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==To find something on this site== |
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Revision as of 23:25, 22 February 2007
Help GuideWhether 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. |
Principal Help PagesHere's a set of links to some of the most useful general purpose help pages On this Genealogy Wiki: Wikia and Wikipedia help pages:
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Just Starting?
(If you want, you can practice in the Sandbox first. It's there for "practicing", or experimenting with something. It's a good place to get used to how the wiki works.)
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HTML
* Need a link to HTML Tutorial Some Hints and Tricks. Margie's tricks can be used even if you don't really understand what HTML is, or does. Entity tags: These are specialized html 'phrases' that allow you to insert special characters (like a cent sign (¢)) (don't forget the ';' at the end of the phrase). Color coding: It is possible to add color to your HTML tables, text boxes, and fonts. Colors are specified with HexaDecimal codes, but for some colors "name labels" can also be used. The following link takes you to a table showing the various labels. Signatures: You may find it useful to create a specialized signature when signing your name to comments, etc. Some instructions may be found at:
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Other Matters
The records here are meant to form a historic record for the families concerned. Please do not include private information about living individuals without specific permission from the individuals. For more detail and reasons, please see our main privacy page.
Some cultures are sensitive to the recording of certain types of information.
There is (or is intended to be) for each surname a separate category, which in turn is a subcategory of the category for surnames in general. Edit or create a category link at the bottom of the individual's page to put that page automatically in the surname category.
Where you are familiar with alternative spellings (eg White/Whyte), please note them on the category page and if possible link to those categories. Other readers may not have known of the alternatives or thought to look there. (See Help:Surname categories for more detail)
As we are on the same licence/license as Wikipedia, text from there may be copied if given proper acknowledgment. Please see Genealogy:Wikipedia. |
Any other questions?
- Genealogy:Watercooler - for contributors' questions and occasional answers, with some links to other pages that go into detail about some of the questions