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==Howto Information==
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{{PD Help Page}}
If you solve a problem, why not contribute your solution to this website as an article that others can easily find?  Adding or editing articles is very easy.
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==Reading==
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* [[Help:Navigation|Navigation]]
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* [[Help:Searching|Searching]]
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* [[Help:Tracking changes|Tracking changes]]
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* [[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]]
  
== Editing from OpenOffice ==
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==Editing==
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher Sun has a new extension to [[OpenOffice]] that allows you to write wiki articles from right in your word processor.
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* [[Help:Editing pages|Editing pages]]
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* [[Help:Starting a new page|Starting a new page]]
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* [[Help:Formatting|Formatting]]
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* [[Help:Links|Links]]
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* [[Help:User page|User pages]]
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* [[Help:Talk pages|Talk pages]]
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* [[Help:Signatures|Signatures]]
  
== Help using this website: See the main wikipedia ==
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===Advanced editing===
There is a volume of 'help' information available at the main wikipedia site, so that effort is not reproduced here.
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* [[Help:Images|Images]]
See the [[wikipedia:help:Content|Help Table of Contents]]
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* [[Help:Tables|Tables]]
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* [[Help:Categories|Categories]]
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* [[Help:Subpages|Subpages]]
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* [[Help:Managing files|Managing files]]
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* [[Help:Moving a page|Moving (renaming) a page]]
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* [[Help:Redirects|Redirects]]
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* [[Help:Deleting a page|Deleting a page]]
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* [[Help:Protected pages|Protected pages]]
  
Please see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_i18n documentation on customizing the interface]
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* [[Help:Templates|Templates]]
and the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.
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* [[Help:Variables|Variables]]
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* [[Help:Namespaces|Namespaces]]
  
=== Linked Images ===
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* [[Help:Special pages|Special pages]]
By default, this system is configured to show an image and link to it's description page.  Sometimes, you want to use an image to link to a page of your choice.  There are [[mw:Help:Linked_images| many ways to make mediawiki link images]], ( and [[mw:Wikipedia:10 things you did not know about images on Wikipedia]]) but the most convenient that we settled on here is to use the [[mw:Extension:Icon|Icon extension]]
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* [[Help:External searches|External searches]]
The syntax (described at [[Icons]]) is
 
<pre>
 
{{#icon: Info.png|Info|24|floatright|Special:Help}}
 
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To get your image to float left or right, wrap the
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===Personal customization===
<nowiki>{{#icon}}</nowiki> in a div with the appropriate class like so:
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* [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]]
<nowiki><div class="floatright">{{#icon}}</div></nowiki> Although I modified the Icon extension to be able to specify a class in the icon tag itself, the extension now reveals some weaknesses that make me want to change to the LinkedImage extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkedImage
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* [[Help:Skins|Skins]]
  
Also,
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==Wiki administration==
  
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* [[Help:Sysops and permissions|Sysops and permissions]]
  
<nowiki>[[Media:foo.pdf]]</nowiki> would produce a link to a pdf document, so
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The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.
  
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* [[Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protecting and unprotecting pages]]
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* [[Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting|Sysop deleting and undeleting]]
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* [[Help:Patrolled edits|Patrolled edits]]
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* [[Help:Blocking users|Blocking users]]
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* [[Help:Range blocks|Range IP blocks]]
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* [[Help:Assigning permissions|Assigning permissions]]
  
<nowiki>[[Media:Ejbdesignpatterns.pdf]]</nowiki> produces a link to http://freephile.com/wiki/images/6/6d/Ejbdesignpatterns.pdf
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{{Languages|Help:Contents}}
 
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See also
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* [[mw:Help:Images]]
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[[Category:Imported help]]
  
 
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