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General questions: new way to create a new page. "New" meaning "several months ago."
''The 'How do I ask questions about Willipedia that aren't listed here?''' Email <email>wiki@wso.williams.edu</email> to contact the [[Wiki_board|Willipedia board]] is well aware that this page isn't very helpful now, which will answer your question promptly and may place it here. Please do post Alternately, you may add your questions herequestion to this page if you think seeing the answer is in the interest of the public, and be aware that we are working on a comprehensive page for this and other guiding necessitiesthe board or another user may answer it. We will post notice when we have made substantial improvements.''
==General questions==
'''Where should questions about Willipedia be directedHow do I add a page?'''There are two ways to add a page.# You can create a link to it from another page. Edit the page which will link to your new page, and put in something about the page you want to add, including its exact title enclosed in double square brackets, <code><nowiki>[[like this]]</nowiki></code>. Click "Save page" at the bottom, and you will see a link to your new page included on the existing page. This link will be red, since the new page does not yet exist. Clicking on it will allow you to create your new page. # Alternatively, put the title of the page you want to create in the text box on the left sidebar of every Willipedia page; then click on "Start this article."
<email>Important: before creating a new page, you should search the wiki@wsofor the term you want to be the title of your page; if it already exists, there's no need to recreate it.williams.edu</email> Alternately, you may add your question (Be sure to check for the same title with different capitalization; this page if should happen automatically when you think seeing the answer is in the interest of the publicsearch.)
'''How do I add delete a page?''' You don't. You can edit a page, you can even delete all the text on a page, but normal users cannot actually delete a page. The reason for this restriction is that deleting a page removes all of that page's edit history, which makes reversion or further improvement of that page impossible. Where possible, you should try to improve pages rather than annihilate them in this way. Currently, only members of the [[Willipedia board]] have the power to delete, and use it sparingly. If you think a page should be deleted, you can delete all the text on the page and put the word delete within two sets of curly brackets, like this: <code><nowiki>{{delete}}</nowiki></code>.
To add a page, you must first link it from another page. The first thing to do is to search the wiki for the term you want to be the title of your page; if it already exists, you can put double square brackets around the word, and then click Save page at the bottom, and then you will see the text of your title in red on the preexisting page. Click on that, and edit away; now you have your new page. In general, go to an existing page that is related to the page you want to add. Put in something about the page you want to add, including the exact title of the page you want to create, and put that in square brackets. Then do as above.
'''How do I delete upload a pagefile?'''
You don't. You can edit a page, you can even delete all the text on a page, but general users cannot delete a page because deleting a page removes all of that pages edit history, which makes reversion or further improvement of that page possible. Where possible, we should improve pages rather than annihilate them Log in this way. Currently, only members of and then go to the [[Wiki_boardSpecial:Upload|Willipedia boardfile uploading page]] have the power to delete, and use it sparingly. If you think a (This page should can be deleted, you can delete all the text accessed by clicking on "Special pages" at the top right of any Willipedia page , and put the word delete within two sets of curly bracketsthen selecting "Upload file.")
==Formatting questions==
''For a more exhaustive list, see [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/Help:Editing Editing help].'' '''I left lines between paragraphs of text, but my text is showing up as one big block. How do I format something like a poemfix it?'''
To make create a division between paragraphs skip a line (two carriage returns) in the wiki recognize single carraige returnsedit box. To indent text, preface each paragraph (or each line , in a poem) with a colon, like this . ''':Hi.''' produces:Hi.
'''How do I make something bold or italicized?'''
Italicized text has two single quotes (<code>'</code>) around on either side of it, <code><nowiki>''like this''</nowiki></code>. Bold text has threequotes on each side.
'''How do I offset a block of text, like a long quotation from another source?'''
At the beginning of the text block, put the word <code><nowiki><blockquote between >< /nowiki></code>. At the end, put it between <code><nowiki></ blockquote></nowiki></code>. '''What if I want to link to an articleIf the text block has multiple paragraphs, but I don't want to use the article's title or capitalization style as the linking word?''' Put do this [[ | ]]for each paragraph, with the actual title of the article in the space to the left of the line, and the words you want to appear in your article in the space to the right of the line. (The vertical line is often found below Backspace, and requires or use of the Shift keycolons as described above.)
'''What if I want to format something and the answer isn't here?'''
Go to a page that has the formatting you want, click on "Edit page," and see how it works there. Then click "back" so you don't change anything about the page. If you think many people would like to know the answer, add it to this section.
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