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Editing DrumCorpsWiki
- Contributing to DrumCorpsWiki provides a guide on ways to get involved in editing.
Life cycle of an article - how to:
- Guide to the Life cycle of an article
- Start a new page
- Write your first article
- Write a better article
- Write a great article
- Write the perfect article
- Create an article series
- Translate articles
Article maintenance - how to:
- Name and rename a page (Requested moves)
- Create pages for topics with several different definitions (disambiguation)
- Delete pages/images/categories
- Categorize
- Revert a page to an earlier version
- Deal with vandalism
- Protect and unprotect pages (Administrators only)
- Link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
- Link words in articles to articles on sister projects
- Use page names
- Use namespaces
- Use headings as anchors to link to
- Create subpages
- Archive a talk page
- Archive Current Events
- Do a purge
- Edit with an external editor
- Test edits, and other things
To learn how to keep track of your (or other people's) edits, see Tracking changes
Sources
- Cite the sources: How | Why | What is a reliable source?
- Sources for articles
- List of Resources for researchers
- Public domain resources
- Newspapers and magazines request service
- Standard letters requesting permission to use copyright works
- Standard letters for dealing with violations of DrumCorpsWiki's license
Style
- List of style guidelines
- Layout
- Naming conventions
- Disambiguation (pages which resolve ambiguity for articles with similar titles)
- Captions
- Image use
- Use Proper names
- How to break a long article into a series
Formatting - how to:
- Use Wiki markup codes
- HTML codes in wikitext
- Create lists
- Use footnotes
- Use tables
- Use special characters
For image use see the Images and media section.
Templates
The DrumCorpsWiki syntax
- Tables
- Redirect
- Infobox
- "Magic words" allow you to change default behaviour or automate text eg. you can disable a Table of Contents or move its position, or insert & automaticly update the current date, month etc. See also: Variables.
- Help:Editing shortcuts
- Use easy timeline syntax
- Edit mathematical formulae using TeX