Version 35 of How to create your own page
Updated 2007-05-15 20:41:13 by kbk
Creating your own page is easy - the trick is this:
Start editing a page and add a reference to the page you want to create:
- Read: How to edit these wiki pages for information on the first step
- Insert at a convenient place the title for your page, surrounded with the [ and ] characters. Don't use leading or trailing spaces, and preferably don't use multiple spaces inside the brackets. Also, shorter names are easier for other people to use than longer ones. Finally, once a page title is specified and the rest of these steps are followed, a page in the wiki is reserved forever; so check spelling, grammar, syntax, etc. before saving the modified page.
- Save the page.
- On the resulting page, you will see the [ and the ] (possibly in a different colour). Click on either character and you will be taken to a web form where you can edit the newly created page.
- Read Formatting Rules for information on how to get nicely formatted text.
If you want to start a completely new page, you can go to New Pages and create a new title with the above procedure. Otherwise just edit a page that discusses a related subject.
If you do not want to start a new page, but you don't know how to connect your material with the thousands of pages already present, then ... well, what then? Who can articulate what should happen?
Other pertinent info for this page can be found here for now:
- Welcome Visitors
- Wikit user names - how to make your initials show up on the edit & recent changes
Leon
Chat dialogue:
Dossy: "the one thing I hate about the wiki: I have NO idea where to start the page."
KBK: "You can always start a page on 'New Pages' and let the wikignomes weave it in."