User:SinghBhawana/Create page on Mediawiki

=HOWTO: Create page on Mediawiki=

Purpose
This article shows how to create a Mediawiki page for writing documentation as well as how to upload images on Wikipedia Commons: upload wizard, to use these images in generating Mediawiki page. Wikipedia Commons is a Mediawiki utility which forwards you to Wikipedia page to upload Files as much you wanted to upload.

Procedure:

 * 1) 1Type https://www.mediawiki.org in your Browser. Click on "Create account".  Create_Account_login.jpg
 * 2) 2 Enter your personal information to setup an account on Mediawiki. Type username (publically visible) and password. Login Information.jpg
 * 3) 3At the top right corner, click on the respective username to create a page on Mediawiki. Username to createpage.jpg
 * 4) 4Click on "create this page" to open a new window for writing content. Create this page.jpg
 * 5) 5Point the cursor to "switch editor" option and select "source editing" from the drop down list. Source editing.jpg
 * 6) 6Type the content you want to display by manually typing or you can alternatively copy/ paste the mediawiki markup content from another source.  Creating user.jpg
 * 7) 7Click on "show preview" button to view the page. Show preview.jpg
 * 8) 8Check the contents.Page preview.jpg
 * 9) 9Click on "Publish page" button. Publish page.jpg
 * 10) 10Your page has been created on Mediawiki. Make any changes if required by clicking on "edit source" link. Mediawiki first page.jpg
 * 11) 11Click on Mediawiki Commons → In other projects. On the left side of your Mediawiki page. Wikimedia commons other proj.jpg
 * 12) 12Click on Upload file in Wikipedia Commons. It will ask for "login" to upload files. Provide same username and password used for Mediawiki login. It will forward you to new page name Wikimedia Commons → upload wizard. Click on "next" button and select media you want to share. Upload wizard.jpg
 * 13) 13Click on the continue button to proceed further. Select the radio button "This is my own work" to provide copyright for the image. Write the description of the uploaded file and select the publish date. Click on "next" it will show some warnings. Click "ok". Upload wizard add file.jpg
 * 14) 14If it shows some error while uploading file change the file name accordingly. The file is uploaded successfully. Use the file name in your Mediawiki documentation creation to use image on Mediawiki page. Upload successful.jpg
 * 15) 15To see all uploaded image click on "uploads" to see file list of images. File list.jpg
 * 16) To create other pages in Mediawiki on same "user: your name" ('here Demo02') directory. copy the url of recently created Mediawiki page and paste it in the new browser window.  https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Demo02, put backslash(/) and write your new Mediawiki page name ('here my_new_page') after it. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Demo02/my_new_page and create the new page by clicking "create this page" link. Repeat the steps from 4 to 10.

Contact
Create the page on Mediawiki is currently maintained by Bhawana. If you have any questions, complaints, feature requests, found a bug, or any other reason to contact the maintainer, please send your e-mails to bhawana.1441@gmail.com and mention "Create page on Mediawiki" in the subject.