Wazeopedia:Beginners guide

Create your user page

Don't be scared by the wiki. For most of the things we do, just click on edit and start typing. Start with your very own personal page. See your name at the top of the wiki page? Is it red? That means it links to a page that exist yet. When you go to a red link, the wiki can create it for you. So click on your user name above. Click inside the editing box. Start typing. Hit preview. Like it? Hit save. Congratulations. You created a wiki page. This is your user page.

Edit a page

Go to your user page. See the edit tab at the top of the page. Click it. Start typing in the editing box. Use the show Preview button .Push the changes button to see what you have changed. Save. That's it. You can stop reading this tutorial right now. Ask someone else to help wikify your work.

History of changes

Look at your user page. Click the history tab at the top. How many versions are there? Compare the two versions to see the changes.

Create a wiki link

Right back to this page just in case you forget. Edit your user page. Type this. [[waze:Beginners guide]]. A wiki link goes to another page in the same wiki. It is surrounded by double square brackets [[]]. Inside is the page you want to link to. In wiki links, only use the page title. Would you like a link label? After the page title, use a pipe | and then the link label, like this: [[waze:Beginners guide|link label]]

Create an external link

Copy a link from the forum. Put it in single square brackets.

Add some formatting.

Edit your page. Try out the formatting icons above the editing box. Click on Advanced to open it. Add some headings. Try bold, italic, and underline. Add some lists. Use Special characters. Go crazy -- this is just practice. click help. Try things out.

Use a wiki template

Mbox?

Use a wiki magic word.

Edit your user page. Type this into your user page: {{FULLPAGENAME}}. Preview. What do you see? It should be the same as the name of your page. You will often see magic words in wiki pages.

Create a new subpage

Sometimes you need to work on material before it is ready to put into the wiki mainspace where they go live and searchable. You can create a page or two and work on them for a while.
Edit your user page. Copy this in: [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}/sandbox]]. Preview. Save. Follow that new link. Type something into it. Preview. Save. Another page created. The sandbox can be a useful place to experiment.

All your pages

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