An existing page contains editable sections, which means that the page is divided into small chunks of text. This makes it a lot easier to translate a page. An editable section is marked with an 'edit' link (see image below). If you click on this link, you will be able to edit everything until the next 'edit' link.
You can only work with editable sections on existing pages. This is why you should publish drafts (turning them into existing pages) before you start editing.
The red arrows in the image point to the 'edit' links.
Editable sections
An editable page typically contains the following editable sections:
- Links above the main text
- Green "translated by" bar
- Main text (divided into several editable sections)
- "Next page" button at the bottom of the page
1. Links above the main text
To edit the links above the main text, you need to click on the 'edit' link to the above right (the one that the red arrow points to in the image below).
If you click on the 'edit' link, this is what you will see:
If this looks terribly messy, don't worry. In general, you do not need to adjust this part but if you do want to edit the links, you have to know how links work in the wiki system.
2. Green "translated by" bar
If you translated a page, you should not forget to add your name to the green translation bar.
If you click on the edit 'link' to the top right of the green bar, you will be able to edit the text.
If you click on the 'edit' link, this is what you will see:
You can ignore all code. The only thing you have to do is type your name after {$TransBy}. If you wish to add a link to your name (e.g. to your own website), you have to learn how to make a link (which is not difficult).
The text 'By' before the name of 'Bieneke' is rendered by the code {$TransBy}. This is quite a lot of trouble for a two letter word but on the translated pages, {$TransBy} will automatically render the phrase "translated from English by.." in the language of your translation. This way, you do not have to type "translated from English" for every individual page. You do have to write your own name after it.
3. Main text
The main text is divided into several editable sections. The longer the page, the more editable sections you will see.
In the main text, there are two types of editable sections: 'Edit' sections end 'Table edit' sections.
Above each table, you will see two links: 'edit' and 'table edit':
If you click on the plain 'edit' link, you will see a lot of code because that is what a table requires. Clicking on 'Table edit' gives you an easy interface to adjust the content of the table. This will be discussed under editing tables.
Apart from tables, you will find several bits of code that you probably have not seen before. You can ignore most of this but there are a few things that you do need to know. This will be outlined later on.
The 'next page' button
Most pages contain a 'next page' button, just like the page you are now viewing (scroll to the bottom of this page). Above each 'next page' button, you will find an 'edit' link, which you can ignore. You can read more about this on the page about code to ignore.
More editable parts
As you read in the what parts of the page can you edit?, there are more editable regions than the sections described on this page. This page only discussed the sections in the main text. Next to the main text, you can adjust the page title, the sidebars, and the breadcrumbs.
Before we discuss those specific editable parts, we will first have a look at the code that you will encounter and that you cannot always ignore.