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Creating an Article - MediaWiki - Wiki Tutorial

June 6, 2007 – 3:38 pm | by gaulardcom

This is a pretty easy one. I have been playing around with my Wiki a bit here and there and have discovered a few things.

One of the most recent is how to create an article, or page (well, that’s what it turns into anyway). Basically, you can either do this as a member of the website or not. Anyone has the ability to create an article. If you register as a member of the Wiki, you have many more options, such as protecting, deleting, moving and watching an article. Also, I think it gives it more authority, but I may be wrong.

The easiest way to create an article is to do a search for the topic on what you want to write about. If a similar article exists, you can edit that one or you can create a new one. If one is not there, you will see a line at the top of the page body that says, “There is no page titled “XXXXXXX”. You can create this page.” Just click the “create this page” link and go to town.

In the white box, place your text and whatever else you want (to be discussed later). Then, at the bottom of the page body, write a short summary of what your article is about. This will help things later on when other people are adding and editing.