Instructions

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.

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