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Getting started is easy. Just create an account using the '''login/create account''' link at the upper right. Then send an e-mail to '''brted at yahoo period com''' to be confirmed. Once you are confirmed you will see an '''edit''' tab at the top of the page that will let you edit the page. If you see some kind of formatting you like on some page you can just edit that page and see how it was done. Here are a few of the basics, but you can see a lot more [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples here]. | Getting started is easy. Just create an account using the '''login/create account''' link at the upper right. Then send an e-mail to '''brted at yahoo period com''' to be confirmed. Once you are confirmed you will see an '''edit''' tab at the top of the page that will let you edit the page. If you see some kind of formatting you like on some page you can just edit that page and see how it was done. Here are a few of the basics, but you can see a lot more [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples here]. | ||
==Discussion Pages== | |||
Even if you don't want to edit a page, feel free to add comments, suggestions, or questions to the Discussion tab of a page (you have to register and confirm for this too, since discussion pages are frequent spam targets). Sign your comment by adding 4 tilde's at the end like this <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, which looks like this (and gets converted to markup when you save the page): [[User:Brted|Brted]] 17:37, 7 December 2010 (EST) | |||
When editing a page, even if it is something simple, '''always preview the changes before saving,''' but always remember to save after you preview. | When editing a page, even if it is something simple, '''always preview the changes before saving,''' but always remember to save after you preview. | ||