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To do this, type this at the top of the page: <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[pagename]]</nowiki>
To do this, type this at the top of the page: <nowiki>#REDIRECT [[pagename]]</nowiki>


===Navigation Boxes===
===Templates and Navigation Boxes===
If you see a navigation box like this:
If you see a navigation box like this:


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Click on the "V" on the left to edit.
Click on the "V" on the left to edit.


To reference an existing navigation box, type this: <nowiki>{{Navigation:Brigham Young}}</nowiki>
To use an existing navigation box, type this: <nowiki>{{Navigation:Brigham Young}}</nowiki>
 
Navigation boxes are MediaWiki templates.  You can also edit these with a URL similar to this: <nowiki>https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Template:Navigation:Brigham Young</nowiki>.  Notice the keyword "Template:" must be used right before the name of the page in the URL.
 
Or when logged in for editing the wiki, you can type "Navigation:Brigham Young" into the Search bar in the upper left, then click on Everything link.


===More Formatting Options===
===More Formatting Options===
This wiki software is called "MediaWiki". If you want to see many more formatting options, go to the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting MediaWiki website].
This wiki software is called "MediaWiki". If you want to see many more formatting options, go to the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting MediaWiki website].

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How to edit the Wiki

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Creating a Page

To create a page, copy/paste this URL into your browser: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/NameOfNewPage

Replace "NameOfNewPage" with the name of your new page. You will be prompted to create a new page. If you want spaces to appear in the name of the page (e.g., your page will be "Brigham Young and Plural Marriage"), then use underscores instead of spaces in the URL (e.g., https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Brigham_Young_and_Plural_Marriage).

Note that there are two wikis: "answers" and "evidences". If you are adding a page to the "evidences" wiki, you will replace the "answers" with "evidences" in the URL above. Any internal navigation will be only within the wiki you are in.

Editing a Page

Find the page you want to edit, and click "Edit" on the left menu, or anywhere else you see an "edit" link. You often will want to look at other similar pages to see how they format their pages.

Headers

To create a header for a page like "Headers" above, use "=" signs (above uses size 3):

= Header Size 1 =

== Header Size 2 ==

=== Header Size 3 ===

==== Header Size 4 ====

If you want the name of the page (after "answers" in the URL) to appear as a bolded header, use this at the top:

{{Header}}

Formatting Scriptures

{{s||John|7|42}} results in: John 7꞉42

{{s|2|Nephi|3|14-15}} results in: 2 Nephi 3꞉14-15

Quoting

To quote something, use <blockquote>"Put the quote here"<ref>Put the reference here</ref></blockquote>

This is the result:

"Put the quote here"[1]

Linking Outside the Wiki

To make a hyperlink to the outside internet, use this format:

[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bd/joseph-smith-translation?lang=eng JST from the church website]

(Notice the first space separates where the link goes from what is displayed.)

This shows a link like this: JST from the church website

Linking Inside the Wiki

To make a hyperlink to a page within the wiki you are in:

[[Brigham Young|Click here for the awesome Brigham Young Main Page]]

Click here to go to Brigham Young Main Page

So "Brigham Young" is the name of the page (after "answers" in the URL). "Click here to go to Brigham Young Main Page" is what the reader sees to click on.

Parent and Child Pages

The old style was to add all content for a topic on one gigantic page that scrolls forever. Then we discovered you could import the contents of an independent sub-page onto your gigantic page as if it was already together with "transclusion": {{:NewPageName}}

However we are moving away from this for a few reasons.

It's better to have a main page with a summary of the topic, then links or a Navigation box to additional sub pages (see "Linking Inside the Wiki"). This will be better for search results, and you can use things like {{Header}}.

Redirecting

If there is an older and a more updated page, it's better to "redirect" to the new one, so the user who finds the old page will be automatically sent to the new page.

To do this, type this at the top of the page: #REDIRECT [[pagename]]

Templates and Navigation Boxes

If you see a navigation box like this:

Articles about Brigham Young
Teachings
History
Race
Critics

Click on the "V" on the left to edit.

To use an existing navigation box, type this: {{Navigation:Brigham Young}}

Navigation boxes are MediaWiki templates. You can also edit these with a URL similar to this: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Template:Navigation:Brigham Young. Notice the keyword "Template:" must be used right before the name of the page in the URL.

Or when logged in for editing the wiki, you can type "Navigation:Brigham Young" into the Search bar in the upper left, then click on Everything link.

More Formatting Options

This wiki software is called "MediaWiki". If you want to see many more formatting options, go to the MediaWiki website.

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