Basics
- To edit any page click on the Edit link at the bottom of the page. Every page (including this one) can be edited by users of our forum (log in to the forum to activate the Edit link).
- Editing is done in plain text (no fancy editor) with simple text formatting features (see below for the most common features of follow the TextEditReference link on the right for a full rundown.
- The easiest way to see how things are done is to look at existing pages (click the Edit link on their bottom and see how they are written).
- Terms in orange with an question mark behind them are links to (yet) undefined terms. In a way they are an invitation to start writing an entry for them. If you like, click on the question mark which will lead you to the editor and will let you create the first version of that topic.
Common formatting
- You get bold text by using two asterisks on either side.
- You get italics by surrounding words with two forwad slashes on either side like this.
- And, **bold italics** by using both.
- You get bullets (as in this list) by using an asterisk * at the start of the line
- To start a quote use double-">" and double-"<" left and right of the quoted text
- You can separate paragraphs with an extra blank line. Example:
- You can get horizontal rules with four or more dashes on a line by themselves
- To create hyperlinks you just capitalize the words and string them together. Let's say you want to create a page about how Steve Wainstead eats worms. All you have to do is to put that term in square brackets like [[Steve Wainstead eats worms]] which will result in a link like this: Steve Wainstead eats worms[?]. If the page does not exist yet a question mark appears after the link, inviting you to create the page: ThisPageShouldNotExist[?]. (And please don't ruin the example by creating one.)
- To link to pages outside the Wiki, you can just type in the URL and Wiki will link it for you: www.nytimes.com/
- To put images in, just provide the hyperlink in brackets like this: [[www.yourhost.yourdomain/images/picture.png]]. Image URLs not in brackets will just appear as hyperlinks to the image.
And now?
- Go to the Sandbox, click Edit there and try out those features to your heart's delight.
- Then you are ready to begin AddingPages.