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Contents 1 Navigating the site 2 Editing Help 2.1 Creating Pages and Categories 2.2 Formatting Text 2.3 Indenting Text 2.4 Creating Sections in a Page 2.5 Making Lists 2.6 Making Links 2.6.1 Links to a section of the page you're viewing 2.6.2 Links to other No LJ Ads Wiki pages 2.6.3 Links to LiveJournal and Vox 2.6.4 Links to other external pages 2.7 Categorizing 2.8 Creating Redirects 2.9 Uploading Images 2.10 Inserting Images 2.11 Signing Comments on Talk Pages 2.12 Help Resources

[edit] Navigating the site

You can search for one or several words in the Search Box.

You can see a list of all pages alphabetically or by popularity.

You can also see a lit of all categories alphabetically or by size.

[edit] Editing Help

[edit] Creating Pages and Categories

To create a page, simply type its name in the Search box. This will link you to a page saying it doesn't exist. There, you'll see the following sentence: "You can create this page." Click on it. Enter text in the box.

To create a category, simply insert a link to this category in a page. Like this: [[Category:category name]]. If this category doesn't already exist, it will be created automatically.

To create a subcategory:

• first create the subcategory by linking your page to it: [[Category:subcategory name]]
• then go the new subcategory page: http://wiki.noljads.com/Category:subcategory name
• click on edit and add a link to the category you want it to be a part of: [[Category:category name]]

[edit] Formatting Text

italicize text by putting 2 apostrophes on each side: ''italicized text''

bold text by putting 3 apostrophes on each side: '''bold text'''

bold and italicize text by putting 5 apostrophes on each side: '''''bold and italicized text'''''

<nowiki> text without wikification</nowiki> will not wikified the text put between the two tags.

Click on 'Enter' twice to start a new line.

[edit] Indenting Text

: will create an indent. Add a : sign to increase the indentation. For example:

: First level of indentation

:: Second level of indentation

::: Third level of indentation

:: Second level of indentation again

This is particularly useful in Discussion pages.

[edit] Creating Sections in a Page

= Section = will create a section.

== Subsection == will create a subsection.

=== Sub-subsection === will create a sub-subsection.

Etc, etc.

[edit] Making Lists

* will create a list with dots. Add a * sign for each sublevel. For example:

• * Main level
  • ** Sublevel
    • *** Sub-sublevel
  • ** Sublevel again

# will create a numbered list. Add a # sign for each sublevel. For example:

1. # Main level
   1. ## Sublevel
      1. ### Sub-sublevel
   2. ## Sublevel again

[edit] Making Links

[edit] Links to a section of the page you're viewing

[[#section|section name]] is an internal link to the section of the page you're editing.

[edit] Links to other No LJ Ads Wiki pages

[[Special:Allpages]] is an internal link to the page called Special:Allpages. If this page doesn't exist, it will link to a page saying so.

N.B. You can also use lowercase for the first letter of the link. For example: [[moderators]] and [[Moderators]] will link to the same page. It's useful when you have a link which is in the middle of a sentence and therefore don't want to have the first letter capitalized.

[[:Category:LiveJournal Clones|LiveJournal Clones]] is an internal link to the category called LiveJournal Clones.

[[Help:Contents#Making Links]] is an internal link to the Help:Contents#Making Links of the page called Help:Contents.

[edit] Links to LiveJournal and Vox

<ljuser>exampleusername</ljuser> will make exampleusername

<ljcomm>communityname</ljcomm> will make communityname

<ljspon>sponsored_comm</ljspon> will make sponsored_comm

<ljsyn>syndicated_feed</ljsyn> will make syndicated_feed

<openid>bradfitz.com</openid> will make bradfitz.com

<vox>voxuser</vox> will make voxuser

<ljlink href="http://community.livejournal.com/communityname/21475.html">Link Text</ljlink> will make Link Text (communityname)

<voxlink href="http://voxuser.vox.com/profile/">Link Text</voxlink> will make Link Text (voxuser)

[edit] Links to other external pages

[http://www.google.com/ Google] is an external link to Google.

[edit] Categorizing

[[Category:category name]] will link the page to a category. If this category doesn't already exist, it will be created automatically.

[edit] Creating Redirects

First, create the page you want to redirect. Then write #REDIRECT [[pagename]] or #redirect [[pagename]].

N.B. Extra text after the #REDIRECT command is ignored but category-tags are not ignored.

[edit] Uploading Images

1. Go to Special:Upload.
2. Browse to find your file.
3. Enter the name and extension you want it to have on Wiki in 'Destination filename'. For example: wiki.png
4. Enter a description in 'Summary'.
5. Click on 'Upload File".

You can see the list of all uploaded files on Special:Imagelist.

[edit] Inserting Images

[[Image:wikiname.png] will insert an image into a page.

[[Image:wikiname.png|thumb|caption] will insert a thumbnail with a caption into a page.

[edit] Signing Comments on Talk Pages

Three ~~~ give your user name: uw

Four ~~~~ give your user name plus date/time: uw 07:27, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Help Resources

MetaWiki Editing Help

Wiki Reference Card