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Help and instructions for using this site

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The contents of this site is organized into pages, where each page belongs to a wiki group (see site structure for more details). You can use your browser to change the content of this site by editing pages and uploading files.

In order to edit a page, click on the link Edit Page (upper right corner or bottom row). However, before you actually change an important page, go to the playground and practice editing in a sandbox using the text formatting rules.

In order to create a new page, you should usually first add a link to the new page from the group's PageList. Then simply click on the question mark ¹ after the link that you just created.

In order to upload a file, you can use the link Upload file next to the Edit-links, but please read about uploading first.

Finally, remember that if you have a question about this site, first look at the site FAQ.

Here is a list of general help pages:

Welcome: Introduction to this wiki-wiki site
Tips: Tips for using this site
Navigation: Finding your way around this site
- SiteMap: Site overview
- Site.GroupMap ?: Page Group Map ?]] is undefined.
- LyX.GroupMap: Overview of the groups about (or related to) LyX
- Devel.GroupMap ?: Page Group Map ?]] is undefined.
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions concerning this site
AccessKeys: Using accesskeys (i.e. keyboard shortcuts) at this site
AboutUploading: Help about uploading files
SiteStructure: General structure of this site
AboutListPages: About list pages...
WritingPages: Tips for writing pages to this site
- WikiHelp ?
- PmWiki.DocumentationIndex: List of documentation pages for the wiki engine.

Here are some good places to look for help with PmWiki. For a more complete list, see PmWiki.DocumentationIndex.

Authoring Help
- BasicEditing
- CreatingNewPages
- TextFormattingRules
- TipsForEditing ?
- Passwords
- PmWiki.DocumentationIndex: List of PmWiki documenation pages

Other wikis

Finally, here are some links (to other wikis) for introductions:

PmWiki:PmWiki is the wiki site of the WikiEngine ? that runs this site.
Meatball:StyleGuide has some discussion on how to write for the curious. As long as common sense prevails, nothing else is needed. Try to avoid shallow pages: There is no need to create pages just to define terms.
Meatball:WhyWikiWorks explains why wikis (hopefully) generate interesting content and why there is not much abuse.