Difference between revisions of "How to Create a New Page"

Revision as of 07:09, 7 July 2006

This page is designed for beginners who would like to learn how to create a new article or page within a wiki.

1. Do a search for an article or page that does not exist. Press the "Go" button.

2. Click on the link that says "this exact title" link at the top of the page.

3. A page will display that says: "editing {New Page Name}".

4. Paste or type content (in your own words) for your article in the textbox.

5. Click the "Save page" button... and wiki wiki!! You've created a new web page!

You may find a simple cheat sheet for beginners on how to format your articles from the Wikipedia website: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Cheatsheet-en.pdf

For a more indepth list of markup (formatting) tags see Help:Formatting.

If you know how to create a page in HTML, you can also copy and paste your HTML code instead.

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 If you know how to create a page in HTML, you can also copy and paste your HTML code instead.
-== Adding Your Article to a New or Existing Category ==
-At the end of your article add a line formatted as follows:
-  [[Category:''CategoryName''|''PageName'']]
-*'''Replace''' the ''CategoryName'' with the term used for the new or existing category (See [[Special:Categories|Categories]] for a current list.)
-*'''Replace''' the ''PageName'' with the title of the page that you see in the address or url. For example, the name of title of this page in the address bar is How_to_Create_a_New_Page.
-So the final look of your new line should look like this:
-  [[Category:''Help''|''How_to_Create_a_New_Page'']]
-Once this line has been added to your article, the wiki will automatically add the page to that particular categories page list of related articles. If you have typed in a new category name, the wiki will automatically add this new category to the categories list. (Cool, huh?)
-You may add an article to multiple categories by just adding another line. For example:
-  [[Category:''Help''|''How_to_Create_a_New_Page'']]
-  [[Category:''Wikipoe''|''How_to_Create_a_New_Page'']]
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 [[Category:Help|How_to_Create_a_New_Page]]