Before editing pages make sure you have the necessary Editor rights.

Texts

How to create new Category:Texts pages and annotate paragraphs.

Enter the name of the page. The name is relevant for searching and should be the same as the title of the text.

Metadata

Insert a <meta> section.

Note: Attributes like genre are case sensitive!

<meta
  author="Dreiser, Theodore;Sandburg, Carl;Sinclair, Lewis"
  additional_information="Info text here.."
  genre="Novel,Thriller"
  journal="Journal1, Journal2"
  publisher="Publisher1, Publisher2"
  year_of_publication="2000,2001"
  page_range="1-10"
/>

The author attribute can have multiple values separated by a ";" semicolon.
The attributes genre, journal, publisher, year_of_publication can have multiple values separated by a "," comma.
Attributes can be omitted completely and are shown as "-" in the Bibliographic Information section on the text page.

Annotations

Its best to look at already annotated pages to get a feeling for how the markup works.

Put all annotations inside <annotations>...</annotations> elements.
Define paragraphs via <paragraph keywords="keyword1,keyword2">paragraph text</paragraph>
The keywords attribute can have multiple values separated by a "," comma.
There can be multiple paragraphs.
Use <pagenr>(1)</pagenr> elements to display page number information inside paragraphs.
Use <poem>...</poem> inside paragraphs to keep formatting exactly like in the editor. See Extension:Poem for further formatting instructions.
Use wikitext like == CHAPTER I == between paragraphs for headlines and other wiki markup for styling. See Help:Formatting for information on formatting syntax.

Authors

How to create new Category:Authors pages.

Enter the name of the author. This should always follow the same naming convention throughout the wiki e.g. Frost, Robert.

Insert an author infobox and related texts section with the following wikitext:

{{Infobox Author
| gender            = Male
| ethnicity         = African, American
| nationality       = African
| life span         = quite long
}}

The ethnicity parameter can have multiple values separated by a "," comma.
Attributes can be omitted completely and are shown as "-" in the Bibliographic Information section on the author page.
nationality and life span are not used for searching and can therefore contain any text.

Examples

Click on Actions->Edit on an existing page like Off_the_Highway or Frost, Robert to see examples of working edits.

Special Pages

Use Mediawiki:Sidebar to edit the navigation bar items.
Edit MediaWiki:Common.css to change the styling of the wiki. Scroll down to /* OFFTHEROAD CUSTOM CSS SECTION */ to find custom styling for the offroad wiki.
Edit MediaWiki:Text Template to change the preloaded text for new Category:Texts pages.
Edit MediaWiki:Author Template to change the preloaded text for new Category:Authors pages.

Extensions

See Special:Version for details.

Composer

SemanticBundle

Extension Directory

OffTheRoad
WikiSearch
WikiSearchFront
YouTube
WSSemanticParsedText
ArrayFunctions (at least version 1.42 for the caseinsensitive option)

SemanticBundle

SemanticMediaWiki
PageForms

Other

These come bundled with the above setup.

PdfHandler
ParserFunctions
Poem
InputBox
TemplateData

Instructions

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