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The most important goal of the WikiFON is to gather content. Making it look pretty is a lower priority. New contributors are encouraged to add and edit pages. This is a modified standard help page. Look for the links in the text to find more information.
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How to basics
You can add pages, or edit (including modifying or deleting) most pages in WikiFON. Click the "edit" tab at the top to edit the whole page, or click on one of the "edit" links within the page to change that specific part. After making changes, click "Save Page" button at the bottom. That is the very basics on how to change a page! The Sandbox page is a place to play. Have fun.
Help us improve help. Edit the Problems and suggestions page to post questions. For example, "How do I add a page?"
If you edit something, please communicate why. There are two places for this. The discussion tab on any page is a good place for longer comments about the page. (Since it is a page, you will have to click on the discussion tab, then the edit tab). The second place is the "Summary area" at the bottom of the edit area. For example, we will put "edit help intro for new user". This will show up when we click on the history tab.
How to edit
To add plain text, simply enter it. If you want to do something more fancy, look how others have done certain things on the page you are editing, or go to one of the links below. Once you are done editing, click on the save button at the bottom, and you will have changed the page.
The easiest way to do simply things is use the editing buttons, shown below. When you click edit, they are displayed at the top. (For some functions, you might want to highlight text before you click a button). Below is a list of what the buttons do, in order of their appearance on the button bar.
- Bold - make your text bold.
- Italics - make your text italicized.
- Internal link - link to a page inside the wiki you are editing. If you want to do it without the button, do something like this [[Main Page]]. This will show up as Main Page. CaSe MattErS!
- External link - link to a web page not part of the wiki you are editing. If you want to do it without the button, do something like this [http://www.google.com Google Homepage]. This will show up as Google Homepage.
- Create new section within the page.
- Insert image from this wiki. Note: To insert an image that is not on this page, just insert the url, for example, http://example.com/image.jpg. If your picture is not on the internet already, you can host it on one of the websites listed here. You can also upload an image by clicking on the upload file link in the toolbox.
- Link to a media file (sound or movie). If your video file is not on the internet already, you can host it on one of the websites listed here. Editthis.info does not allow you to upload files (although you will be able to with a Premium account).
- Mathematical formula Help:Math
- Ignore wikipedia formatting - what was used to show http://example.com/image.jpg in plain text instead of as a picture.
- Your signature - only if you are signed in (you don't have to register or log in to edit this wiki, but you can).
- Horizontal line - use sparingly.
External Links
For more help, check out these Wikipedia links:
- Help Contents
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page
- FAQ on Editing a wiki This answers a few basic questions.
- Editing Help page This goes into detail on how to do certain things.
Also see:
- Editing Help, another independent wiki's version of this page (more detail).
External links
- Wikipedia Help, Wikipedia's version of this page.
