Quick Start Guide

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[edit] Editing existing pages

  • Click the edit tab
  • Make changes to the text in the edit box. Make sure you write clearly and concisely, and make sure your edit does something to improve the page. If you're making normal changes to the text like fixing spelling mistakes or grammar, inserting new sentences, etc, then you don't have to worry too much about formatting. When you do need to use some type of formatting, you do it using wiki syntax, see Help:Formatting for some of the common types of formatting used.
  • Optionally, enter a short note in the Summary box describing your changes.
  • Optionally preview your changes with the Preview button.
  • Click the Save page button.


You can always use the Test Page to practice editing. Please do so before you try to edit any pages.


[edit] Start a New Page

There are several ways to start a new page

Using Wikilinks MediaWiki makes it very easy to link wiki pages using a standard syntax (see Links). If you (or anyone else) creates a link to an article that doesn't exist yet, the link will be coloured red, like this.

Clicking a red link, will take you to the edit page for the new article. Simply type your text, click save and the new page will be created.

Once the page has been created, the link will change from red to blue (purple for pages you've visited) indicating that the article now exists.

Using the URL You can use the wiki's URL for creating a new page. The URL to an article of the wiki is usually something like this:

  • http://www.my-wiki.org/index.php/ARTICLE    or
  • http://www.my-wiki.org/wiki/ARTICLE

If you replace ARTICLE with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet. Clicking the "edit" page tab at the top of the page will take you to the edit page for that article, where you can create the new page by typing your text, and clicking submit.

From the search page If you search for a page that doesn't exist (using the search box and 'go' button on the left of the page) then you will be provided with a link to create the new page. (Note that this technique doesn't work if you use the 'search' button).


[edit] Use a template to make a page

{subst:Type Of Page}

If you want to start a new page that fits into a common category, you can use a temple. To bring a template up, type {{subst:Type Of Page}} in the edit box and save the page. After it's saved, go back and click the edit tab again and fill in the information. Currently available page types are:

{{subst:band}}

{{subst:label}}

{{subst:record}}

{{subst:company}}

{{subst:organization}}

{{subst:person}}

[edit] Images

[edit] To Insert an Image

To use an image or other file which has been uploaded to the wiki, use:

  • [[Image:Example.jpg]]

If you add a pipe (|) and some text after the filename, the text will be used as alternative text for text-only browsers:

  • [[Image:Example.jpg|alternative text]]

If you don't want to display the image, you can link to the file's description page, by adding a colon:

  • [[:Image:Example.jpg]]

To bypass the description page and link directly to a file , use the "Media" pseudo-namespace:

  • [[Media:Example.jpg]]

You can also make piped links if you want some other text to be used:

  • [[:Image:Example.jpg|link text]]
  • [[Media:Example.jpg|link text]]

[edit] To Upload an Image

  1. In the sidebar, under toolbox, click "Upload file"
  2. Next to the Source filename, click Browse to locate the file on your computer.
  3. Change the Destination filename to something descriptive, if necessary.
  4. Fill in the Summary, if necessary.
  5. Click the Upload file button.
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