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The "pipe" as described above is also useful on its own. If you just add the pipe after an article name, it will automatically remove its namespace and any words in parentheses afterwards. For example, try typing <nowiki>[[Mortal Realms|]] and [[Category:Mortal Realms|]]</nowiki>.
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The "pipe" as described above is also useful on its own. If you just add the pipe after an article name, it will automatically remove its namespace and any words in parentheses afterwards. For example, try typing <nowiki>[[Mortal Realms|]] and [[Category:Mortal realms|]]</nowiki>.
 
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You will see link to the articles [[Mortal Realms]] and [[:Category:Mortal Realms]] but they will look like this:
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You will see link to the articles [[Mortal Realms]] and [[:Category:Mortal realms]] but they will look like this:
  
[[Mortal Realms]] and [[:Category:Mortal Realms|Mortal Realms]].
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Latest revision as of 15:30, 26 February 2020

In order to begin learning the basics of editing and creating articles, you should first visit the Chaos wastes, where you can experiment with the markup language Lexicanum uses. The article Chaos wastes is created to allow new users to experiment with the markup without affect important articles.

Simple Editing

Step What to do What Happens

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Click here to open the Chaos wastes (you should probably open this in a new window - Shift+Click for most browsers - so you can still follow along on this page). (To open the Chaos wastes in a new tab in newer browsers that provide tabs, press Ctrl+Click for most browsers - so you can still follow along on this page).

The page Chaos wastes opens up. It probably already contains text written by other users.


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Click on "Edit" near the top of the page. When the editing page loads, you may also want to open Editing Help (a link is located below the editing pane).

A new page loads showing all the content of the Chaos wastes, now capable of being modified.

You'll probably notice several strange symbols, mostly short words in square brackets - [ and ] - or in angle brackets - < and >. These are "tags" that help to format the article to make it easier to read or to add certain special functions. The square-bracketed tags are MediaWiki tags (the basics are explained at Editing Help) and the angle-bracketed tags are simple HTML.


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Make a few changes to the article and then click "Save Page" below.

(Note: paragraphs can be made by inserting a blank line between two blocks of text).

The page is updated with your changes, and other users are able to view them (as well as a record of what changes were made and when).

If, while you were editing the page, another user saved his version of the page, you will be notified that there is an editing conflict. In this case the upper text field contains the text of the other user, own your text below, and between them the difference between both versions. You can then choose whether to edit the page to incorporate the other user's changes, or upload your own version.


Adding Links and New Articles

Schritt What to do What Happens

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At the Chaos wastes, click again on "edit" and add some text in double square brackets, for example: [[Felix Jaeger]]. Then click on "preview" to show you the result.

You will see a link to the article Felix Jaeger. If this page already exists, clicking on the link will take you to that article. If not, you will be taken to an editing window to add text to the article when you click on it.


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If you would like the link text to differ from the article, add a "pipe" (looks like '|') after the name of the article and then type in the text you would like to be displayed. For example, [[Nagash|The Great Necromancer]]

You will see a link to the article Nagash, but it will look like this:

The Great Necromancer.


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The "pipe" as described above is also useful on its own. If you just add the pipe after an article name, it will automatically remove its namespace and any words in parentheses afterwards. For example, try typing [[Mortal Realms|]] and [[Category:Mortal realms|]].

You will see link to the articles Mortal Realms and Category:Mortal realms but they will look like this:

Mortal Realms and Mortal realms.

Where to Now?

You may want to look at the next page like this, Second Steps, or you might want to view the Tutorial, which gives a more general overview of the things you can do at Lexicanum.


This article is based on the article Erste Schritte from the free Encyclopedia Wikipedia and is protected by the GNU License for Free Documentation. In the Wikipedia there is a list of authors available at List of Authors, and one may work on the article there.