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Creating a new page in the wiki

New wiki pages are created when you make a link to them from an existing page.

So all you need to do to create a new page for yourself is click the "edit" tab above and add a link to an existing page. A nice page to add links to create new pages will open up if you click your name in the top right corner of the screen.

Your new link should look like this (you'll see the other links formatted this way in wiki code when you are editing):
*[[text of your page title]]

• * asterisk is a bullet.
• # pound sign makes a numbered list.
• [[]] double square brackets make a link.

Links are the text that is enclosed in double square brackets: [[link]]

1. Click the "edit" tab above to edit this (or any) page,
2. create your link by typing the page title in double square brackets,
3. click "Save page,"
4. click on your new link, and
5. the page will open ready to edit.

Once you save the page you just created, that page will exist in the wiki, and you can visit it to edit it however you like.

Note: make sure the link is a title that you like, because the text of your link will be the name of the page, and that name will show at the top when the page is viewed. (You can change that later too, but it is a multi-step process, so it's better to start off with a title you want to keep).

For more information about how to write wiki formatting code (it's easy!) look at this page.

Adding pages to categories

Add the following line to a page, and it will automatically be added to the category:

[[Category:Name]]

For example, every user has a category and those categories all are in the Cooks category. So when people click on the word "Cooks" in the sidebar at the left there, you'll be there. If in turn you click on your category, you'll see a list of all pages in your category (meaning pages that contain the category tag as above).

Adding your recipe to the recipes category

Same deal with your recipe pages:

Add this line:

[[Category:Recipes]]

to each recipe page, and they'll be in the recipe category, so when you click the "recipes" link on the left, your recipes will be there with the rest!

You can create a category just by including the category link to it, by the way. So you could create categories for things like "sweet" or "spicy" or "saucy," for example.

When viewing a page with a category link, clicking the category link will take you to the full list of all pages in that category.

Formatting your pages

You can copy the contents of the Recipe Template page and paste them into your new page to format it easily.

For the most part when making your pages, you can also:

1. go to any page of a similar layout to the one you want to create,
2. click the edit tab,
3. copy all the text from the editing window,
4. paste it into your new page, and
5. edit the page text to your content.

That way it is easy to format.

Uploading images

You can upload a file by clicking the "Upload file" link under "Toolbox" on the left sidebar. Browse to select your file and upload it.

Adding images to pages

To add a picture you've uploaded to a page, add the following line at the top or bottom of your page: [[File:PictureName.png|200px|thumb|left]]

• "PictureName.png" should be changed to the name of the uploaded file - you can see this on the upload complete page, or by clicking the Recent changes link on the left if you just uploaded the picture and forgot what it was renamed to (files will be renamed to remove spaces in file names when they are uploaded).
• 200px is the default size, you can change this or leave it out.
• thumb means the image displayed will be a little thumbnail.
• left is the default alignment. You can also use Right or Center.

SUPER IMPORTANT notes about wiki!

1. You can edit anyone's pages. So bear that in mind and be careful when editing. This is a nice feature because it allows you to leave comments on other people's recipes, but it is kind of dangerous!

2. An easy way to sign and datestamp your comments or other work is to type in four tildes in a row, like:

   ~~~~

   I think that is my favorite wiki tag at the moment because it generates useful text from an adorable squiggly line.

Confused?

Please click the "discussion" tab above and leave a comment there if any of this is unclear.


WikiSysop 06:05, 31 October 2009 (UTC)