What is the most common markup language today? There are many variations. But among them, wiki markup will definitely be mentioned. What is it, how to apply it in practice, we will figure it out later in the article.
What is it?
Wiki markup is one of the markup languages that is used to create, design and edit content on those websites that can be classified as wikis. Its main advantage is that it simplifies access to the capabilities of the HTML language.
Pages that are formatted using wiki markup are pre-converted to HTML for further viewing in a browser. Such a conversion is provided by special software - a wiki engine.
Is there any standardization for using wiki markup? Yes, this Creole is one of the attempts to apply general rules for wiki markup on various sites. To date, there are several wiki engines supporting Creole.
Variety of wiki markup languages
Based on the foregoing, we note: there is currently no universally accepted standard for wiki markup. There are several languages that are incompatible with each other. The structure, grammar, keywords, terms of use and other features depend on the specific implementation of the project, the specific wiki system.
Yes, wiki markup languages provide the ability to cross-link to other pages, but using their own syntax. Many, especially early, wikis use the special CamelCase convention to mark up words that can be used to form cross-references. And in "MediaWiki" (one of the common engines for wiki projects), a design [[...]] is used for this. Such cross-links are called free links.
Different wikis will support different sets of HTML elements in the rules for marking up wikis. In some cases, the available HTML elements may have an individual appearance consistent with the design of the website. And MediaWiki will support many standard HTML elements.
Wiki Markup and SMM
How to make a wiki-markup, it is important to know each SMM-box. After all, these are special tags that help aesthetically style the text. And opening significantly simplified access to the possibilities of the HTML language.
No need to repeat that the attention of readers is primarily attracted by visually slender, beautiful posts on social networks. This aesthetic effect also allows you to achieve a wiki layout. First of all, it makes the text readable.
This effect is achieved due to the following:
- The design of the public menu.
- Logical internal links and transitions within the community - to audio, video files, photo albums.
- Adding external convenient links to other communities, personal pages or third-party sites.
- Beautiful design themes, subheadings, lists, tables and so on.
Why is it so important to know how to make wiki markup on social networks? For example, in the popular Russian “Vkontakte” (we will continue to use this network as an example) with its help you can create a practical complete alternative to web pages. Of course, based on wiki markup rules.
Additional features with markup
Wiki markup opens up additional opportunities for a specialist:
- Creation of large competently formatted texts with subtitles, lists, emphasis, indents, paragraphs, various fonts, underlining, etc.
- Adding illustrations, videos to the text of Vkontakte articles.
- Create complete landing pages.
- Designing a navigation menu for community content and so on.
- Creating "buttons". For example: "Subscribe to the resource", "Send financial assistance" and so on.
- The ability to distribute guest publications, thereby attracting traffic.
- Providing the necessary links during the article (to another material or a specific paragraph).
- Development of simple quests, games.
We now turn to the practical embodiment of what has been said.
Wiki apps
How to quickly make a wiki markup for an Email link? Simple page construction can be performed using special programs. Let's introduce the most common applications:
- Wiki Poster.
- "Source".
- Mobivik (suitable for use on mobile devices).
In the "Wiki-poster" you go into the program and gradually follow the instructions of the system. The work of the Source Code and Mobivik is somewhat different. The user needs to select the public, the community with which he is going to work, then next to his name tap on "New", and then enter the necessary title. After these steps, the editor will open.
Self-made publication
Let's see how to apply the wiki markup for VK. In our example - self-creation of a post with its help:
- For publication, the first thing in the group is the opening of materials. The administrator goes to "Community Management", then moves to the sections where he connects this item.
- We return to the community itself. You need to find out and copy its id. This is the digital sequence number that you will see in the address bar of the browser after club.
- The next step is to use wiki markup templates. The link is useful to you: http://vk.com/pages?oid=-*******&p=Name. Instead of asterisks, insert the numerical sequence from the second paragraph, and the name will be the name of the created section. You can use Russian letters, numbers, insert spaces. Remember that you cannot change this name in the future!
- Click on "Fill with Content." The editor opens in response to the action.
- An important point: copy the address of this page to "? Act ...". Save the information in a separate document. This page is easy to lose, as it is not yet pinned.
- Going to the wiki layout menu is easy: click on the <> icon on the right side. It contains much more functions than the standard for users of "Vkontakte". Here it is possible to beautifully format the text, break it into paragraphs and subheadings, add illustrations.
Work with publication
To style your text, use the toolbar that appears on the working window. You can apply popular wiki markup codes:
- <b> <b /> - use bold.
- <i> </i> is text in italics.
- <u> </u> - underlined text.
- [] - link to a specific material, external resource.
Job is done? Be sure to check the article before publishing it. To do this, there is a button "Preview": it allows you to see the material as it appears before the eyes of readers. All defects can be corrected.
Publication and finalization of the text
How to make a post visible to community subscribers? Paste the link that you copied on the advice from the instructions above into the wall of your public. Click on the “three dots” icon on the right side, select “Lock”.
You can attach an image to the created note in the post to attract the attention of the reader. To do this, go to the settings, click on the "camera" icon and select the appropriate photo.
Publish the material. The article will become visible to subscribers after they click on the "View" button. That's all - you have created an interesting Vkontakte post using wiki markup.
Wiki Link Markup
Many users are interested in how wiki markup allows you to insert a link into a publication. This is a fairly simple process that you will soon be performing on the machine.
So, how do I create an email link using wiki markup? Everything is very simple:
- Copy the necessary link in the address bar of the browser.
- Place the square brackets in the right place in the publication text.
- Between these brackets, paste the copied information like this: [xxx].
- Link is ready.
Thus, you can create external links to third-party resources, images. In the latter case, at the place of the link after publication, readers will see the image.
A similar system also adds internal links - to any resources inside the Vkontakte space itself:
- User or community photo albums.
- User or community video.
- User or community audio recordings.
- Picture or photograph.
- Discussion, survey.
- Statistics of a public.
- Applications
- Invitations to communities and so on.
A clear embodiment of the above is presented in the video tutorial below.
Creating a community menu
Imagine how to create a simple graphical navigation in the Vkontakte community using wiki markup:
- First of all, prepare the appropriate pictures: these can be ready-made icons from the network or some kind of image previously cut into pieces.
- To divide a photo into several elements, it is convenient to use the IMGonline application.
- Upload pictures to the editor.
- Click the <> icon.
- If you need to have no borders between the pictures in the menu, you need to add nopadding to each of them.
- After this word, be sure to add to each photo a link to the section to which this button will lead.
- Now it’s time to save the results and attach them to the wall on behalf of your community.
- You can add an eye-catching image to the navigation page. For example, with the same inscription "Menu".
Last Tips
We present several recommendations from experts:
- You should not format the content in a visual editor. In this case, there are problems: missing tags, resizing images.
- Do not add plus and minus signs to the title. They will be subject to transcoding, as a result of which the menu may “break”.
- Do not use long links! The first level domain must be less than 6 characters.
- To learn more about the wiki markup on the Vkontakte website, refer to the voluminous directory that appears to be the social network itself. There, almost all issues that may arise from the user are considered.
The wiki markup language is one of the easiest ways to access HTML features. Today it is widely used to promote publications on wikis. A frequent example is the popular Vkontakte. You now know how to create an interesting post using wiki markup.