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| | If you just have a couple of things to say, go ahead and write them as clearly as you can. If you have a lot to say, you might want to organize them into categories--check out the table of contents subheading. | | If you just have a couple of things to say, go ahead and write them as clearly as you can. If you have a lot to say, you might want to organize them into categories--check out the table of contents subheading. |
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| − | ===Plurals===
| + | It's raelly great that people are sharing this information. |
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| − | If you have a plural noun, like "First-years" or "Classes," the page for it should be under the singular of the noun, so: "First-year;" "Class." It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a redirect page at the plural though. (See below.)
| + | That's not even 10 miuntes well spent! |
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| − | === Capitalization ===
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| − | THE WIKI FIRE AUTOMATICALLY CAPITALIZES THE FIRST LETTER OF ANY ARTICLE. AUTOMATICALLY. KNOW THIS.
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| − | If you're writing about a proper noun--a club, a building, a person, a department--please use title case for the aticle title. Lets say you're editing the article for CFA. You can make sure you're using the right case by looking at the URL of the page you're at. It should go something like this:
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| − | Note that most of the words are capitalized, but little words, like "for" and "the", aren't.
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| − | If you spot a problem, just change it and hit enter. The page will reload and you'll edit the properly capitalized page.
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| − | If you're dealing with something that people might have trouble capitalizing, or might be looking for under another title, check out the section on redirects.
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| − | If a page is already located under an incorrect capitalization (see "capitalization" under "creating pages"), skip on to the "move" section.
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| − | == Editing a page ==
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| − | To edit an article, click the edit tab and start making changes and/or adding information. To help site [[editors]] and other interested users, add a brief description of your changes to the "Summary" bar directly above the "Save page" button.
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| − | Make sure you use the "Show preview" button to make sure your changes all worked before saving the page. This will help keep the page change history clean and easy to follow. However, if you make a mistake, no worries. Everybody has to learn somehow.
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| − | [[The Wiki Fire]] is your playground and a useful tool. Please experiment.
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| − | === Creating a table of contents on a page ===
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| − | The table of contents will be automatically created once there are four or more sections on the page. A section is created by using the "=" character as follows:
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| − | #<nowiki> == headline == will create a main section</nowiki>.
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| − | #<nowiki> === subheadline == will create a subsection</nowiki>.
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| − | #<nowiki> ==== sub-subheadline === will create a subsection within that subsection</nowiki>.
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| − | For an example, click edit on this page and see how the different sections were created.
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| − | === Creating links ===
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| − | There are two kinds of links in [[The Wiki Fire]], internal links and external links. A wiki depends on tagging as many internal links as possible, so this is important.
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| − | To create an internal link, put the word you would like to link in brackets as follows.<br>
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| − | '''Type:''' <nowiki>[[The Wiki Fire]]</nowiki><br>
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| − | '''Get:''' [[The Wiki Fire]]
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| − | To create an external link, put the entire URL, including the <nowiki>http://</nowiki> into one set of brackets. This style can also be used for citing sources.<br>
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| − | '''Type:''' <nowiki>[http://www.bigmuddyrecords.org/ Big Muddy Records]</nowiki><br>
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| − | '''Get:''' [http://www.bigmuddyrecords.org/ Big Muddy Records]
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| − | '''Type:''' There are five bands on this label.<nowiki>[http://www.bigmuddyrecords.org/]</nowiki><br>
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| − | '''Get:''' There are five bands on this label.[http://www.bigmuddyrecords.org/]
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| − | There are also buttons above the editing window you can use if you forget how to link.
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| − | ===Creating a redirect page ===
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| − | Lets say you're working on the page for CFA. The official title of the page is Ford Center for the Fine Arts, but nobody's going to go looking for that. They're going to type in "CFA" and expect to find the page.
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| − | But we don't want two articles in two different places, do we. that would be a mess. This is what redirects were created for.
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| − | What you would do is edit the CFA page, and then type in
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| − | <nowiki>#REDIRECT[[Ford Center for the Fine Arts]]</nowiki>
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| − | and then save the page.
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| − | This also works for capitalizations. For example, some people might go looking for the "Ford Center '''F'''or '''T'''he Fine Arts". It would be good to have that page redirect to "Ford Center for the Fine Arts", too.
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| − | If a page is already located under an incorrect capitalization (see "capitalization" under "creating pages"), skip on to the "move" section.
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| − | === Move Pages ===
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| − | Every published page has a "move" button. Use it with caution--only if a page really is in the wrong place. Maybe it has the wrong capitalization, maybe it's named "classes" when it should be named "class".
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| − | The moving process is really pretty self-explanatory: you just type in a new title for the page. The old page is replaced with a redirect to the new one. (handy!)
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| − | === Creating a small table (meeting times) ===
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| − | This table is perfect for bits of information like meeting times, but will not really work for large chunks of text or images. If you find more uses, be sure to write them here.
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| − | '''Type:'''
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| − | <nowiki><properties></nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>Day=Mondays</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>Time=8 p.m.</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>Place=[[The Human Rights Center]]</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki></properties></nowiki>
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| − | '''Get:'''
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| − | Time=8 p.m.
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| − | ===Creating a larger table===
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| − | For more complex information, use this table. A number of examples can be found on the [[List of Current and Former Student Senators]] page.
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| − | '''Type:'''
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| − | <nowiki>| Prairie Fire Companion || Variety/Talk || Monday || 10-11 PM</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>|-</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>| Super Mario Happy Fun Hour || Video game music || Friday || 8-9 AM</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>| Extremist's Angst Forum || Political Talk || Sunday || 1-2 PM</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>| Mornington Crescent || Game show/indie || Tuesday || 3-4 AM</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>|}</nowiki>
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| − | '''Get:'''
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| − | === References ===
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| − | You can add references to a story Wikipedia (similar to the style seen on the [[Hamblin Hall]] page) style with the <nowiki><references/> command. Here's an example:</nowiki>
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| − | ... and it cost $5 million<nowiki><ref>[http://www.register-mail.com/stories/041207/LOC_BCTK6D4K.GID.shtml The Register-Mail] the daily newspaper of Galesburg, IL</ref></nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>== References ==</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki><references/></nowiki>
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| − | '''and you get:'''
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| − | ... and it cost $5 million<ref>[http://www.register-mail.com/stories/041207/LOC_BCTK6D4K.GID.shtml The Register-Mail] the daily newspaper of Galesburg, IL</ref>
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| | == References == | | == References == |
