User:Jonathan Lane Studeman/Sandbox2


 * The wiki is a collection of Web pages stored in a database.


 * Within the database, different types of pages are in different "namespaces."


 * The main namespace is where most pages reside.

Find a page
The Search box, links and categories are how you find pages.


 * 1) Type a subject into the Search box and hit Enter.
 * 2) If the page you want appears, read it and edit it.
 * 3) If not, you should see a list of possibly related pages. Most will contain links to other pages, including "category" links at the very bottom. Try browsing.
 * 4) If that doesn't work, try browsing from the main categories of pages.
 * 5) If you can't find the page you want, create it!

Create a page
Following a red link is how you create a new page.


 * 1) Be sure that you need a new page. Do a search. Maybe there's a page about this already.
 * 2) If there's a page already, read it and edit it.
 * 3) If not, find a related page. (Your own User page is obviously related to everything you do. Use that if you can't find something better.)
 * 4) On a related page, create a link to your new page. The link will be red because the page does not already exist.
 * 5) Follow the red link. Following a red link is how you create a new page.

Edit a page
''The "Edit" link at the top of a page is for editing the entire page. The ones to the right of section headings are for editing a particular section.''


 * 1) Click an "Edit" link
 * 2) Type some text into the editing window.
 * 3) Never indent a paragraph, or anything else, using empty spaces or tabs. Always fill the first space on a line with something (except for blank lines).
 * 4) Put a blank line between paragraphs.
 * 5) Click "Show preview" if you want to see what your edits look like before saving.
 * 6) Click "Save page" when you are satisfied.

Create a wiki link
''Square brackets surrounding text are how you create a link. There are two kinds of links, wiki links and external links.''

Create an external link
''Square brackets surrounding text are how you create a link. There are two kinds of links, wiki links and external links.''

Format your text
Special characters are inserted to produce formatting.


 * : Colon(s) in the first space(s) on a line will indent a line or paragraph.
 * This is indented text.
 * 1) * Asterisk(s) in the first space(s) will create a bullet.
 * 2) * This is bulleted text.
 * 3) # Pound sign(s) will create a numbered list
 * 4) This is one item in a numbered list
 * 5) Apostrophes (2, 3, or 5) surrounding text will create emphasis.
 * This shows italicized text (2 apostrophes: ).
 * This shows bolded text (3 apostrophes: ).
 * This shows italicized, bolded text (5 apostrophes: ).

Categorize your pages
''All pages should be categorized. Any page can be in any number of different categories.''


 * 1) Insert a wiki link to a page in the "category" namespace. For example:
 * 2) Save the page. A category link will not show up in the text. It will display at the bottom of the page, along with all other category links.

Insert images
Images have pages in the "Image" namespace.


 * 1) Insert a wiki link to a page in the "Image" namespace. For example:
 * 2) Use pipe characters after the page name to separate specifications such as width, alignment and description. For example,