Help:Editing

Basic formatting
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(within the wiki)  Tigu 

 The first pet released 

 Tigus and Tugis  Tigu

The first pet released

Tigus and Tugis  Heading   Heading  Scrolls current page down to linked heading. Goes to linked page, then scrolls to heading.  Category:Ships</tt> Places the page in Category:Ships
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(to other websites)  Text to display </tt>

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A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.  == Level 1 == </tt>

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<tt>## Two point one</tt>

<tt># Three</tt>

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Creating a page
There are three ways to create a new page on the Star Atlas Wiki:


 * 1) You can simply type the name of the new page you wish to create into the Search box on the left navigation menu. If the page does not currently exist, the page displayed will advise you that There is no page titled "[page you searched for]". You can create this page. Click the create this page link to create the new page.
 * 2) You can navigate to the URL of the new page directly. For example, typing out  http://staratlaswiki.org/wiki/New_page  into your browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will take you to a New page document. On that page you can click the Create tab to bring up the editing box.
 * 3) Any page that contains a red link indicates that the page does not exist. Clicking on the link will take you to a page where the first version can be written and saved.

Saving pages
Once edited, before actually saving your changes, make good use of the 'Show preview' button to preview the changes. Avoid saving too often or saving just to see what it looks like. Each page save will generate an entry in recent changes. Repeated trivial and unnecessary saves tend to clutter up that list and inconvenience users who make use of that list to watch for vandals or misinformed edits. Once you are happy with your changes, enter a brief summary of what changes you have made in the 'Summary:' text box and click the 'Save page' button.

The 'This is a minor edit' tick box should be used if small changes (for example, grammar corrections) have been made. The 'Watch this page' tick box is useful to keep an eye on changes to that article. These will show up in your 'My Watchlist' (found at the top right of the wiki when you are logged in) if any changes have been made.

External

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