CoalSwarm formatting tips and examples

Videos
To embed a video in a page, you do not have to upload the video onto the SourceWatch servers. The video can still reside in YouTube but will be viewable to the reader of a SourceWatch page without leaving SourceWatch.

Here is the new formatting for embedded videos:

Example:

This produces the following:

Note that when you align with "center" the text will not wrap around the video. Use "left" or "right" when you want text to wrap. The number "350" represents the pixel width of the video. You can experiment with other numbers. A good rule of thumb for video widths is 210 for small, 330 for medium, 425 for normal, and 640 for big.

Click here for more information on using the embedded video extension.

Images
To add an image to a page, you need to be in editing mode. Then look on the far left side of the SourceWatch page for the command (located in the Toolbox) "Upload file."

After you upload a file into SourceWatch, it will be stored on the SourceWatch servers and can be embedded in any page.

Here is an example format:





Note that if you replace "center" with "left" or "right," the photo will align on the left or the right and the text will wrap around the photo.

Tables
SourceWatch now allows sortable tables using the format shown below:

Here is an example:

This creates the following table:

Tip: The easiest way to make tables is to create the table in Excel. Then cut and paste the table into an Excel-to-MediaWiki converter such as http://excel2wiki.net/.

Maps
Creating maps requires latitute/longitude coordinates. These can be obtained from the site |iTouchMap.com. You can obtain coordinates either by dragging the blue dot to the location you want, or be entering a location (for example, 1222 Adams Street, St. Louis, Missouri; or simply Mumbai, India). In addition, this map lets you find the central coordinates of a designated geographic area by dragging the red dot.

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CoalSwarm logo
To add the CoalSwarm logo to a page, use this code:

This results in a badge that is automatically aligned to the right, as shown in the example here:

Ongoing projects and organizational to-do list
A list of ongoing projects and organizational to-do items can be found here.

Related SourceWatch/CoalSwarm help pages

 * Researching coal
 * Researching coal in Australia
 * Researching coal in the United States
 * Researching coal in Victoria (Australia)