TNGwiki New Page

Methods of creating a new article

There are a few ways you can create a new page/article

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While in an article click on the edit tab Type in the title you want for your new article enclose it it in "[[ ]]" double brackets Or highlight the text with your mouse and click on the internal link icon http://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/images/7/7e/20080724222240internalLink.jpg ... it then supplies the double bracket on either side of your highlighted text

Search box method

• In the search dialog box on the left hand side of the MediaWiki sidebar...

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Type in the article title in the search field "Your New Article"Or whatever the article name will be

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When the search does not result in an article with that title... ... you are given the opportunity to "create this page" Note: this is also a good method for discovering if someone else has a similar article title

Inserting an article link

• You can add a link to any existing page by entering

[[ new page name]] double bracket in the page

• Note: The article name could be just about anything ... and yet the link can display any text you wish

For Example

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On the main page there is a link "For Discussion and comments of Primary Categories; Divisions and Purposes" The actual article is named "20080716015046" By inserting the "pipe" after the article title you can have any text displayed for the link

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Category link rename

• Select an existing category in the left nav area, for example

TNG modifications

• Select an existing page, such as for example

Living Flag Mod

Change the URL in the URL address to the page you want to create, for example

http://tng.lythgoes.net/wiki/index.php?title=Short_Title_Mod

and then hit Enter

That will return a screen that says "There is currently no text in this page....and on the right of the message there is a link for edit this page.

If you click that link you then get an input page where you can paste the content of your new page.

"nowiki" verses "pre"

Note that code sections should be preceded by a '<pre>' and followed by an '</ pre >' 
(note blanks added for display purposes) so the lines do not get formatted.

The < nowiki > </ nowiki > is supposed to accomplish the same thing, but I have never been able 
to get that to work.

• Both methods seem to work ...and the "pre" method is fewer keystrokes!

Note

The "nowiki" should work ... but you can not have spaces as the arrows indicate

Copying another articles format

You can also edit the Living Flag Mod for example and select all the text and copy it, and then paste it in your new page and then replace the pertinent portions.

Assigning a category

When you are satisfied with the display of your page, you can add the category at the end of the page, for example

[[Category:TNGmods]] for TNG Modifications
[[Category:TNGadminguide]] for the TNG Administration Guide
[[Category:TNGuserguide]] for the TNG User Guide

• It may not always be necessary to assign an article to a category
• You can also assign an article to multiple categories

Conclusion

Hope that helps you and others who would like to document their mods or other procedures to the TNG Wiki.

Let me know if anything else is not clear. For example if you select the text you want to bold and then click the B in the toolbar on the edit page, it will put the Wiki code to bold that text. and also appears to work.