EvaWiki:The Very Basics

Since many will not have to patience to read through everything before diving in (tsk, tsk!), here are some things you absolutely must know:

• Check the forum regularly — and participate in the discussions. This cannot be emphasized enough!

• Discussion Pages

• Always sign your name. You do this by entering --~~~~.
• If you are writing a response, indent it by using one or more colons.
  

:If it's the first response, it might look like this. (Though the colon wouldn't ordinarily be visible.)

::More colons will provide a deeper indentation. Try it out later.

• If you are starting a new topic, create a new heading for it. Otherwise, things become a jumbled and incoherent mess that someone else has to sort out. (Learn about Headings in MediaWiki Boot Camp.)

• Review the Standards & Conventions before working on articles. This will save everybody a lot of unnecessary hassle.

• MediaWiki doesn't recognize ordinary line breaks: You can't skip a single line by hitting Enter. This must be done with code. Use <br /> (alternatively <br>, but the other one seems to be preferred for some reason).

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