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Wiki Editing Tutorial

Some folks may want to contribute but find it difficult to edit pages. This is the place for you!

Below you will find step-by-step instructions on how to create and edit pages.

Step One: Click the "Edit this Page" Link

Look carefully at the top left corner of this page; right under the blue HOME button. You'll see a link called "Edit this Page." Click it to begin editing any page in the wiki.

Step Two: Working with the table on the home page.

A table is "bookended" between table tags that look like this:

{table}

the first | row is | formated as | a heading

cells | are separated | by vertical | lines

start | each new | row on a | new line

don't worry| about the | lines aligning | properly

they | will do | that | automatically

you can | leave blank | | cells and

add | new | rows as | needed

{table}

Don't put in the "extra rows" between lines. They are here just to make this more readable. The "code" above will make a table that looks like this:

the	first row is	formated as	a heading
cells are	separated	by vertical	lines
start	each new	row on a	new line
don't worry	about the	lines aligning	properly
they	will do	that	automatically
you can	leave blank		cells and
add	new	rows as	needed

Step Three: Creating Links and new pages

[this text will be a hyperlink>this is the name of the wikipage page to link to]

To create a link to an existing page, like the HUMOUR page, the code looks like this:

[hyperlink text>Humour]

Those square brackets and the ">" are the keys to writing links. The above code will make a link that looks like this:

hyperlink text

Clicking on the link will take you to the Humour page of this wiki. Try it then click the back button in your browser to come back here ....

If you want to link to a page outside the wiki, like my blog, the code looks like this:

[link to my blog>http://adifference.blogspot.com]

Here's how it translates:

link to my blog

To create a new page just type a "new" page name after the ">". This will automatically create a new page on the wiki that you can edit any way you like.

[link to your contribution>NewPage]

After you SAVE your changes, you'll see a question mark next to the link you made. As soon as you create content for that link (by clicking on it) it will turn into an ordinary link. Something like this:

link to your contribution?

Please leave the above link unedited so that the next person can learn from this tutorial. Thanks.