an invitation from an administrator of the site.'''
== Text editing ==
The most basic text editing features, such as boldface, italics and links can be formatted with help of the buttons above the edit box. Alternatively, the syntax is simple. For '''bold text''', enclose the word(s) within three single quotes:
<nowiki>'''</nowiki>'''bold text'''<nowiki>'''</nowiki>
For ''italictext'', enclose the text with two single quotes:
<nowiki>''</nowiki>''italic text''<nowiki>''</nowiki>
To link a text to another page within the wiki, enclose the word in double square double brackets:
<nowiki>[[</nowiki>[[Anakao]]<nowiki>]]</nowiki>
The link will thereafter point to [[Anakao|http://www.madacamp.com/Anakao]]
To link to a page on another website, enclose the link location within single square brackets and the linked word(s) after the URL:
<nowiki>[http://www.examplepinterest.com exampe/madacamp MadaCamp Pinterest board]</nowiki> This will appear as:
Alternatively, typing out the type a full URL without the brackets: ., e.g.:
<nowiki>http://www.examplepinterest.com/madacamp</nowiki>
... will result in to display the link appearing as follows:
http://www.examplepinterest.com/madacamp
To make a listing, simply prefix the list items with asterixes: ...
<pre><nowiki>
* item 3
Nested lists can be made are done as follows: ...
<pre><nowiki>
</nowiki></pre>
... which will appear as follows:
* item 1
etc.
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== Image links ==
To link to a page from an image instead of an image leading to larger version of the file shown on a page, add the link parameter to the image markup, eg.:
<pre>[[Image:Big_fish.jpg|200px|link=Big_fish]][[Image:Madagascar_Coffee_001.jpg|200px|link= Image links Madagascar_Coffee]]</pre> == Link to an image or other file == To link directly to an image or some other file that has previously been uploaded on this site use the <code>media:</code> prefix. For example: ... <nowiki>[[media:Big_fish.jpg]]</nowiki>
The link will then appear as [[media:Big_fish.jpg|how to wear a fish]]
== Display Displaying an email address ==
The following code:
[mailto:hello@madacamp.com hello@madacamp.com]
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== Skype button ==
To display a Skype button that will launch Skype and call or start a chat to a specified Skype address as well as indicate its online or offline status, first configure your Skype application to allow its status be shown online (if it has not already been configured as such). This is done within the Skype application section <b>Tools->Options->Privacy</b>. Tick the checkbox ''Allow my status to be shown on the web'':
The following example will create a button for which a call can be made when clicked on:
The available actions are: add, chat or call
== Google maps == To create new or edit existing Google maps on pages, click on the map button httphttps://www.madacamp.com/extensions/GoogleMaps/images/button_map_open.gif above the edit box.
Find the region to display, set the various size and display options and thereafter copy the resulting <googlemap>...<googlemap> code into the edit box and save the page.
Various display options include satellite view, map view, adding of place markers, drawing lines etc.
== Google paths ==
Go to maps.google.com
Click menu in top left corner -> Your places -> MAPS
Click CREATE MAP (bottom left of screen)
Click Import
Select a track on the computer (eg. Track_AMBOHIMANGA-IVATO.gpx) and
drag and drop into the Upload space
Click on the upper three dots
Export to KML/KMZ
Select "Export to a .KML file (full icon support use .KMZ)."
Download
Click Save File, to eg. FILENAME.gpx
In the file, there is a list of coordinates:
<pre><nowiki><coordinates></nowiki>
50.1606086176,-14.2578310333,12.63
50.1606914308,-14.2576493975,11.67
etc.
</coordinates></pre>
Run geoconvert.sh FILENAME.gpx to change format to:
<pre>
-14.2578310333, 50.1606086176
-14.2576493975, 50.1606914308
etc.
</pre>
Copy into a new Google map, eg.:
<pre><nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" lat="-19.105844" lon="47.33697" height="750"
controls="large" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;">
</nowiki>
2#B2FCFF00
-14.2578310333, 50.1606086176
-14.2576493975, 50.1606914308
etc.
<nowiki></googlemap></nowiki></pre>
Placemarker icons are done separately above the path code
== Scalable maps ==
Modify markup on all pages containing maps to include <code>style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"</code>, e.g.:<br>
<nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" lat="-12.243119" lon="49.345264" type="satellite" zoom="16" controls="large" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"></nowiki>
Use http://www.madacamp.com/Special:ReplaceText
Replace:
<nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" (.*)></nowiki>
with:
<nowiki><googlemap version="0.9" $1 style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"></nowiki>
Select 'Use regular expressions' and namespaces 'Main'.
