Help:Editing

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Help creating and editing articles

Creating a New Page

1. Go to the page you want the new page to be linked from.
2. Click on the edit tab to edit the page. Add a link to the page you wish to create.

   The way to create a link is to place the new page's title in brackets. [[Page title]]

3. 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.
4. 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. 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 <ul> list
  • To indent further, repeat the asterisk...
    • ...like this

1. Numbered lists begin with an octothorpe
2. For HTML people: this is like an <ol> list
   1. You can also have numbered sub-lists
      1. ...and sub-sub-lists
   2. ...without losing the numbering...
3. ...of any of the outer lists.

colon just indents a line...

...without any symbols or anything.

1. A line break will restart the numbering

• • If you do more than one character of additional indent per line,
    • • you get repeated bullets

1. 1. 1. 1. or numbers

• • • • on the same line.

1. You can also...
   • ...mix and match; as far as I can tell...

• ...it's the final symbol...
  1. ...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.