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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 | 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]. | ||
==Headings== | ==Headings== | ||
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==Links and New Pages== | ==Links and New Pages== | ||
Internal links: | Internal links: For a link to another page on the wiki, put double brackets around the name of a page: <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page]]</nowiki></tt> 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 <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page|Flashlight Wiki]]</nowiki></tt> and it will appear like this: [[Main Page|Flashlight Wiki]]. You can also link to a subsection of a page by using # in the link like this: <tt><nowiki>[[Main Page#Flashlights|Flashlight sub-section]]</nowiki></tt>, to get this link: [[Main Page#Flashlights|Flashlight sub-section]] | ||
External links: Use single brackets followed by the | External links: Use single brackets followed by a space and the text of the hyperlink: <tt><nowiki>[http://www.google.com Google]</nowiki></tt> to get a link that looks like [http://www.google.com Google] | ||
To create a '''new page''', just edit an existing page, insert | To create a '''new page''', just edit an existing page, insert an internal 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== | |||
[[File:Creexpgr5.jpg|thumb|The caption goes here]][[File:Creexpgr5.jpg|thumb|300px|left|The caption goes here]]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'''. | [[File:Creexpgr5.jpg|thumb|The caption goes here]][[File:Creexpgr5.jpg|thumb|300px|left|The caption goes here]]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'''. | ||