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Other pages about editing the wiki:

Todos list | Revision Process

Style Guide | Notes for the translators

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To avoid problems between various contributors please stick to the following:

[edit] Minor Editings

You noticed a typo, some minor error, anything you can fix in 1 minute or less.

• Verify no one is doing Major editing on the page (See below for details);
• Do the edit;
• That's it!

[edit] Major Editings

You need to do extensive editings on a page.

• Verify no one is doing Major editings on the page;
• Declare your intention on the discussion page associated to the page. The discussion page is indeed the place to check to see if someone else intends to edit (but has not started yet);
• After a reasonable amount of time has passed (1 day) edit the page adding at the beginning:

  {{Working}}

This will show as

1. REDIRECT Template:Warning/Working

so that anyone will know someone is working on the page and will not edit and generate conflicts.

[edit] New Pages

It may happen that a chapter needs to be split in two or a new chapter must be added from scratch. Please join #blenderwiki on irc.freenode.net, or declare your intention on bf-docboard mailing list.

New pages must fit in the Great Scheme so their naming must be proper and within the scheme.

You should start a page in the sandbox and move it later! To create a new page, on the Sandbox page, create a link to the new page and save the Sandbox page. Then just click on the link and you will be asked to confirm creation of the page. You can now edit it. When you have finished the page and are ready to cut it into the main wiki, move it (just renaming the page from Sandbox/whatever to Manual/whatever), create a Manual or Tutorial link, and kill the Sandbox link.

[edit] How to sign

In order to put your Signature on a page you can type a serie of tilde. Depending on the number of '~' you will get different things:

--~~~

results in "--your username"

--~~~~

results in "--your username 12:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)"

--~~~~~

results in "--12:34, 1 February 2008 (UTC)"

While editing a page you can see a list of symbols just under the editing area: look at the very end of that list to find the sign symbols "(--~~~~(Sign))"

[edit] Messages to other wiki users

You can let a message to another wiki user writing a message in his Talk page.
In his userpage, click on the link "Discussion" and let the message.
When that user will login in this wiki he will see there's a new message in his talk page.