Help:A CWC Guide to Wiki Editing

Editing the CWCki does not and should not depend on knowledge about Chris. One can have no idea who Chris is and still be a valued CWCki editor. The following is a "cwc" (pronounced "quick") guide to the basics of wiki editing.

Editing
Editing most CWCki pages is simple. Simply click on the "edit" tab at the top of a CWCki page. This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the current page.

Minor edits
A check to the "minor edit" box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the version with your edit and the previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, etc.

Talk (discussion) pages
Talk pages are similar to articles in that they also have a "new section" tab to start a new section or edit the whole page. One thing to remember is that that are exclusively for discussing improvements made to the article, they are not to discuss the article's subject itself.

Section headings
Use headings to split articles into sections. Put a heading on a separate line. A level-two heading is the highest level editors use in an article.

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Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them. Start with 2 'equals' characters.

Subsection Using more 'equals' characters creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection

Don't skip levels, like from two to four 'equals' characters.

A semicolon at the start of a line is a way of making headings that don't appear in the Table of Contents. It actually bolds the entire line (see below).
 * A non-TOC subsection

Section headings
Headings organize your writing into sections. The Wiki software can automatically generate a table of contents from them. Start with 2 'equals' characters.

Subsection
Using more 'equals' characters creates a subsection.

A smaller subsection
Don't skip levels, like from two to four 'equals' characters.

A semicolon at the start of a line is a way of making headings that don't appear in the TOC. It actually bolds the entire line (see below). Separating with a horizontal dividing line:
 * A non-TOC subsection
 * Horizontal line
 * Horizontal line
 * this is above it...


 * ...and this is below it.

If you don't use a section header, you don't get a TOC entry. Separating with a horizontal dividing line:
 * Horizontal line
 * this is above it...


 * ...and this is below it.

If you don't use a section header, you don't get a TOC entry.


 * }

Table of contents
When a page has at least four headings, a table of contents (TOC) will appear in front of the first header (after the lead). Putting anywhere forces the TOC to appear at that point (instead of just before the first heading). Putting anywhere forces the TOC to disappear. Putting anywhere will force the TOC to appear at that point, but also create the TOC, regardless of how many sections the article has.

Line breaks

 * You can make the wikitext more readable by putting in newlines.
 * To break lines use the  element. The HTML tag   will be converted to the XHTML   tag by HTML Tidy in most instances.
 * Please use these sparingly.
 * Close markup between lines; do not start a link or italics or bold on one line and close it on the next.
 * When used in a list, a newline does affect the layout.