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1. How to edit a pre-existing page
2. How to start a new page
3. How to add images to a page
4. How to use Wiki syntax to create the text you want
5. How to make links
6. How to make footnotes
7. How to embed files

For more advanced editing tips, see: the Mediawiki Help page.

Editing pages in the poem

The Waltharius is encoded as a table, with each row in the table representing a line, and each column of the table representing a different piece of data.

Let's look at the first line in detail:

===Introduction: the Huns (1–12)===
{|
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|[[Tertia]] [[pars]] [[orbis1|orbis]], [[fratres]], [[Europa]] [[vocatur]],
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|{{Commentary|''Tertia pars orbis'': as opposed to Africa and Asia, a division found as early as Herodotus (2.16).<br />
''Fratres'': suggests that the poem could have been read in a monastic context.
}}
|{{Parallel|Lucan, '' De Bello Civili'' 9.411-412.: ''Tertia pars rerum Libye, si credere famae/Cuncta velis; at, si ventos caelumque sequaris,/Pars erit Europae''.
‘Libya is the third continent of the world, if one is willing in all things to trust report;
but, if you judge by the winds and the sky, you will find it to be part of Europe.’
}}
|{{Pictures|[[image:Waltharius-Line-1.png|thumb]]}}
|{{Meter|scansion=DSSSDS}}
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At first glance this seems quite complicated, but let's break it down bit by bit. Each line begins with a row marker:

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Each column within a row begins with the vertical bar

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Every row of the poem has seven columns, in precisely this order:

1. Text
2. Line number
3. Commentary
4. Parallels
5. Pictures
6. Meter
7. Student comments

Text: Linking to morphology pages

Each Latin word is actually a wiki link that leads to a unique morphology page for just this form. Some forms are unique, so they appear simply as

[[Tertia]]

Other forms are not unique, and so links must go to a specific page. This is why you see

[[orbis1|orbis]]