Help:Contents

Guidelines & Tips for Creating Tutorials

When creating or editing content:

• Provide links to the tutorial from other wiki pages on this site if applicable.
• Provide links from your tutorial to other wiki pages on this site if applicable.

Here are several resources to help in creating/editing Wiki pages:

• Quick reference guide for editing wiki pages
• User's Guide - information on using the wiki software.
• MediaWiki FAQ

NOTE: Please use the "preview" feature to make sure that your changes look right before saving the page. You may also want to try the Sandbox out, where you can edit things without breaking anything.

Note: the help section is being actively updated and may have broken links

MediaWiki is a free software wiki engine licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is used by many websites, including this one. On these help pages, you will find both a reader and an editors guide for using MediaWiki.

For readers

Navigating Searching What links here Random page Special pages Printable version	Tracking Recent changes Watching pages Page history Diff Contributions	Accounts Logging in Preferences User style

For editors

Editing Start new page Page name Protected page	Referencing Links Piped links Interwiki linking URLs Anchors Footnotes	Formatting Lists Tables HTML in wikitext Image & File upload Image page Formulae	Organizing Sections Categories Redirects Namespaces Renaming (moving) Page size
Fixing mistakes Reverting edits Testing	Saving effort Editing shortcuts Edit toolbar Magic words Templates Variables	Communicating Edit summary Talk page Edit conflict Minor edit	Other Special characters Editing FAQ