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Welcome to LO-Wiki Wiki Getting Started Guide

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[edit] Basic Editing Instructions

Editing this Wiki isn't that hard, really, it mostly involves typing as you normally would in text boxes. Try the following method for adding and editing a new page:

  1. Click on the the link at the top of the page that has Your name (IMPORTANT: be sure to be logged in as yourself first)
  2. If you've not entered any text previously in this page, you will enter the editing mode immediately; otherwise click the Edit tab the near the top of the page if page
  3. Type in the name of the page you want to create in between double brackets: [[The LO-Wiki Wiki Document blah blah]] (which creates: The LO-Wiki Wiki Document blah blah)
  4. Click on "save"; look at your edits on the preview page, and save again.
  5. Click on the new red link you just created to edit the new page.
  6. Write whatever you want in the text box that comes up (or paste in the text of a document you've been working on), add any necessary wiki markup (e.g., ''' on either side of some text will make the text bold).
  7. Document your changes in the one-line "Summary" field; then press save (twice, as before), and the new page now exists.

Hint: to examine how any effect was achieved on any page, just click the "edit" tab for that page and have a look. Wiki markup is pretty simple and self-explanatory.

[edit] More Detailed Instructions

Please consult How to edit a page for further instructions for how to edit this Wiki.

Detailed instructions for using MediaWiki (which the LO-Wiki Wiki is based on) can be found at User's Guide.

Technical documentation for customizing the MediaWiki interface can be found at documentation on customizing the interface.

[edit] Instructions for Adding Images & Attachments

Uploading and embedding internally referenced images

Adding In-line Externally Referenced Images

Embedding external images

[edit] Templates

Use templetes to add boilerplate content and navigation into a page. To add a template, embed a tag into your page with the following syntax: {{<template name>}}, where <template name> = the name of the template.

A list of templates can be found at: LO-Wiki Wiki Templates

[edit] Categories

Assigning a Category to you page will automatically list your page withing the correponding Category Page. To assign your page to a category, embed a tag into your page with the following syntax: [[Category:<category name>]], where <catgeory name> = the name of the category. You may assign multiple categories to your page.

A list of all categories defined within this Wiki may be found at: Categories. If assign a category that doesn't yet exist, a new category will be created automatically.