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Latest revision as of 10:16, 6 March 2021

Help Guide

Whether you are new to the wiki, or an old hand, there are occasions when you may need a bit of help to figure something out. You may find it convenient to refer to this page for guidance when problems arise. Its easy to edit a page on the wiki, but with experience you're bound to run into more complex problems. This page may help you find the answers, as may a posting at the help desk, though you can always drop a message on someone's "talk page" and they may be able to help you. If you see a problem that doesn't seem to have a solution, please let us know---or if you figure out a solution to a problem, you might want to create a help page of your own to explain your discovery. Hey, we all need help from time to time, and we all go farther, faster, the more we help one another.

==Principal help pages==

Here's a set of links to some of the most useful general purpose help pages

On this Familypedia Wiki:

Wikia and Wikipedia help pages:

Wikia Central's help category
Wikia Central's help index page
http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_University
MediaWiki Editor Handbook, the help pages for the software we're using
Wikipedia help contents

==Other helpful pages==

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-Whether you are new to the Wiki, or an old hand, there are occasions when you may need a bit of help to figure something out.  This page is intended to list the most useful "Help:" pages. You may find it convenient to refer to this page for guidance when problems arise.  Its easy to edit a page on the Wiki, but with experience you're bound to run into more complex problems.  This page may help you find the answers, though  you can always drop a message on someone's "talk page" and they may be able to help you.  But if you see a problem that doesn't seem to have a solution, please let us know---or if you figure out a solution to a problem, you might want to create a help page of your own to explain your discovery.  Hey, we all need help from time to time, and we all go farther, faster, the more we help one another.
+Whether you are new to the wiki, or an old hand, there are occasions when you may need a bit of help to figure something out. You may find it convenient to refer to this page for guidance when problems arise. Its easy to edit a page on the wiki, but with experience you're bound to run into more complex problems. '''This page may help you find the answers, as may a posting at the [[forum:help desk|help desk]]''', though you can always drop a message on someone's "talk page" and they may be able to help you. If you see a problem that doesn't seem to have a solution, please let us know---or if you figure out a solution to a problem, you might want to create a help page of your own to explain your discovery. Hey, we all need help from time to time, and we all go farther, faster, the more we help one another.
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 Here's a set of links to some of the most useful general purpose help pages
-On this Genealogy Wiki:
+On this Familypedia Wiki:
+*[[Help:Create an account]]
+*[[Forum:Help desk|Ask your own questions]]
 *[[Help:Contents]]
 *[[:Category:Help]]
 *[[help:Editing|General editing guidance]]
-*[[Help:Starting pages|Starting a new article page]]
+*[[Help:Articles/start|Starting a new article page and improving one]]
 *[[help:Images|Inserting images]]
 Wikia and Wikipedia help pages:
-* [[w:Category:Help|The help category on Wikia Central]]
+* [[w:Category:Help|Wikia Central's help category]]
 *[[w:Help:Contents|Wikia Central's help index page]]
+*http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_University
 * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editor MediaWiki Editor Handbook], the help pages for the software we're using
 * [[Wikipedia:Help:Contents|Wikipedia help contents]]
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-*[[Help/Just Starting|Just Starting?]]
+*[[Help/Just Starting|Just starting?]]
-*[[Help/Using Templates|Using Templates]]
+*[[Help/Using Templates|Using templates]]
-*[[Help/HTML Guidance|HTML Guidance]]
+*[[Help/HTML Guidance|HTML guidance]]
-*[[Help/Frequently Answered Questions|Frequently Answered Questions]]
+*[[Help/Frequently Answered Questions|Frequently asked questions]]
-*[[Help/Making Tables|Making Tables]]
+*[[Help/Making Tables|Making tables]]
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