Help:Starting a new page

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There are several ways to start a new page

Page Names Rules

Before knowing how to make pages, we'll tell which names are valid or not. Please follow these guidelines, it will ease everyone's life. The goal is to avoid conflicts and duplicate pages for same idea.

About case in titles :

• The first letter will always be an uppercase letter. If you put a lowercase, it'll be converted into uppercase.
• When a page doesn't exist, please always click on search link to be sure that page doesn't exist with another case.
• All words should start with a capital letter (WindowsTans) - that allows to differentiate words.
• All acronyms should be in capital letters. (Acronym : letters that stand for a word) (Windows95OSR25)
• Never use other than alphanumerical chars : a-z A-Z 0-9 ( - _ are never used then)
• The dot . is used to separate numbers or for floating numbers. (and only for that)

Note : the special chars can be used if they are legitimate part of a name :

• C-Chan, or any nick or name that contains a minus sign -
• Any email (i wonder why an email would be a page but... would be Admin@ostan-collections.net in that case, notice emails are all lowercase but the first letter)
• It would be also correct if it's used for suffixes (like http://ostan-collections.net/wiki/-Tan ) or prefixes (like http://ostan-collections.net/wiki/Prefix- )

Using Wikilinks

MediaWiki makes it very easy to link wiki pages using a standard syntax (see Links). If you (or anyone else) creates a link to an article that doesn't exist yet, the link will be coloured red, span style=color: #ba0000like this/span.

Clicking a red link, will take you to the edit page for the new article. Simply type your text, click save and the new page will be created.

Once the page has been created, the link will change from span style=color: #ba0000red/span to span style=color: #002bb8;blue/span (span style=color: #5a3696;purple/span for pages you've visited) indicating that the article now exists.

Using the URL

You can use the wiki's URL for creating a new page. The URL to an article of the wiki is usually something like this:

• codenowikihttp://www.my-wiki.org/index.php//nowikiARTICLE/code nbsp;nbsp; or
• codenowikihttp://www.my-wiki.org/wiki//nowikiARTICLE/code

If you replace codeARTICLE/code with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet. Clicking the edit page tab at the top of the page will take you to the edit page for that article, where you can create the new page by typing your text, and clicking submit.

From the search page

If you search for a page that doesn't exist (using the search box and 'go' button on the left of the page) then you will be provided with a link to create the new page. (Note that this technique doesn't work if you use the 'search' button).

Create redirects to your new page

Don't forget to setup redirects when you create a page. If you think another person may search for the page you've created by using a different name or spelling, please create the proper redirect(s).

To create a redirect, the first line of the page should read nowiki#REDIRECT Destination/nowiki where Destination is the page to which people should be redirected. This must appear as the very first line of the page.

Protect your new page

If desired, once you create your new page, you should protect the page and allow only the type of users you would like to edit the page.