Pages which already contain the string will thereafter have duplicate style declarations:
style="width:100%;max-width:600px;" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"
Thereafter replace instances of:
style="width:100%;max-width:600px;" style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"
with:
style="width:100%;max-width:600px;"
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== Adding RSS news feeds to pages ==
RSS means (Really Simple Syndication. It's a standard code format for feeding various news reader applications (including web browsers) with news allows importing summaries and corresponding links to news articles. For example, do a Google news search at [httphttps://news.google.com http://news.google.comsearch] for any given keyword or phrasecan be imported. Thereafter scroll HOwever, Google does not include RSS feed URLs directly on their search result pages but it's not complicated to piece together the relevant feed URLs. For example, a search for the bottom phrase "madagascar lemurs" can be included on a page as follows: <pre><rss template="Google-feed" filterout="movie penguins">https://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22madagascar+lemurs%22&cf=all&output=rss</rss></pre> The output of this news search for the phrase ''madagascar lemurs'', filtering out results with the page terms ''penguins'' and find the ''movie'', becomes: <rss template="Google-feed" filterout="movie penguins deprecated">https://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22madagascar+lemurs%22&cf=all&output=rss</rss> Other non-Google RSS symbol feeds may include a feed icon [[File:RSS_icon.png|14px]]to indicate the whereabouts of RSS feeds. Follow For additional usage and customisation of the output, see: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS == Uploading images == To add your own images, first [[Special:Userlogin| sign up]] and thereafter click on the [[Special:Upload|Upload file]] link to in the toolbox on the left, which allows uploading a single image at the URL of time. Note that the raw RSS feedlink does not appear to site visitors who are not logged in.
When scaling a 4:3 aspect ratio image from some larger size down to 1500 pixels width it becomes 1125 pixels in height. In case of a taller than wide image, i.e. in portrait format, it becomes 1125 width and 1500 pixels in height. Example of an 4:3 aspect ratio, 1500 pixels wide and 1125 pixels tall image: [[media:Diego_Suarez_150.jpg|Diego_Suarez_150.jpg]]. However, many cameras output different aspect ratios and size settings. Depending on your internet connection speed, size and number of images, you may prefer to scale your images down before uploading them onto this site. A free graphics application to scale images down is [http://www.gimp.org The Gimp]. <!--Alternatively, try the Pixlr online photo editor at http://pixlr.com/editor/--> Or to avoid using a graphic application altogether, just upload your images in their original sizes and dimensions as they come from the camera. <!--== Images Uploading more images via FTP == To batch upload even images, first transfer the the images via FTP to for example /tmp/import Log in by shell, su root and set the environment variable to: SERVER_NAME=www.madacamp.com<br>export SERVER_NAME Within ~/wiki/maintenance/ run: php importImages.php /tmp/import_images --user=CampMaster --comment="MadaCamp photos" For more help, type php importImages.php --help--> == Displaying images ==
[[Image:Nahampoana_Main_Building.jpg|left|70px|]] Align an image to the left of the text...
<gallery>
</gallery>
The code example of the above gallery is shown below:
<pre><nowiki>
<gallery>
</gallery>
</nowiki></pre>
<nowiki><gallery></nowiki> parameters:
caption="Caption above gallery"
widths=''n'' - image widths in pixels
heights=''n'' - image heights in pixels
perrow=''n'' - number of images per row
mode=''n'' - can be used with the following paramenters:
* traditional - the default gallery display
* nolines - like traditional but without border lines.
* packed - all images will have the same height but different widths, with minimal space between images. The rows will organise themselves according to the screen width.
* packed-overlay - shows captions on the image in a semi-transparent white overlay.
* packed-hover - similar to packed-overlay but with the caption and box showing on hover.
== Wide images ==
<pre><nowiki>{{wide image|Bezavona_pano2.jpg|1800px|Fort Dauphin panorama|250px|right}}</nowiki></pre>
== Random image display ==
'''A random image can be displayed along with various optional parameters, such as size, left or right aligned and a pre-defined array of named images to limit the selection from.'''
<randomimage float="left" />
This code can be used to display a random image from the complete repository of images on the site:<br>
<span style="background:#f6f6f6;"><nowiki><randomimage float="left" /></nowiki></span><br>
An caption will automatically be pulled from the image descripion page if one exists or if added when the image was originally uploaded on the site.
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<randomimage float="left">Random image</randomimage>
This example code can be used to display a random image with a pre-defined caption, eg. 'A random image', for all images:<br>
<span style="background:#f6f6f6;"><nowiki><randomimage float="left">A random image</randomimage></nowiki></span>
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The <nowiki><randomimage></nowiki> tag supports the following attributes:
* size - set the image width (default is the user's thumbnail width).
* float - float the image; valid values are 'left', 'center' and 'right'.
