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The VDFWiki is a place for all VDF Developers to contribute their knowledge for the greater good. Anyone who visits this website is invited to make a contribution. This page contains a few tips for those who are new to the world of wikis. | |||
=== Editing === | Don't be afraid to have a go at something. The worst that can happen is that someone else will either revert your contribution, or tidy it up to meet some standards of the site. | ||
==Getting started contributing content== | |||
===Editing=== | |||
The wiki allows you to edit any page by clicking the 'edit' tab. | The wiki allows you to edit any page by clicking the 'edit' tab. | ||
===Adding a new page=== | |||
=== Adding a new page === | |||
To add a new page you need to find an existing page and place a link to a new page on that . | To add a new page you need to find an existing page and place a link to a new page on that . | ||
You can create a link using | You can create a link using | ||
<pre> | |||
[[<link name>]] | |||
</pre> | |||
When trying to link to an existing page, remember that the links are case sensitive, so ''VDF'' doesn't equal ''vdf''. | |||
If the link name isn't descriptive enough, then you can make it more so by adding some more text: | |||
<pre> | |||
[[<link name>|<description>]] | |||
</pre> | |||
Links that are blue already exist, while read ones are pages that haven't been created. If you click on a red link, you are taken to the edit screen where you can start writing. | |||
So when you add to the wiki, you first create a link to the page and then you add the page (not the other way around which is the normal way in most systems). | So when you add to the wiki, you first create a link to the page and then you add the page (not the other way around which is the normal way in most systems). | ||
== More advanced things == | == More advanced things == | ||
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For example (again, without spaces) | For example (again, without spaces) | ||
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[ [Category:<some category> ] ] [ [ Category:<some other category> ] ] | [[Category:<some category>]] [[Category:<some other category>]] | ||
</pre> | |||
To mark that one category is a subcategory of another, click on the link to go to your category page, and in there edit the category page itself to add a 'category' tag to where it should point. | To mark that one category is a subcategory of another, click on the link to go to your category page, and in there edit the category page itself to add a 'category' tag to where it should point. | ||
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Remember to put your category at the bottom of the edited text. | Remember to put your category at the bottom of the edited text. | ||
[[Category: VDFWiki]] | |||
