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The tool that you have in your hands is a [[MediaWiki]], the same that is
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being used in projects such as [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] or
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[http://sharewiki.org/ ShareWiki].
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To start a new page and/or add a new article, you just need to put in the
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address bar, behind "wiki" and a slash (/), name of the page you wish to
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create.
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Example:
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<nowiki>http://en.blogxpopuli.org/wiki/New Page</nowiki>
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The other way is, if you are editing already existing article, to put a
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new page name in between square brackets:
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<nowiki>[[New Page]]</nowiki>.
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At the beginning and as long as the content of a new page is not edited,
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the link will appear red. Once edited, link becomes blue indicating that
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the page has a content.
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When you are on a new page, press ''edit'' button ... and you can start to
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edit!
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Under the edit box you will find two buttons: ''Save changes'' and ''Show
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preview''. Use the second one to preview the edited text and first one to
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save it, once you are sure it is ready.
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Creating and editing pages follow the guidelines:
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* Make sure the page you want to create doesn't exist already with similar
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name or that there are none with similar content to avoid repetition
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* Link pages that already exist into this wiki or ones that are external ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Links_and_URLs Links and URLs])
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* If you are documenting a program or a server, use following templates:
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** [[Program Article Template]]
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** [[Server Article Template]]
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* Add categories at the end of the article
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* Add links to articles in other languages
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Useful links:
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction_2
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*http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Help
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[[Category:MediaWiki:Help]]
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[[ca:Com començar una pàgina]]
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[[es:Cómo empezar una página]]
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Revision as of 04:22, 8 January 2010

Howdy!

I am fairly new to this forum and just wanted to introduce myself and say "hi".

Chau.

Chery S.

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