Updating the wiki
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Ok, so you've not updated a wiki before - don't worry, it's dead straightforward!
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First Steps
The first thing to do is make sure you are logged in. If you are, the top of the page will show your username - if not, you'll see "Create an account or login".
If you don't have an account to log into the wiki, please see the section under "Wiki Stuff" on the Main Page for instructions on how to get one. NB: Clicking "Create an account or login" WILL NOT let you create an account
Putting content into an existing page
The easiest thing to do with the wiki is edit an existing page. Once you are logged in, each page will have an "edit" tab at the top. Click the tab and the editor will appear. Edit the plain text in the editor then you can either preview or save the text at the bottom of the page. You should also put a brief description of the change in the box labelled "Summary". Easy!
Putting content into a new page
Putting new content on a page is easy too. To create the new page, simply edit the URL in your browser to be the new page. All the content on the HudLUG server is under http://www.hudlug.org.uk/wiki/ - so add your page name at the end of that URL. Make sure you replace spaces with an underscore. So the URL for the main page is http://www.hudlug.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page.
Once you've gone to that URL, the editor will be available for you to create a new page the same way you edit an existing one.
Linking to other pages
One of the most useful things about a wiki is the way it links to other pages. The two most simple links in the wiki are those that point inside the wiki and those that point outside.
Inside links
To create links to other pages in the wiki, put two sets of square brackets around the name of the page you want to link to.
To link to the meetings page, you put;
[[meetings]]
Outside Links
To create links to pages outside the wiki, put one set of square brackets around the URL followed by the text you want to appear as the link.
To link to Slashdot, you put;
[http://slashdot.org Slashdot]
"Aliasing" links
Sometimes you may want to "alias" an inside link. This means that whilst you may want to link to a page called "meetings", you want the link that appears on the page to say "meeting".
You can do this using the pipe symbol ("|").
To alias the meetings page as meeting, you put;
[[meetings|meeting]]
