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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 1:42:56 pm by CraigBox Revert
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:02:42 pm by CraigBox Revert
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-To add a new page to Wiki, all you have to do is come up with a meaningful title, capitalize all the words and StringThemTogetherLikeThis. Wiki automagically recognizes it as a hyperlink. Alternatively, you can put anything into [square brackets]
+Before adding a new page to the Wiki, please do a search and see if there's already an appropriate page you can improve or add to
  
-Then you can go ahead and ClickTheQuestionMark at the end of your new hyperlink, and the Wiki will give you a window for making the new page. 
+To add a new page to Wiki, all you have to do is come up with a meaningful title, capitalize all the words and StringThemTogetherLikeThis. Wiki automagically recognizes it as a hyperlink. Alternatively, you can put any a title into [square brackets]. (That is an example - please do NOT create wiki words with spaces in them!) Then you can go ahead and ClickTheQuestionMark at the end of your new hyperlink, and the Wiki will give you a window for making the new page. Make sure that the page you created is linked to from some other page - otherwise it becomes an 'orphan' and is almost impossible to find!  
  
 If you wish to add documents with complex markup to the Wiki, you might be better off providing a URL to it than trying to add the text of the document here, like so: 
  
 PhpWiki project homepage: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/ 
  
 The Wiki does not support HTML tags (see TextFormattingRules). <tags>They will just render like text.</tags> Wiki is meant to be as simple as possible to encourage use. 
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+See our WikiFaq.  
  
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