Help:Starting a new page
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Ways to start a new page
- Start a page from an existing link
- Start a page by editing the URL directly
- Start a page from your user page
Starting a page from an existing link
To start a new page, you can start from a link to the title of the new page. As you're reading through Wikipedia articles, you'll see clickable links to pages that haven't been written yet (like this: Sample article title note this is not an actual functioning link). Links to unwritten pages appear in red (if you are logged in you can change this to a small question mark using the preferences). Click on the link, and you'll arrive at a page that says:
You've followed a link to a page that doesn't exist yet. To create the page, start typing in the box below:
Just start typing your article in the edit-box. When you're finished, click the "show preview" button to check what the page will look like first and to check that you haven't made any errors. Then click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.
Creating links to other pages
While you are editing an existing article, if a word or phrase you are typing strikes you as if it ought to linked to an article of its own, just put it in double square brackets, [[like this]] (this is known as "wikifying" the text). When you save the current article, that word will either magically link to an article if one exists, or it will become one of those red links mentioned above which allow you to create the article. This is a great way to build new articles.
Editing a URL
Another way to start a new page is to enter something like the following into your browser as a page address:
http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/Sample_article_title
Replacing "Sample_article_title" with whatever you want the article to be called. For example, to create an article about Nubbins, type:
http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/Nubbins
This will bring up a message that informs you that there is currently no text in the article yet. So, click on the "Edit this page" link at the top of that page, and presto! you are now editing your brand new article. Your careful attention to accuracy and neutrality will be greatly appreciated, of course.
However, creating an article with this method often makes what we call here an orphan -- no other articles link to this new page. Orphans are bad unfortunate -- they should be linked to (i.e. by creating a link to it in another article) and immediately categorized.
Start a page from your user page
Another way is to use your user page...
Some additional tips on page creation
- Add your article to an appropriate category. Does it belong to the area of Animation, Rendering, etc. Note that you can add the link to several categories pages if you feel the conent belongs to several of them.
- Your article should specify to which version of XSI it relates. State the version number below the title.