* choices - limits the image selection to a list of images separated by a vertical bar. For example:
<randomimage size="150" float="left" choices="Chocolaterie_Robert_024.jpg|Chocolaterie_Colbert_01.jpg|Cinagra_066.jpg" />
This example is a 150 pixels width image, aligned to the left and with a pre-defined array of named images to choose from:<br>
<span style="background:#f6f6f6;"><nowiki><randomimage size="150" float="left" choices="Chocolaterie_Robert_024.jpg|Chocolaterie_Colbert_01.jpg|Cinagra_066.jpg" /></nowiki></span>
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== Displaying YouTube and Google videos ==
To embed display a video from YouTube onto on this wikisite, simply extract and copy the relevant video ID from that is part of a YouTube URL, e.g.[httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OKs7qpJvRI&feature=related httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<font color="#bd0000">FChpJY59iD8vDYzsT3d06I</font>&feature=related] and paste the relevant bit into place in the edit form as follows:
<HTML5video type="youtube" width="600" height="338">_OKs7qpJvRIvDYzsT3d06I</youtubeHTML5video>
To upload a video on MadaCamp, firstly make the video available in three formats: .mp4, .ogg and .webm. This can easily be done via an online video conversion tool such as [https://cloudconvert.com cloudconvert.com]. Thereafter save the three versions on your system before uploading them with identical fileames but with the different file extensions, e.g.:
Thereafter include the video on the page without the file suffix: <nowiki><HTML5video width="520" height="320" autoplay="true" loop="true">Dragonfly</HTML5video></nowiki> Different browsers will automatically select the suitable format for their individual systems. <HTML5video width="520" height="320" autoplay="true" loop="true">Dragonfly</HTML5video> <!--Bug: Thumbs does not show up on Ipad, which affects autoplay="false" mode. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=2285855 --> <!--== Editing and publishing videos == While Google a quick and YouTube offers an easy conversion process from an original video file format way to FLV (streaming Flash publish a video) is by simply uploading videos on their portals it into a YouTube account and thereafter embedding them including it on any a page of this site, Google or YouTube videos will automatically display links to other and usually irellevant videos at the end of the stream, often in combination wtih advertising. To avoid sich irellavant content from being appended to your video, upload your video can also be uploaded directly on MadaCamp insteadafter having converted it into FLV format. But first you need to convert the video Your original may be an Mpeg, AVI, Quicktime or some other format. The conversion into FLV formatcan then be done using a video editor such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux Avidemux], which is available for free download on all operating systems:
[[File:Avidemux.jpg|600px]]
<nowiki>[[File:Video.flv]]</nowiki>
The size and aspect ratio can be tweaked like a normal on-page image by defining the pixel display values, as follows:
<nowiki>[[File:Video.flv|300x375px]]</nowiki>
Alternatively, [http://ffmpeg.org FFmpeg] is an n excellent and free video editing tool, but which requires command line editing, which is usually only mainly done by on Linux and OSX Mac expert userssystems.
For Windows users, an easy-to-use a simple FLV creation conversion tool is the [http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm Mobile Media Converter]. While Mobile Media Converter lacks lack various advanced editing features that exists in Avidemux, if all you need is to convert a video into FLV format without special editing features, its simplicity makes Mobile Media Converter is a perfectly good tool for the purpose. Various pre-configured size, bandwidth and quality level options are available in the conversion process very easy for beginners.
<table cellpadding="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border:1px solid #cccccc; float:left; margin-right:10px; width:328px;"><tr>
<td style="padding:3px 3px 3px 3px;">
[[File:Chocolaterie_Robert_320x240_low.flv|320x240px]]
</td></tr></table>
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For tips a tricks on editing video in Windows or Mac OSX or using various cloud based (online) tools, watch BBC's [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9484842.stm The essential guide to video editing] webcast from 13 May 2011.
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== Adding language switches ==
Note: Language switches are currently deactivated.
To add language switches for French and Malagasy versions to appear in the left column of any content page is simple. For example, the following code was added in the edit box of the page [[Lemur|http://madacamp.com/Lemur]]:
<nowiki>[[fr:Lémurien]]</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[mg:Maki]]</nowiki>
The Français and Malagasy link therefore appears on the English version of the page, which lead to [http://fr.madacamp.com/Lémurien http://fr.madacamp.com/Lémurien] and [http://mg.madacamp.com/Maki http://mg.madacamp.com/Maki] respectively
(note: Maki means lemur in Malagasy).
[[File:Language switch example.gif]]
On the French page, adding links to the English and Malagasy versions is done by:
<nowiki>[[en:Lemur]]</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[mg:Maki]]</nowiki>
And on the Malagasy page, add the links to the English and French pages by:
<nowiki>[[en:Lemur]]</nowiki>
<nowiki>[[fr:Maki]]</nowiki>
If a page title contains two or more words, the words are separated by underscores or spaces, for example:
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr>
<td style="border:1px dashed #296dad; background: #fffbff; padding:10px;width:48%;">
<nowiki>[[fr:Grande_Île]]</nowiki><br>
<nowiki>[[en:Big_island]]</nowiki><br>
<nowiki>[[mg:Nosy_be]]</nowiki>
</td><td align="center" style="width:4%;">or</td>
<td style="border:1px dashed #296dad; background: #fffbff; padding:10px;width:48%;">
<nowiki>[[fr:Grande Île]]</nowiki><br>
<nowiki>[[en:Big island]]</nowiki><br>
<nowiki>[[mg:Nosy be]]</nowiki>
</td></tr></table>
The language swith codes can be added anywhere in the editing box, for example at the end.
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