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===About Editing===
===About Editing===
This website was made using software called Mediawiki (just like Wikipedia!) There is a TON of documentation (manuals, guides, templates, and so on) available for free on the internet that will teach you how to do things with Mediawiki. Use Google to find it.
This website was made using software called Mediawiki (just like Wikipedia!) There is a TON of documentation (manuals, guides, templates, and so on) available for free on the internet that will teach you how to do things with Mediawiki. Use Google to find it.
'''To get started, [http://www.sprocketschool.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Main+Page create an account].'''


'''Starting a new page'''
'''Starting a new page'''
*First check to see if the page you want to work on exists already or not by looking at the list of All Pages: http://www.sprocketschool.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllPages
* These are the pages that exist already: http://www.sprocketschool.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllPages
* Next, check the list of Wanted pages: http://www.sprocketschool.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages
* These are the pages we want to have that don't exist yet: http://www.sprocketschool.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WantedPages
*If there's no page for what you want to add, you can create a new one. The easiest way to do this is to simply replace http://www.sprocketschool.org/w/index.php?title=THISPART of the URL with the name of the page you want to create and click "create" at the top of the resulting page.
* Here are instructions for starting a new page from scratch: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page


'''Editing an existing page'''
'''Editing an existing page'''
*Beginning to do this is easy: just click the "edit" link at the top of each page. Adding links and fancy formatting is a little more complicated, but fairly simple. Here's Mediawiki's guide to basic editing: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
* Beginning to do this is easy: just click the "edit" link at the top of each page.
*Another great thing about wikis is that even if you can't figure out how to format something properly or make it look exactly how you want it to - even if all you feel like doing is dumping a bunch of text into the editing box - someone else can come and make it pretty for you.
* Here's Mediawiki's guide to basic editing: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing


'''On cooperative editing: things to keep in mind'''
'''On cooperative editing: things to keep in mind'''
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