Help:Contents
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Introduction
This is the main help page for the basingstoke.wiki site.
There are 3 types of help pages:
- Internal help pages:
- These are native to basingstoke.wiki
- They try to be a simple as possible while displaying as much information as is appropriate
- These are the recommended help pages for beginner to intermediate users and contributers
- MediaWiki help pages (External):
- MediaWiki is the software that basingstoke.wiki runs on
- They have comprehensive help pages on every aspect of a wiki
- They can be quite complicated
- They may list features not installed on basingstoke.wiki
- Wikipedia help pages (External):
- Wikipedia is probably the most famous wiki on the Internet
- They have comprehensive help pages on every aspect of a wiki
- They can be quite complicated
- They may list features not installed on basingstoke.wiki
- These help pages are often very similar to the MediaWiki help pages
Internal help pages
The following list shows links to all the internal help pages specific to basingstoke.wiki. These pages have been created with beginners in mind but should contain enough information up to intermediate users:
MediaWiki and Wikipedia help pages
The following table shows links to help pages from the MediaWiki and Wikipedia websites. These are only recommended for advanced users as they contain a great deal of detail and not all features listed may work on the basingstoke.wiki site.
| Help Area | MediaWiki Link |
Wikipedia Link |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Help Page | Link | Link | - |
| Cheatsheet | - | Link | - |
| Footnotes & References | - | Link | - |
| Headings & Sections | - | Link | - |
| Links | Link | Link | - |
| Lists (Bullet points and numbered lists) | Link | Link | - |
| Markup (Wikitext / Wikicode) | - | Link | - |
| Pictures & Video | Link | Link | MediaWiki article images only |
| Redirects | Link | Link | - |
| Tables | Link | Link | - |
| Text Formatting & Headings | - | Link | - |
Note: The above table is not exhaustive and just shows the most common help areas.