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Wiki Basics

The distinguishing characteristic of Wikis, is that (almost) all pages can be edited by all users. However, when you edit, always respect other people’s work. Only make changes where necessary; when you have something meaningful to add or when mistakes have been made. Be especially reluctant in editing chapter pages: only add links or images, or better still, first ask if that’s ok with the author.

All pages have a ‘talk’ page attached, which you can reach through the discussion tab. Here you can comment on the page’s content by clicking on the plus sign next to the edit tab.

Registered users also have a page of their own where they can post a little about themselves. These pages also come with a ‘talk’ page attached; there you can leave messages to this user. If the user has enabled this function, you can also reach her by email: see the toolbox (the lowest part of the side menu) on user pages. Besides the ‘What links here’ link that you find in the toolbox of all pages, this user page toolbox also contains a link to list of contributions of a user.

Editing Basics

Links

The most important thing about editing in wikis, is the way they link. All you have to do to create a link, is to type a word in double square brackets like [[this]]. Here I've just created a link to the page "This". Since there was no such page, I have, at the same time that I have created the link, also create a new page. That page is still empty, and therefor the link is red.
If you meant to link to an existing page, but the link turns up red, that means you got the name wrong.

Piped Links

All you have to do to link to a page is put it's name in brackets, but sometimes you want something other than the page's name to show up in your text. You can find an example of this on the main page:

We trust you are all mature adults who respect one another's work, but even if we should be visited by a vandal, pages can be restored to their original state.

Note that the link reads "vandal", while the page is actually called "vandalism".

The way to create such a link is by adding the text you want to appear on the page like this: [[vandalism|vandal]] - first the link, then the text you want to see.