How To Edit
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Getting an account
You'll need to head over to the message board, create an account there and join the wiki group and then you can come back here and edit all you like.
Editing a page
Click either:
- Existing page: click the Edit link at the top
- Non-existing page: Follow the link to the non-existing page. It will take you straight to an edit page.
If you are adding a new page, we have album Templates that you can use, so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel. There will be more templates coming as this wiki grows. You can also use the Sandbox to test out any changes that you want to make, if you are new to wikis.
After you complete your changes to the page, you can either preview or save the changes. Select "This is a minor edit" if it is something minor, like fixing a typographical error. When ready to save your changes, enter a summary, and press the Save Page button. Note: Unless you are adding a new page, or correcting a simple typo, be sure to enter a description of the edit in the Summary field. These show up in the change logs (including Recent Changes), making it easier for all users to see what's changed.
Linking to a Wiki Page
While editing a wiki page, put double square brackets around the text you wish to become a link. Example:
- [[Brand New Page]]
will create a new link that will function like this:
If you want to display a different phrase than the page name, you can use a pipe (|). The text before the pipe (|) is the page name. The text after the pipe is the label for that particular link. For example:
- [[Brand New Page|My Page]]
will display like this: My Page
You can create links like this: Somethings by writing [[Something]]s. The wiki is smart enough to include the 's' in the linked text. In nearly all cases trailing punctuation is ignored, so you can safely make links like http://www.epitaph.com, without the trailing comma being part of the link.
Creating a new link to another website
While editing a wiki page, put square brackets around the URL and the description text you wish to become a link. Example:
- [http://www.nofx.org NOFX Official Website]
will create a new link that will function like this:
Page, URL, and Image Links
Non-existing pages, like NOFX on MTV Cribs, will be displayed in red, indicating the page doesn't exist yet. Follow the link to create and edit the page. (If you create that example page it will probably be deleted.)
Inline image: http://www.no-eff-eks.com/images/misc/fuckmtv.jpg
Just type: http://www.no-eff-eks.com/images/misc/fuckmtv.jpg and it will be displayed.
Inline link: http://www.fatwreck.com/albumdetail.php3?cat_num=503
These are the same as images, just type the URL (address) of the page and it will be converted to a link.
Interwiki Links
When linking to an external wiki, you don't need to enter it as an external link. Instead, you can enter two brackets and the name of the wiki. Then, enter the page name at the other wiki, and close the brackets. The link to the external wiki will automatically be created.
Currently, we support the following interwiki links:
- Wikipedia
- Google (which is of course, not technically a wiki)
Here is an example: [[Wikipedia:NOFX|NOFX at wikipedia.org]] results in NOFX at wikipedia.org
Redirecting
If you ever need to change a page so that it redirects to another page, edit the page you want to redirect from, and use this command:
- #REDIRECT [[targetpagename]]
Note - The command must start at the first character of the first line of the page. REDIRECT must be in FULL CAPS. If the target page has spaces in its name, replace the spaces with underscores ( _ )