Help:Starting a New Page
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Anyone can contribute in the development of WikiCollegeFootball, however certain techniques and rules must be considered before creating any article. In this section, here are some tips in creating a new article.
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Creating a New Page
- Search this site for an existing article, and if you found an article that is exactly the same as you intend to write, then read it first.
- If you found it full of errors you could edit it. Just be sure that you know what you are placing there.
- If you are not sure, please refer to the section in this page entitled Talk
- If you searched for an article and found nothing, well this is your luck day! You can click the "create this page" link and start writing. However:
- it is important that you create an account first to give you more priviledges such as adding images, etc.
- also, please follow the [[Help:Manual of Style|manual of style.
- please avoid vandalism
- While creating the page and before saving it, check the What links here link on the creation page. Align the new content with existing links, or change the new title, or fix the other links.
- If nothing points here, the page is isolated. Links to it will need to be added on other pages.
Starting a Page From a Red Link
Links to non-existing pages are common. They are typically created in preparation for creating the page, and/or to encourage other people to do so. Links are not only convenient for navigation, but also make people aware of the new page (those who read a related page and also those who watch the related page). New page links are not really broken, as long as the name correctly identifies the intended content.
New page links typically look different from links to existing pages. Depending on settings, a different color or a question mark is used. (Sometimes links to new pages are called "red links", the display option of one of the settings). Links to non-existent pages are created with the New Page Name from the wiki editor. (In this case, the empty page "New page name" would be created).
Of course, you can also create the link yourself, in a related page, index page or your user page. However, it may be better to wait with creating links until after creating the new page, especially if the new link replaces one to an existing page. In this case, create the link but press Preview, instead of Save. From preview area, clicking the new link will create the new page (without updating the referring page).
Starting a New Page with a URL
Using the browser address bar to enter a URL to a new page is an easy way to start the new page process. Easier still is editing the pagename part of a URL for an existing page. The default page has the usual Edit this page link, which can be used to begin adding content.
An interwiki link to a non-existent page gives the same result, but is not recommended.
To get access to a MediaWiki project page, with the links at the edges but without the superfluous loading of a page, use a bookmark to a non-existing page. The default 'no article' page will display the edge links.
Talk
A lot of people get started on Wikicollegefootball because they are reading an article that they don't like. If you are sure of what you are putting, then edit it, but if you don't, then maybe you might want to go to the "discussion" page associated with the article and hit the "+" button (all of the buttons we mantion are on the top of the page). You are free to make comments on things that you think need changes. Just remeber to put "~ ~ ~ ~" at the end of your comment to timestamp it.
Ading Videos / Usage
The EmbedVideo parser function expects to be called in either of the following ways:
- {{#ev:service|id}} -or-
- {{#ev:service|id|width}}
Where:
- service is the name of a video sharing service.
- id is the id of the video to include
- width (optional) is the width in pixels of the viewing area (height will be determined automatically)
For example, to include the famous "evolution of dance" YouTube video, you'd enter:
{{#ev:youtube|dMH0bHeiRNg}}
And if you wanted scaled down to thumbnail size, you could use:
{{#ev:youtube|dMH0bHeiRNg|100}}
Note: See the Project Homepage for more examples.
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