Help:Editing
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Easy editing of pages is what wikis are made for. It only takes a few clicks.
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Editing new pages
If the page you wish to edit does not exist yet, see Help:Starting a new page
Editing existing pages
- Click the edit page tab
- Make changes to the text in the edit box. Make sure you write clearly and concisely, and make sure your edit does something to improve the page. If you're making normal changes to the text like fixing spelling mistakes or grammar, inserting new sentences, etc, then you don't have to worry too much about formatting. When you do need to use some type of formatting, you do it using wiki syntax, see Help:Formatting for some of the common types of formatting used.
- Optionally, enter a short note in the Summary box describing your changes.
- Optionally preview your changes with the Preview button.
- Click the Save page button.
Discussion
Every article has its own discussion-page, where you can ask questions, make suggestion or discuss about corrections. Click the discussion page tab to reach it. You can sign your message by writing 4 tildes (~~~~). The wikisoftware turns them into the current time and your username.
Wiki markup
GenieWiki uses a special syntax called Wikitext or Wiki markup to do nearly anything in articles. Wiki markup is especially designed to be easy to use.
Basic formatting
Text can be emphasised by surrounding it with apostrophes.
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''italicised text''(Like this) -
'''bolded text'''(Like this) -
'''''italicised and bolded text'''''(Like this)
Headings
Headings (Such as "Headings" above) are used to divide a page into sections.
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= First-level heading =(Should almost never be used, equivalent to the page title at the top of this page.) -
== Second-level heading ==(The most common heading level, equivalent to "Wiki markup" above.) -
=== Third-level heading ===(A subsection.) -
==== Fourth-level heading ====(A subsubsection, should be avoided if possible.) -
===== Fifth-level heading =====(Should almost never be used.)
Bullet points
Lists, such as unit lists, can be given in simple point form using asterisks.
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* Item 1 -
* Item 2 -
* Item 3
Links
See Help:Links
You can easily insert links to a page on GenieWiki, on another wiki, or on the Internet.
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[[wikilink]](Link to a page on GenieWiki by surrounding the page in double square brackets. You can also create a link to another page using text other than the page title:[[wikilink|click here]].) -
[http://example.org](Link to a page on the Internet by surrounding the URL with single square brackets. Doing so will create a bracketed number resembling [1]. You can link using text by adding a space after the URL followed by the desired text:[http://example.org click here].)
Categories
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[[Category:Category name]](Add the current page to a category if you know which category it belongs to. For example this page belongs to Category:GenieWiki help)
