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Introl,
Hi and welcome. I noticed the page you initiated, and thought you might like to take a look some tips for newbies since it seemed your page does not entirely conform to the type of content which tinWiki is about. If your page is about a topic that tinWiki should have information about, please rewrite and improve the article, since it is very unclear and unspecific right now. If the page does not belong in tinWiki (I, at least, wasn't able so far to make sense of what you're really talking about in the article text there), it will be deleted.
Please take a look at these tips for newbies (which you can also see here):
| Hello, newbie.
Welcome. :-) You are interested in contributing to tinWiki, but don't quite know how it's done. Remember that you can't ruin anything in tinWiki, since it's really easy to revert an article or page to an earlier version of that article or page. You see, all pages have their own version history list, where everything done in a page is kept, and from where all previous edits can be brought back very easily. Anyway, here are a few initial pointers which should let you get started doing some quite presentable tinWiki article writing:
- tinWiki is a website. More specifically it's an online encyclopedia wiki.
- tinWiki isn't a forum (or blog host), so you don't write "posts" or "threads" here. In tinWiki you write articles—encyclopedic articles.
- tinWiki is not a place for publishing articles, but a place for collaborative writing of articles.
- First versions of articles don't have to be "perfect" (or even close...)
- You write articles, you don't paste articles you find on the web.
- Feel free to make a first version of an article—you can always come back later to improve it, or someone else will improve it.
- Write article text by using original phrasing of your own (except when quoting people, naturally).
- Name your sources (write a list at the bottom of the article).
- tinWiki is an encyclopedia. You spell out words, so it's "do not", not "don't". (P.S. This page here is a Help page, and an unusual one at that, not an encyclopedic article.)
- Write from a neutral point of view, not from a first-person point of view. Don't say "I", and don't say "you". Instead, rewrite to a neutral-point-of-view language. (Example: Instead of saying "I think you'll agree that tinWiki is a great website" say "tinWiki is considered by some people to be a great website".)
- Do not sign articles. It's not your personal article. Article text you write and then publish in tinWiki is published under this license, and can—and will—be edited by readers interested in improving and contributing to the article.
- The first sentence of the article should state immediately what the topic is. Example from article tinWiki: "tinWiki is a collaborative encyclopedia." Please let articles begin with a sentence of that type.
- How to start a new page if none exists already for the topic you are writing about: type the title into the "search" box in the sidebar and press the Enter key on your keyboard. Next, click on the red link that comes up, type in some article text, and click Save. :-)
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Read all that twice and you know the tinWiki editing basics. Wiki codes and formatting is not very important, it can easily be fixed later, but here is one: formatted headers are made by keeping the header on its own line and putting two equal signs on each side of the header, like this:
== Some header or other ==
If you need any more tips and hints, feel free to browse the help pages and manuals, and contact other tinWiki users through the message writing features (useful links are in the sidebar on the left hand side of all tinWiki pages).
Again: Welcome!
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Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. --Optimist 08:44, 19 May 2008 (CDT)
