Help:Editing/new page/user

Creating a User Article

Within what we call "userspace" – that is, titles that start with "User:<your username>" – you can post anything you want as long as you don't mind it being public and freely available under the sitewide Creative Commons license (and as long as it doesn't violate the content policy which we will eventually write and post).

The easiest way to create a new userspace article is to edit your user page ("User:<your username>"):

1. click on your username in the top bar (assuming you're using the default skin) to access your user page
2. if you already have a userpage, you'll need to click "edit" to edit it
   • if it doesn't exist yet, MediaWiki will automatically put it in edit mode for you
3. To start an index of your user pages, type something like this:

==My Articles==
* [[/first article]]

...where "first article" is whatever you want the title of your first article to be. (You can list additional articles when you're ready to post them, or list them now as reminders that you wanted to write them; links to nonexistent articles will be red, while existing articles will have blue links.)

Alternatively, you can link like this:

{{l/sub|first article}}

..which will only display "first article" instead of "/first article" for the link text, while still linking correctly.

Then:

• Save the page (click the [Save page] button at the bottom)
• Click on the "first article" link
• Edit and save your first article.