Create a Page: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:23, 3 June 2011

Available Tools

Page Layout helps to standardize the look of pages
Tool Box shows you wiki markup for the effect you need
Typographical_Guidelines standardizes markup for use in translation, either to official manuals (DocBook) or to other languages.

Deciding where to create your page

Many people choose to draft a page on their own Talk page, then move the result to the desired site. Sometimes there is a good reason for preferring to do it in the final location. If that is the case, consider using before your content {{Construction}} which will display

Under Construction

This is a new page, currently under construction!

Wiki Structure

For the convenience of users we try to avoid creating a structure more than three levels deep, avoiding having to type long paths for page names. For most purposes, the following guide will suffice:

Application
Application/Troubleshooting
Application/xxx-How-To
Application/Manual
Application/Manual/Introduction
Application/Manual/Section_1
Application/Manual/Section_xxx

Workflow

Navigate to a page, which will contain a link to your new page
Edit this page and insert a link to a new, not yet existing page like this: [[My New Page]]
Write a one-line summary of what you changed
Hit the Preview button and check your work
Save your edits.

Now the page shows a red colored link to your upcoming page. A click on this link will send you directly to your new page and will open the edit box.

Note

A double-Enter is required to make a new paragraph. Please use this after any heading, as it puts headings in a separate translation unit which is preferred by translators using external tools.

Note

If you are making frequent edits to your page, please use either {{Construction}} or {{Being_Edited}} so that translators and other contributors know to wait until you are finished.

Warning

Avoid using text smilies as they cause problems for translation applications (due to unbalanced parentheses). Instead use {{Smiley}}

Other smilies can be found on [Commons Wikimedia] and the file-name is sufficient to get the image included

Note

For help about editing existing pages read Modify a Page.

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 {{Note|A double-Enter is required to make a new paragraph.  Please use this after any heading, as it puts headings in a separate translation unit which is preferred by translators using external tools.}}
 {{Note|If you are making frequent edits to your page, please use either <nowiki>{{Construction}}</nowiki> or <nowiki>{{Being_Edited}}</nowiki> so that translators and other contributors know to wait until you are finished.}}
-{{Warning|Avoid using text smilies as they cause problems for translation applications (due to unbalanced parentheses).  Instead use <nowiki>[[Image:Face-smile.png]]</nowiki>  [[Image:Face-smile.png]]  Other smilies can be found on [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=smilies&fulltext=1 Commons Wikimedia]] and the file-name is sufficient to get the image included}}
+{{Warning|Avoid using text smilies as they cause problems for translation applications (due to unbalanced parentheses).  Instead use <nowiki>{{Smiley}}</nowiki>  {{Smiley}}  Other smilies can be found on [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=smilies&fulltext=1 Commons Wikimedia]] and the file-name is sufficient to get the image included}}
 {{Note|For help about editing existing pages read [[Modify a Page]].}}
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