How do i a table of contents to a page within my mediawiki based website?

Answer by: George Kaloyanov, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support

A Table of Contents is added automatically to a page once you have created more than three headers on it. An exception to this rule is the Main Page which by default is not supposed to include a Table of Contents.

However, you can also create a Table of Contents on a page with less than four headers. Here is how to do this:

1. Go to: http://yourdomain.com/mwiki/index.php?title=page_I_wish_to _edit. Please replace yourdomain.com with your actual hosted domain name and page_I_wish_to_edit with the actual title of the page you are going to edit.
2. Click the Create an account or login button located at the top right corner of the Main Page.
3. Enter your MediaWiki Administrator’s username and password in the respective fields and click the Log in button.
4. Click the edit button from the top navigation bar.
1. Type __FORCETOC__ (there are two underscores before and after the word!) to place the Table of Contents before the first section header.
2. Type __TOC__ (there are two underscores before and after the word!) to place the Table of Contents at the exact position of this code (__TOC__).
5. Click Save Page.

If you do not want to have a Table of Contents (even on a page with more than three headers), you should write __NOTOC__ (there are two underscores before and after the word!) in the edit box.

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