Help:About

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Localized Help

Help:Feedback

Here are some help sections available:

Help:About - (This file)
Help:Logging in
Help:Tutorial - Basic

Help for Features of this site.

Some helpful other reference material

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About Wiki and FAQ

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How Do I Edit a Page?

This site is locked to outside editing. If you are interested in contributing, please send me Help:Feedback .

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Quick Reference, most common commands used

[[Wiki Page name]] To add a link to page.
=== Section Name === , To add a Section or Header,
# in the first column of each line, To add a numbered list,
* in the first column of each line, To Add a dotted list,
' ' (i.e. space) in first or more columns, To Indent a line and (force a 'box' around it)

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Change Control

Wikis generally follow a philosophy of making it easy to fix mistakes, rather than making it hard to make them. Thus, while wikis are very open, they also provide various means to verify the validity of recent additions to the body of pages. The most prominent one on almost every wiki is the so-called Recent Changes page, which displays a list of either a specific number of recent edits or a list of all edits that have been made within a given timeframe. Some wikis allow the list to be filtered so that minor edits - or edits that have been made by automatic importing scripts ("bots") - can be excluded.

From the change log, two other functions are accessible in most wikis: the revision history, which shows previous versions of the page, and the diff feature, which can highlight the changes between two revisions. The revision history allows an editor to open and save a previous version of the page and thereby restore the original content. The diff feature can be used to decide whether this is necessary or not. A regular user of the wiki can view the diff of a change listed on the "Recent changes" page and, if it is an unacceptable edit, consult the history to restore a previous revision.

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