How to Create a New Page

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

Create a New Page

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!


Formatting Your Article

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.