User:Sirdog/Quick editing guide: Difference between revisions

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This guide is aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with editing on MediaWiki sites but ''are'' familiar with traditional editing systems like WordPress, any sort of word document, and so on.

This guide is aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with editing on MediaWiki sites but ''are'' familiar with traditional editing systems like WordPress, any sort of word document, and so on. This guide will hit on the items that are most likely to cause confusion. Hopefully, anyway.

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

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Non-regular editors of the war game wiki are encouraged to seek guidance from a wiki administrator or seasoned contributor before moving pages.

== Warning on edit publication ==

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Every edit, the content of the edit, who made the edit, and when the edit was made is publicly logged. Every version of a page after every edit is similarly logged. This makes this website incredibly resilient to breakage, but also means that it's difficult to truly delete information. Simply editing the information out and clicking "Save changes" is insufficient. Anyone with an internet connection can check the page's history and still find the information.

If an edit is published to a page with information that the user does not want to be publicly accessible, then the information should still be edited out, but then a wiki administrator must be notified so they can delete the edit from the public archives. '''This notification should be done privately to avoid the [[wikipedia:Streisand effect|Streisand effect]]'''. For details on how they do this, check out [[mediawikiwiki:Help:RevisionDelete|Help:RevisionDelete]].

== Categories ==

== Footnotes ==

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-This guide is aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with editing on MediaWiki sites but ''are'' familiar with traditional editing systems like WordPress, any sort of word document, and so on.
+This guide is aimed at people who are completely unfamiliar with editing on MediaWiki sites but ''are'' familiar with traditional editing systems like WordPress, any sort of word document, and so on. This guide will hit on the items that are most likely to cause confusion. Hopefully, anyway.
 For information on how the markdown of MediaWiki pages work, see [[mw:Help:Formatting|Help:Formatting]].
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 Non-regular editors of the war game wiki are encouraged to seek guidance from a wiki administrator or seasoned contributor before moving pages.
+== Warning on edit publication ==
+{{Ambox|type=speedy|image=|text=This section is '''very''' important.}}
+Every edit, the content of the edit, who made the edit, and when the edit was made is publicly logged. Every version of a page after every edit is similarly logged. This makes this website incredibly resilient to breakage, but also means that it's difficult to truly delete information. Simply editing the information out and clicking "Save changes" is insufficient. Anyone with an internet connection can check the page's history and still find the information.
+If an edit is published to a page with information that the user does not want to be publicly accessible, then the information should still be edited out, but then a wiki administrator must be notified so they can delete the edit from the public archives. '''This notification should be done privately to avoid the [[wikipedia:Streisand effect|Streisand effect]]'''. For details on how they do this, check out [[mediawikiwiki:Help:RevisionDelete|Help:RevisionDelete]].
+== Categories ==
+== Footnotes ==
+{{Reflist}}