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How to edit this wiki

Basic wiki editing

This site uses Mediawiki, the same software that runs Wikipedia. There are many resources and tutorials for learning how to do basic wiki editing. Here are some resources to get you started:

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)===
{|
|-
|[[Tertia]] [[pars]] [[orbis1|orbis]], [[fratres]], [[Europa]] [[vocatur]],
|
|{{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}}
|
|-

At first glance this seems quite complicated, but let's break it down bit by bit. Each line begins with a row marker: |- Each column within a row begins with the vertical bar |

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]]

Commentary

The commentary icon is produced with:

{{Commentary|Text}}

. When you hover over the icon, the text will appear.  Like this 

Parallels

The parallels icon is produced with:

{{Parallel|Text}}

. When you hover over the icon, the text will appear.  Like this 

Pictures

If there is only one picture for this line, it is easiest to use:

{{Pictures|[[Image:Filename|center|thumb]]}}

Including the "thumb" parameter in the image tag is very important; otherwise the picture can be far too large.

If there is more than one picture for this line, we use the built-in gallery command:

{{Pictures|<gallery widths="180px" heights="120px" perrow="2">
File:Waltharius-Preface.png
File:Waltharius-Preface_1.png
</gallery>}}

Simply copy and paste this command, and then add in as many Files as you need.

If the picture is relevant to more than one line, you can make a blue descender in subsequent rows by using the template:

{{PicturesCont}}

A blue line will appear wherever you use this template.

Meter

The template for meter is more complex, since it allows one to enter data for elision, scansion, and so on. The basic template is

{{Meter|scansion=X}}

, but there are many more variables possible. See Template:Meter for a list of all variables.

Student Comments

The final row in the line, just before the |-, is for student comments. These may be entered with a template of the form:

{{Comment|Text}}

When you use this, the comment will appear as a bubble icon, like this:  test!