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Welcome to the Nonbinary Wiki! This simple guide will take you through the first steps on your editing journey. Editing might seem overwhelming at first, but if you take it slow, you'll be creating new pages like nobody's business in no time! | Welcome to the Nonbinary Wiki! This simple guide will take you through the first steps on your editing journey. Editing might seem overwhelming at first, but if you take it slow, you'll be creating new pages like nobody's business in no time! | ||
== | == Before you get started... == | ||
If you are here, you probably want to learn how to contribute to the Nonbinary Wiki, and this page will guide you through the basics of wiki editing! In this section, we'll introduce you to the wiki interface, but first of all make sure you have an account. If you don't, click the [[Special:CreateAccount|''Create an account'']] link in the top right corner of this screen. Note that an account is not needed to edit most pages, but it's highly recommended (and free, no strings attached!). | |||
So, now that you have an account, you will see a set of links in the top right corner, mainly personal pages and settings. Clicking on your username will take you to your user page, which you can use as a profile, and ''Talk'' will take you to your messages page, where other editors can talk to you! But anyway, let's take a look at the article interface itself. | |||
More specifically, at the tabs that you will find on top of any page: | |||
[IMAGE PLACEHOLDER] | |||
There are several tabs here, but we are interested in two of them specifically. ''Discussion'' (the second one from the left) is the message board specific for that article. You can use it to discuss issues about the article with other editors. The other important tab is the ''Edit'' one, the fourth one from the left. Don't mind the ''Edit source'' one unless you have previous wiki-editing experience —whenever you want to edit a page, use the ''Edit'' tab. Alternatively, each section heading also has smaller ''edit | edit source'' links, which you can use if you want to edit a single section of an article. | |||
Ok, great! Now you know where to click to edit. Let's now talk about making your first edit on the Nonbinary Wiki! | |||
== Making your first edit == | == Making your first edit == | ||
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Welcome to the Nonbinary Wiki! This simple guide will take you through the first steps on your editing journey. Editing might seem overwhelming at first, but if you take it slow, you'll be creating new pages like nobody's business in no time!
Before you get started...
If you are here, you probably want to learn how to contribute to the Nonbinary Wiki, and this page will guide you through the basics of wiki editing! In this section, we'll introduce you to the wiki interface, but first of all make sure you have an account. If you don't, click the Create an account link in the top right corner of this screen. Note that an account is not needed to edit most pages, but it's highly recommended (and free, no strings attached!).
So, now that you have an account, you will see a set of links in the top right corner, mainly personal pages and settings. Clicking on your username will take you to your user page, which you can use as a profile, and Talk will take you to your messages page, where other editors can talk to you! But anyway, let's take a look at the article interface itself.
More specifically, at the tabs that you will find on top of any page:
[IMAGE PLACEHOLDER]
There are several tabs here, but we are interested in two of them specifically. Discussion (the second one from the left) is the message board specific for that article. You can use it to discuss issues about the article with other editors. The other important tab is the Edit one, the fourth one from the left. Don't mind the Edit source one unless you have previous wiki-editing experience —whenever you want to edit a page, use the Edit tab. Alternatively, each section heading also has smaller edit | edit source links, which you can use if you want to edit a single section of an article.
Ok, great! Now you know where to click to edit. Let's now talk about making your first edit on the Nonbinary Wiki!
Making your first edit
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Creating your first article
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How to prettify your edits
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Adding references
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They are very important.