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Amy's Quick start

  1. How do I edit pages?
  2. How do I create a new page?
    1. Convoluted:
    2. More direct:
  3. Text formatting
  4. Other items
  5. Hyperlinks
  6. FAQ & Notes

How do I edit pages?

Click the "Edit text of this page" link at the bottom. You'll see a form. The text area contains the page contents. There are Save and Preview buttons at the bottom of the page.

How do I create a new page?

Two ways:

Convoluted:

  1. Add a link to the non-yet-existing page. If you want to include spaces in the page title, enclose the title in square brackets. Ex: [Where's Waldo].
  2. Click Save. After the page reloads, you will see that next to the text you added is a questionmark.
  3. Click the question mark that appears after the link, and edit that new page.

More direct:

  1. Edit the URL: append the not-yet-existing page title to the URL, after webgroup.pl Ex: http://mcc0.mcc.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/wiki/amyoung/amyoung.pl/Found_Waldo

Note that you must use underscores to indicate spaces, and some characters like question marks aren't allowed.

Text formatting

Other items

Hyperlinks

Plain hyperlinks are automatically turned into clickable hyperlinks, no <a> tag needed. If you want to supply the linked text, enclose it all in square brackets. Ex: [http://www.oddmuse.org OddMuse Home Page] gives: OddMuse Home Page. There's way more to linking than just this, so look at the Odd Muse Link Patterns [1].

FAQ &amp; Notes

Q: Can I have calendars, sidebars, CSS, embedded HTML, forms, et al?
A: Yes. There are tons of fun features.

Q: Aren't you worried about someone deleting everything?
A: No. Here's why.

Q: Can I restrict editing?
A: Yes, via passwords in the config file.