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Like Wikipedia, '''Sprocket School''' was made using software called '''MediaWiki'''. MediaWiki has extensive instructions on editing and formatting on their '''[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents website]'''.




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<center>'''To get started with Sprocket School, [http://www.sprocketschool.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main+Page create an account].'''</center>
 
Like Wikipedia, '''Sprocket School''' was made using software called '''MediaWiki'''. MediaWiki has extensive instructions on editing and formatting on their '''[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents website]'''.





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To get started with Sprocket School, create an account.


Like Wikipedia, Sprocket School was made using software called MediaWiki. MediaWiki has extensive instructions on editing and formatting on their website.


General pointers

  • This is a tool intended to serve a relatively small field, so register under a real or otherwise recognizable name.
  • The current user list is here.
  • You can see recent contributions to the site on the Recent changes page.
  • Look at an article's editing history by clicking the "history" tab at the top of any page.
  • Each page has a "discussion" tab at the top. This is a good place to ask questions and make suggestions about a given topic.
  • You can "sign" your contributions to the discussion page (or any other page) by typing "-- ~ ~ ~ ~" - without the spaces! - or by just hitting the little button that looks like a signature at the top of the editing box. It looks like this: -- Rfhall (talk) 00:44, 3 August 2013 (PDT)


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