Help:Editing primer: Difference between revisions

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This guide is aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with editing ~~with~~ MediaWiki (if they even know what that is), but are familiar with traditional editing systems like ~~Wordpress~~, any sort of word document, and so on. This should hopefully knock out a lot of quick vital differences between the 2 systems to allow an easier learning curve.

This guide is aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with editing on MediaWiki sites (if they even know what that means), but are familiar with traditional editing systems like WordPress, any sort of word document, and so on. This should hopefully knock out a lot of quick vital differences between the 2 systems to allow an easier learning curve.

For information on how the markdown of MediaWiki pages work, see [[mw:Help:Formatting|Help:Formatting]] from the MediaWiki website.

== Terminology ==

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This risk is mitigated by [[mw:Help:Redirects|redirects]], but that's entering a "not-getting started guide" level of detail.

== Page protection ==

You may notice that certain pages on this website cannot be edited. Instead of seeing <code>Edit</code> or <code>Edit source</code>, you may see <code>View source</code>. An example would be [[:File:EDCLogo.png]]. This means a page has been protected by a site administrator from editing. Very few pages are given this treatment, since editing is already by it's nature selective given user accounts must be requested before being created, but it does happen.

If you find such a page protected and need it to have some kind of edit done, notify a [[Special:ListUsers/sysop|site administrator]].

== Footnotes ==

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-This guide is aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with editing with MediaWiki (if they even know what that is), but are familiar with traditional editing systems like Wordpress, any sort of word document, and so on. This should hopefully knock out a lot of quick vital differences between the 2 systems to allow an easier learning curve.
+This guide is aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with editing on MediaWiki sites (if they even know what that means), but are familiar with traditional editing systems like WordPress, any sort of word document, and so on. This should hopefully knock out a lot of quick vital differences between the 2 systems to allow an easier learning curve.
+For information on how the markdown of MediaWiki pages work, see [[mw:Help:Formatting|Help:Formatting]] from the MediaWiki website.
 == Terminology ==
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 This risk is mitigated by [[mw:Help:Redirects|redirects]], but that's entering a "not-getting started guide" level of detail.
+== Page protection ==
+You may notice that certain pages on this website cannot be edited. Instead of seeing <code>Edit</code> or <code>Edit source</code>, you may see <code>View source</code>. An example would be [[:File:EDCLogo.png]]. This means a page has been protected by a site administrator from editing. Very few pages are given this treatment, since editing is already by it's nature selective given user accounts must be requested before being created, but it does happen.
+If you find such a page protected and need it to have some kind of edit done, notify a [[Special:ListUsers/sysop|site administrator]].
 == Footnotes ==