PESWiki:Editing FAQ
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This FAQ answers the most common questions about editing PESWiki. For full help on editing articles, see the Help page, and these help articles:
- How to edit a page.
- How to start a new page.
- How to use talk pages, which are used to discuss how to improve articles.
- How to rename (move) a page.
- How to use redirect pages.
- How to create page(s) for topics with several different definitions.
- How to delete pages
- How to import articles
- How to break up a page
- How to use tables
See also: PESWiki:Browser notes.
Q. How do I edit a page?
- It's quite easy. Simply click the "Edit this page" tab located at the top of the page or the other edit link across from headings on the right hand side of the page, and type away. For a brief introduction, see PESWiki:Quick guide. See "Editing PESWiki" to learn about making links, using bold and italics, linking to images, and many other things...
Q. How do I make links?
- A link is just the name of the page surrounded by double square brackets. It's also possible to make the link display text that is different from that of the link itself:
- [[page name]]
- [[page name]]s -- suffix text will display as part of the link
- [[page name|display name]] -- the piped link: hide the page name and display something else (but use this sparingly, and never "click here"!)
- [[page name (disambiguation)|]] -- the "pipe trick": the part in parentheses will not be displayed.
You don't need to put underscores ("_"), to act as space separators like you see in links. Spaces will work fine.
Q. How do I rename a page?
Registered users with a little bit of editing history under their belt can move a page; this moves the page content and edit history to a new title, and creates a redirecting page at the old title. This method is better than just copying and pasting the content by hand, as it preserves the article's history, as required by our license. Use the "Move" link. Once you have moved a page, please click the "What links here" and fix the links to the old page (which will be labelled as a redirect in the "What links here" list).
Images and other media files cannot be renamed. You may save a copy of the file to your computer, rename it there, and then upload it with the new name. Fix any links to the old file to point to the new one, then note the old file at "image deletion" with a link to the image's description page (filling in the new image name).
