Help:Editing

From TruthAboutIraq

The most obvious benefit to using a wiki for a project like the TruthAboutIraq is that it can be edited easily. First, we should familiarize you with some basic concepts about wiki editing:

• Almost every page in the wiki can be edited by clicking the edit tab at the top of the page.
• A new page can be created by adding a link on an existing page to a page that does not yet exist. (See below for how to actually do this.) Clicking the link you just created will bring you to a blank template for creating the new page.
• Don't worry that you might accidentally delete something important. All changes are archived on every page, so old versions can easily be recovered.
• Please use the summary field to describe the changes being made. This makes it easier to see what was done and compare pages when looking at the History of a page.
• More extensive information on editing is available from the Wikimedia site.

Here are some basic formatting tips to help you on your way.

Wiki text	Result
''italic''	italic
'''bold'''	bold
'''''bold and italic'''''	bold and italic
==heading== ===level 2=== ====level 3==== =====level 4=====	Headings in different sizes
[[Link to another page]] [[Link|different title]]	Internal Link to another page on the wiki
http://www.example.org [http://www.example.org Text]	External link Link with description
[[Category:Example]]	Add article to category “example“
----	horizontal line
* one * two * three	Bullet list
# one # two # three	Numbered list
[[Image:File.jpg|Text]] [[Image:File.jpg|frame|Text]] [[Image:File.jpg|thumb|Text]]	Image with alternative text Image aligned right with caption Thumbnail
--~~~	Signature (Link to userpage)
--~~~~	Signature with timestamp (date & time)
#REDIRECT [[Other article]]	Redirect to another article

(chart modified from one in use at Wikimedia)