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{{seed}}[[Category:Help]][[:Category:Help|Help]] creating and editing articles
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* [[/new page|creating a new page]]
==Creating a New Page==
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* [[/layout|text formatting]]
# Go to the page you want the new page to be linked ''from''.
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* {{l/sub|page types}} and how to format them
# Click on the ''edit'' tab to edit the page. Add a link to the page you wish to create.
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* [[/upload|uploading images]] and other files
#: The way to create a link is to place the new page's title in brackets. <nowiki>[[Page title]]</nowiki>
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* [[Help:Sandbox]]: put whatever you want on this page, delete it, move it, whatever -- for tests and experiments
# Save the page. Your link will show up as a red link which, when clicked, will bring you to an edit page for your new page.
 
# Edit and save your new page.
 
 
 
We are investigating ways to have pages created more easily by filling in a form, which would be especially helpful for maintaining consistency across certain types of pages (e.g. [[:Category:Towns|Town]] pages should all have links to their parent county or country as well as being named according to some kind of rule.
 
==Formatting==
 
===Lists===
 
Edit this section to see the wikicode.
 
 
 
* Bulleted lists start each line with an asterisk
 
* For HTML people: this is like a &lt;ul&gt; list
 
** To indent further, repeat the asterisk...
 
*** ...like this
 
# Numbered lists begin with an octothorpe
 
# For HTML people: this is like an &lt;ol&gt; list
 
## You can also have numbered sub-lists
 
### ...and sub-sub-lists
 
## ...without losing the numbering...
 
# ...of any of the outer lists.
 
: colon just indents a line...
 
:: ...without any symbols or anything.
 
 
 
# A line break will restart the numbering
 
 
 
** If you do more than one character of additional indent per line,
 
**** you get repeated bullets
 
#### or numbers
 
**** on the same line.
 
 
 
# You can also...
 
#* ...mix and match; as far as I can tell...
 
* ...it's the final symbol...
 
*# ...which determines how the line is formatted.
 
 
 
; also:semicolon boldfaces everything up to the first colon, and puts the rest on the next line, indented
 
; stuff:this line explains about stuff
 
; things:but this line is about things!
 
; remember:don't get them confused.
 

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