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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 option to edit pages. If you see some kind of formatting you want to include on a 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 here.

Headings

You can make a heading like the one above by using == like this: ==Headings==. To get a sub-heading, use triple equals like this: ===Subheading===. Always start with a heading and subdivide to sub-headings as needed. An outline at the beginning of the page will be created automatically based on the heading structure. You don't need to start the page with the title, it will be added in automatically.

Links and New Pages

Internal links: Just edit a page and put double brackets around the name of a page: [[Main Page]] and it will show up as a link, like this Main Page. If you want to have the link appear with different text, use a | like this [[Main Page|Flashlight Wiki]] and it will appear like this: Flashlight Wiki. You can also link to a subsection of a page by using # in the link like this: [[Main Page#Flashlights|Flashlight sub-section]], to get this link: Flashlight sub-section

External links: Use single brackets followed by the name of the link: [http://www.google.com Google] to get a link that looks like Google

To create a new page, just edit an existing page, insert a link to the new page, save the page, then click on the red link that appears and it should open an editing screen for the new page.

Images

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Please restrict image size to more than 800x600 with only rare exceptions. Before editing a page, upload the picture file first (and remember the name!) using the Upload file link on the left side of the page under toolbox.

The image on the page will probably be smaller than the original image. By default you can use a thumbnail which will be about 200 pixels max. Also you will want to add a caption to the tag as well. The resulting tag might look like this (with the result shown to the right):

[[File:Creexpgr5.jpg|thumb|The caption goes here]]

If you wanted a larger version of the image, you can specify the width of the image. The tag below will generate a 300 pixel image (you still want to use "thumb" so that it will be in a border with a link to the full-size image) and align it on the left instead of the default right side (image appears to the left):

[[File:Creexpgr5.jpg|thumb|300px|left|The caption goes here]]