I really want to write good articles in the wiki, but I can not for the life of me find out what software the wiki is running on, and none of my know advanced wiki code knowledge is getting me anywhere.

I cant seem to scale down images in articles… so how do I use a large image?

I cant seem to do any of the formating I would love to do.

Try: http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/wiki/getting_started.html

and

http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/wiki/wiki_syntax.html

Sad… It looks like it is too limited to do what I was hoping to do.
I was hoping I could at least set the size of an image to display.

Try this:

I have to say.... I actually feel dirty having that work in a wiki.

I know xhtml like the back of my hand, but I would have never thought to try it in a wiki.

Sad though because in strict wiki code you can do stuff like
[[img.jpg|200px|thumb|left|caption]] and it will shrink it, wrap it in a frame, add a caption, and have it float left. While having it link to the article-file for that image.

like this:
http://risdpedia.net/index.php/Foamcore

hah yea I agree…

Maybe you can help us start a new wiki like your site: risdpedia.net looks great!!!  ... mootools effects and nice picture aligning… What is running your site?

If you wanna join the community web development team please let me know… we could use a hand

It’s the same software used to make wikipedia, called mediawiki.

It is really really powerful and most wiki’s will never use much of its power… but it works great.

Yeah, Ill join. I dont know how much time im going to have soon here… but I will give what I have.

Sorry for all of the posts… Also, I have installed mediawiki dozens of times and do have one install that has its users linked to the forum.

http://thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (catalogs the artwork of the artist Shepard Fairey)
http://thegiant.org/wiki/index.php/Duality_of_Humanity_2

That was one of the things that I noticed when I was checking out the wiki, the software not being Mediawiki

I actually use Mediawiki 1.10 right now (oops just a little behind the upgrade curve) and am a huge fan of it.

Through the use of extensions and templates and other neat little tricks you can really make it a powerful piece of software (webware?).

I use it to track my fiction writing - characters, scenes, etc. I even write the stories within the wiki using the web interface, and then can use an extension to output it into a variety of formats - pdf, odt, pure html, etc. By running my own wiki server on my home network I can access and edit my work from any other computer, and I get all the version tracking features in case I don’t like changes I’ve made.

Anyways the point is, I love the mediawiki software, it’s free and easy to use, and if it was running for the NUI Group Wiki I’d happily put some time in on wiki editor duties - one thing I don’t mind doing is writing.