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Setting User Preferences

Note the "preferences" link on the very top line of text on any page, after your "my talk" link. Click into that where you can change your user settings. You should verify that all the namespaces are checked under the "search" tab on your preferences page.

Creating new pages

Create new pages simply by entering the new title for the page into the search box and press the Go button. If a page by that title does not exist, the system will display a page indicating that no such page exists and it will provide a link to enter the editor to create content for the new page.

Alternatively, create a link to a new page from an existing page, using the double bracket notation [[Your_New_Page Title Here]], and then click on that link. The editor for the new page will be entered directly where you can begin adding the new contents.

Remember to save your page contents after a preview, otherwise you will lose your edits.

CASE SENSITIVITY The wiki software will enforce case sensitivity on page names after the first letter. The first letter of a page name is case-insensitive and will appear as upper case. Letters following the first are case sensitive and will appear as entered. Therefore, it becomes way too easy to create pages with the exact same name, differing only in case. Beware of this situation.

Creating URL Links from your pages

For internal links to pages within this Wiki: In your page text, enclose the title of the page you want to link to in double square brackets: [[Main Page]] which appears as Main Page.

For external links, place the http:// URL in your page with the title following, highlight the whole thing, and then press the fourth button from the left at the top of the editor bar, looks like a little world image. It adds single [square brackets] around your URL which causes it to be an external reference.

Organizing Content

The primary method of organizing content in this wiki is to place your page into one or more catagories. Thus, your page becomes part of a collection of pages all related to the same category. To add your page to a category, place a category tag at the end of your page contents. The category tag looks like:

[[Category:<category type here>]]

See also: Special:Categories for a list of existing categories. The name to enter as <category type here> is exactly as the names appear in the listing.

New categories are created simply by creating a reference to them. They should be edited to have a one line description and placed into an appropriate higher level category.

Pages can be in more than one category, but you should avoid placing a page in both a category and a subcategory. See also: [Wikipedia categorization]

Entering Math

To display math equations, you can use TeX formatting:

<math> \sqrt{2}\approx 1.4 </math>

See also: Math Markup

Restricted Pages

We do not have restricted pages here for specific work groups. Everything created here is open content readable by all viewers. And due to the history mechanism behind every page, no content can be effectively deleted entirely.

External Help links:

1. 1. MediaWiki: Editing Wiki Pages
   2. MediaWiki: General Help Page
   3. MediaWiki: FAQ
   4. Placing pages into catagories
   5. Image link syntax
   6. Math TeX markup syntax