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Pages about editing the wiki:

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[edit] Contacts

• Mailing list: bf-docboard (register first).
• IRC channel: #blenderwiki on irc.freenode.net (further details about using IRC).

[edit] Editing rights

[edit] Anonymous editing

You don’t need to ask for editing rights, we use a Captcha system to verify that editing has been made by humans and not bots, so you can just edit and fill the captcha with the right words after editing, and that’s it.

[edit] Wiki account

If you want to see your work credited to your nickname, then just create a mediawiki account.

[edit] Guidelines

• Please follow the guidelines on naming and on style.
• Learn these templates and try to use them as much as possible: this will help wiki maintainers to change wiki in a few steps instead of editing many pages.
• If you are localizing the wiki, see this internationalization page.

[edit] Contents

[edit] Wiki structure

• Put the appropriate content in the appropriate sections.
• Please refer to this wiki structure.

[edit] Official pages

Write only about contents directly and clearly related to Blender. Other contents only tangentially related should be hosted elsewhere:

• Content on using Blender is good.
• Broader research and technical information should go elsewhere.

If you’re unsure, use the contacts listed above.

[edit] User pages

• In your user page you’re quite free to add anything you want (should be related to blender though).
• Please avoid spamming with links to commercial sites unrelated to Blender.

[edit] Editing workflow

[edit] Minor Edits

If you noticed a typo, some minor error, anything you can fix in 1 minute or less, just do it!

[edit] Major Edits

[edit] Show your intentions in the Sandbox

• Instead of adding new pages right away, prepare them under Meta:Sandbox, then ask for a review in docboard or IRC.
• Same goes if you mean to change the wiki structure radically, prepare a mockup and a tree structure and contact docboard.
• In general, mail to docboard ML for big changes.

[edit] How to make big changes

• After you got a general consensus, put a warning template in the page(s) you plan to change to avoid someone will edit a page that is going to change.
• To commit the approved changes:
  • If a sandbox page is the substitute of an already existent page:
    • Copy the sandbox wikitext into the old page
    • Redirect the sandbox page to the true page
    • This way the visits counter in the real page won’t change, otherwise it will go to zero :/
  • If a sandbox page has to become a new “real” page:
    • Move it to the new destination for example from Meta:Sandbox/Manual/foo to Doc:Manual/foo.
    • This way we won’t have a duplicate in sandbox.
  • Remove any index from Meta:Sandbox.

[edit] Collaboration

[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.

[edit] How to sign

In order to put your signature on a page you can type a series 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] Mediawiki syntax

Refer to the official MediaWiki Docs.