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Editing a Page

To start editing a wiki article simply click on the edit tab at the top of the page or on a section [edit] link at the right side of the section title. This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the original page. Just type what you want to edit in the edit box (see Formatting a Page below). The Editing Interface article explains the components of the editing page.

Show Preview

One important feature to start using is the Show preview button that is located below the edit box. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this prior to saving. This allows you to check what the page will look like first and to check that you haven't made any errors. It also prevents the need for multiple saves. Saving the same article a large number of times in quick succession makes it harder for people to check what changed. The wiki versions and logs each change/save.

Edit summary

It is good practice to fill in the Edit Summary field, or add to it in the case of section editing, as it helps everyone to understand what is changed. The edit summary box can hold one line of 200 characters.

Discussion Page

You can also click on the discussion tab at the top of a page to see the corresponding talk page, which contains comments about the page from other wiki users. Click on the + tab to add a new section, or edit the page in the same way as an article page.

Creating a Page

On the search box at the left on the navigation bar, write the name of the article you want to create and press the Go button. If the page doesn't exist this will bring you to a page informing you that no such entry exists. Simply click on the red link "create this page" and an empty edit box will open up. Before creating an article, try to make sure there isn't already an article with the same topic, perhaps under a slightly different name.

You may also creating a new page by using the links in red from an existing page. As you read through the wiki entries, you can see clickable links in red and blue. The blue ones are to entries that already exist, the red ones are for entries that haven’t been written yet. If you click on such a red link the same empty edit box as explained above will pop up.

There are some rules regarding the page naming in the wiki:

• Use valid characters: Page names or titles cannot have special characters (such as [, ], {, }, |, #, <, and >) that are used by MediaWiki internally. Valid characters for a page title are: A-Z, 0-9, %, /, ?, :, @, =, &, $, _, -, +, !, *, ', (, ), and , .
• Do not use a very long page title: Always try to restrict the length of the page title to be not more than 255 characters. If the title length is more than this, then it will be automatically truncated.

Check the wiki style guideline for further details.

Formatting a Page

Description	Wiki Text	Result
Applies anywhere
Italicise text	''italic''	italic
Bold text	'''bold'''	bold
Bold and italic	'''''bold & italic'''''	bold & italic
Internal link (within the wiki)	[[Name of page]] [[Name of page|different title]]	Name of page different title
Category	[[Category:Example]]	Add article to category “Example“
External link (to other website)	[http://www.example.org] [http://www.example.org displayed text] http://www.example.org	[1] displayed text http://www.example.org
Redirect to another page	#REDIRECT [[Target page]]	Redirect to Target page
Applies only at the beginning of the line
Headings (A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article)	== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ======	Headings in different sizes
Bulleted list	* One * Two ** Two point one * Three	One Two Two point one Three
Numbered list	# One # Two ## Two point one # Three	One Two Two point one Three
Image	[[Image:File.jpg|Text]] [[Image:File.jpg|frame|Text]] [[Image:File.jpg|thumb|Text]]	Image with alternative text Image aligned right with caption Thumbnail
Download link	[[Media:Wiki-Guideline.pdf]]	Download Wiki-Guideline.pdf.ogg
Horizontal Line	----

Searching

The quickest way to find information in the wiki is to look it up directly. On the left-hand side of your screen there is a Search box with two buttons under it labeled "Go" and "Search".

How it works

Here's how the search works:

• The article content is searched in its raw (wikitext) form - i.e. it searches the text that appears in the edit box when you click 'edit', not the rendered page.
• Even if you enclose a phrase in quotes, the search looks for each word individually. e.g. if you enter "XML Schemas" it will return pages that contain "XML" and "Schemas".
• The search is not case-sensitive, so "EuroRegister", "euroregister" and "EUROREGISTER" all give the same result.

Restricting the search

If you click the 'Search' button without filling in anything, you will be taken to 'Special:Search' which gives you extra searching options (also available from any search results list)

Categories

You may categorize pages by adding one or more category tags to the text. Adding these tags create links at the bottom of the article which take you to the list of all pages in that category, which makes it easy to browse related articles.

To add an article to a category put the following at the end of the page you are editing:

[[Category:CategoryName]]

where CategoryName is the name of the category you want to add it to. Any number of category tags may be added to the page - the page will be listed in all of them.

You can also specify an additional Ordering parameter that dictates where the page will appear, alphabetically, within the category page. This is achieved by using the following markup:

[[Category:CategoryName|OrderingName]]

So for example, to add this page to the 'Help' category, you would use:

[[Category:Help|Categories]]

Note that we used 'Categories' as the sort parameter. Without this the page would be listed under 'H' for 'Help:Categories', instead of under 'C', which is more useful.

To create a link to a category page:

[[:Category:CategoryName]]

If you were linking to the Category Page for Help, the link would look like this: Category:Help

If you want to display alternate text for the link:

[[:Category:CategoryName|AlternateText]]

Here is an example of the same link to the Category Page for Help as above, but with alternative text: Wiki Help Index

User Account

Changing Password

To change your password, enter your old password in the first box and your new password in the last two. If you want this site to remember your login, check Remember my login on this computer.

Forgotten Password / Password Reset

If you have forgotten your password to log in to the wiki, you can receive a new password to the e-mail address you registered by pressing the "E-mail password" button on the login box:

By introducing this password on the login box you will be able to reset the password and introduce the new one:

Table of Contents

Default Display (Left, No float)

By default a table of contents box is displayed when headings or subheadings on the page are created and it is located on the left and text does not flow around it.

Disable Display

By inserting __NOTOC__ at the top of the page, the display of TOC is disable.

Change Display to Right and Float

By inserting the template {{RightTOC}} the TOC will float on the right of the page.