Help:Editing
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This article provides a quick introduction to editing pages within this wiki. The full documentation for NYC Film Wiki is elsewhere.
If you are new to wikis in general, you probably need a short primer. Wikis are systems for simple, collaborative management of online content. In a wiki, every user can author and modify pages, in many cases even without logging in. To describe how a page should look, one uses a simple text-format with some special commands to express important features such as links to other pages or enumerations.
Quicklinks:
- Help:QuickReference (Cheatsheet)
- Complete editing help http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing from Wikipedia
- If you want to experiment, feel free to do so in the Sandbox
- Help documentation for NYC Film Wiki
To edit a page, just click on the edit link above each article. If you want to experiment, feel free to do so in the Sandbox. During editing, you can press the Show preview button below each page to see the current state. When you are done, press Save page to store the result. The new page becomes available immediately to all users. But do not worry: Every change can be undone, and the complete page history is preserved. You cannot do any harm by editing some page!
For an introduction on how to edit pages in detail, see the editing help. Since Wikipedia is based on the same software that powers http://directory.nycfilm.com, usage is mostly similar. Once you know the basics of editing, the Help:QuickReference provides a more convenient reference for the most important statements.
To get started, you might want to edit the article about yourself: enter your full name (in its normal writing, including spaces) into the search field on the left. If the page exists you can go right there to update the information about yourself. If there is no article of that name already, you can create it by choosing create this article in the result page. The simplest way to quickly get a personal page is to copy the source of someone elses page and to modify it accordingly. The Template:Person used on most personal pages classifies your page so that it is listed among all persons.
Have fun!
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[edit] Making links
To make an internal link, one that points to another page on this wiki, whether it exists or not, use double-brackets:
I like visiting the [[New York City]] page. --> I like visiting the New York City page.
You can also give the link a different name by adding a "|name" to it, for example:
You may want to check out the [[New York City|NYC Information]] page. --> You may want to check out the NYC Information page.
To link to an external URL, you can simply include it and it will automatically be linked. If you'd like to give it a title, put the URL between brackets, followed by the title. For example:
There's more info about my company at http://www.google.com --> There's more info about my company at http://www.google.com
Don't forget the [http://nytimes.com/ New York Times] website. --> Don't forget the New York Times website.
[edit] Text formatting
You can use bold and italics in your text by using single apostrophes:
Two apostrophes is ''italic'', and three is '''bold''' -->Two apostrophes is italic, and three is bold
You can make bullet-point and numbered lists by using * and # respectively:
* A bullet point * Another bullet point! ** A sub-bullet point # A numbered list # The next number
[edit] Using images
If you'd like to add an image to a page, first you have to upload it. Make sure you are uploading pictures that are either not copyrighted, or can be used under fair use!
Once you've uploaded the picture, return to your article and add it by using
[[Image:imagename.jpg]]
If you want to have it be a thumbnail, and align nicely inside the page, you can do so easily by using wiki markup like
[[Image:imagename.jpg|right|thumb|This is the image caption]]
