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<div class="tf-lead">This page covers the basics of editing a page: the simple text codes you type to make links, headings, lists, and more. Once you have these, see the [[TenthFleet:Contributor's guide|Contributor's guide]] for how to build specific kinds of articles.</div> | <div class="tf-lead">This page covers the basics of editing a page: the simple text codes you type to make links, headings, lists, and more. Once you have these, see the [[TenthFleet:Contributor's guide|Contributor's guide]] for how to build specific kinds of articles.</div> | ||
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===Links=== | ===Links=== | ||
From [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links Wikimedia]: | |||
:: There are five types<nowiki>*</nowiki> of hypertext links in MediaWiki: | |||
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# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Internal_links Internal links] to other pages in the same wiki (commonly called "wikilinks") | |||
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#External_links External links] to pages at other websites | |||
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#External_links_to_internal_pages External links] to internal pages in the same wiki | |||
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Interwiki_links Interwiki links] to other websites using special prefixes registered in advance | |||
# [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Interlanguage_links Interlanguage links] to other wikis registered as different language versions of the current wiki | |||
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:: <nowiki>*</nowiki> list does not include [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Categories category links] and [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Images file links], which are used to place pages into categories and display images or other media files, respectively. | |||
For the purposes of this wiki, these few examples should get your through most of your editing: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! You type !! What it does | ! You type !! What it does | ||
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<div class="tf-note"><span class="tf-lbl">Note</span><br>A '''red link''' means the page does not exist yet. That is not a mistake; it is an invitation to create it. A '''blue link''' means the page is already there.</div> | <div class="tf-note"><span class="tf-lbl">Note</span><br>A '''red link''' means the page does not exist yet. That is not a mistake; it is an invitation to create it. A '''blue link''' means the page is already there.</div> | ||
For more complex linking, and some nity-gritty technical details, MediaWiki's detailed lists of the various linking methods provide everything you'll need beyond the information in the table above. | |||
===Headings and sections=== | ===Headings and sections=== | ||