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Contents 1 Editing a page 2 Creating a page 3 Creating a subpage 4 Editing syntax 5 Level 1 5.1 Level 2 5.1.1 Level 3 5.1.1.1 Level 4 5.1.1.1.1 Level 5 5.1.1.1.1.1 Level 6 5.2 Moving a page 5.3 Before saving changes 5.4 Adding a picture to the Wiki 5.5 Adding a PDF or another type of file that is not a picture 5.6 The Navigation box on the left 5.7 See also

Editing a page

Once you log in, you can edit any page on the Wiki by clicking the "edit" tab at the top. If you are not sure about a change, or if you want to talk about the contents, you can click the "discussion" tab and write a comment instead.

Creating a page

A red link such as this one (Non-existent page) indicates that a page does not exist yet. Clicking on a red link will bring you to a page where the first version of that page can be written and then saved.

Another option to create a new page is to type the full name of the page you wish to create into the Search box. That will bring you to a page that says There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page. with links to the search page, or the edit page where you can then write and save the page.

Another way to create a new page is to navigate to the URL directly. For example, typing out http://www.16guidelines.org/wiki/index.php/Non-existent_page onto the browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will achieve the same effect as clicking on the red link above.

Creating a subpage

To create a subpage of another page, use any of the 3 options above to create the page with the following naming: Original page name/Subpage name using the forward slash (/) to indicate the separation between the original page, and the subpage.

Editing syntax

Moving a page

You can rename a page by moving it to another more appropriate name. The "Move" link at the top of the page allows you to move it. You must be logged in to be able to see the "Move" link. You cannot move a page to a name that already exists.

After successfully moving a page, the old name will contain a redirect to the new name, allowing all the old links to continue to work properly. It is not necessary to purposely change all existing links to the old name to the new name, unless the old name was misleading.

Before saving changes

Once you've edited in your changes, before actually saving them, make use of the "Show preview" button to preview how your changes would look like after you saved. Avoid saving too often or saving just to see what it looks like. Each page save will generate an entry in recent changes. Repeated trivial and unnecessary saves tend to clutter up that list and inconvenience users who make use of that list to watch for vandals or misinformed edits.

Adding a picture to the Wiki

1. Create a link (a place holder) on your Wiki page for the image you wish to display
   1. A link to an image looks like this [ [ Image:peter_kindness.jpg ] ] that is - two [ (left square bracket) followed by the word Image and a colon, then a file name, and two ] (right square bracket)
   2. There is no space between the two ['s or between the [ and the Image tag nor after the name. Note that there is a : (colon) after Image
   3. The name of the file should be your username, an underscore, a short descriptive name, a dot, and the file type jpg or png for images. This is not necessarily the same name that the image file has on your own computer. Do not use spaces in the file name.
2. After you have created the link, finish editing the Wiki page as usual and save it.
3. Next you click the image link on your new page, which will take you to -
4. A message that says the image does not exist yet, but offer you to go to the -
5. Upload page, where you do the actual upload of the image (which means selecting it on your computer) and fill in some extra information about it. Please write a good description of the image in the text box, since this will enable users of the Wiki to find the image when they use the search function.
6. Please remember to make your username a part of the file name. The reason for this is that all images on the Wiki are placed in one folder, and therefore they must have distinct file names.

Adding a PDF or another type of file that is not a picture

1. Create a link on your Wiki page as before
   1. But this time the name is [ [ Media:sarah_meditation.pdf ] ]
   2. As before, there are no spaces in the link, this is just to make it clear here.
2. Upload the file by clicking the link and filling out the form.

If you suddenly download a picture or a document or something else when you were expecting to upload your own file, it just means that the name you chose was already used by somebody else. See the comment about the file name.

The Navigation box on the left

On the left side there is a toolbox with some useful links:

• Main page is the same as clicking the logo, it takes you to the starting page of the Wiki.
• Community portal is the home page for the group behind 16 Guidelines.
• Current events Here you can advertise meetings and seminars that other readers might want to hear about. Please remove them again after the date is passed.
• Recent changes When you visit this Wiki often you might want to see what has changed over the last week.
• Random page Takes you to some page you may not have seen before. Different one each time!
• Help How to use the Wiki. This page.
• Donations For sponsors, if you are interested in helping the 16 Guidelines group.

See also

• Use a sandbox for experimentation with editing
• Image help on MetaWiki
• Table help on MetaWiki
• Template help on MetaWiki
• Cheatsheet for Editing Pages on Wikipedia
• Monobook editing shortcuts on Wikipedia
• External Editors on MediaWiki for an advanced editing technique