Category:About this wiki and how to use it.
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This wiki is a collaborative undertaking. It basically falls into two major parts. One is a moderated collection of articles on breeding and caring for guppies. The other are blogs from a wide range of hobbyists about their methods.
Current list of users: List of Users Those listed as "sysops" are volunteer editors of the wiki.
Anybody can create or edit a wiki article or blog. A group of sysops (people who have volunteered to moderate the wiki) validate changes to articles, have the authority to rollback spam, spurious or malignant additions to the articles and help maintain order in its development.
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Getting started
- If you are interested in volunteering to maintain the wiki please post a message on the IGEES or Guppies.com forums.
- Editors and Sysops read: User's Guide.
- Administrators read: Configuration settings list
- Administrators read" MediaWiki FAQ
Editing an existing article
- Simply click on the edit tab above the article. If the page is not protected from editing, then the page is displayed in edit mode. You can simply make changes to the page. It is that simple!
- For help on formatting text, click on the "Editing help" link at the bottom of the page you are editing: Help:editing.
- For comprehensive help on editing or changing an existing page see this article: How to Edit a Page
Creating a new article or blog
- Think of a unique title for your article, as each article in the wiki has a unique title. Instead of "Introduction," write "Introduction to George's Guppy Blog."
- Begin the article as a stub. Just write a few sentences to get an article started. Remember that other people can and will jump in to improve the article. See Guide to Improving Articles
- If you have a number of articles to add to the wiki, contact an editor on one of the wiki forums. IGEES Wiki Forum or the Guppies.com Wiki Forum They will either show you how to create and categorize your article, or they will put your article into the wiki itself.
- Different ways of creating a new page: Creating a wiki page
- Ways of organizing your page with sections, lists, bullets etc.: Organizing your writing
- Need to create a table? Here is help: Creating tables
- If you have lost a page you were editing, find it here: Lost Page List
- Rolling back a recent editing change: The wiki keeps a record of all changes made to pages. If you want to undo a recent edit, select "Recent changes" from the navigation menu on the left, click on the page history link (hist), and click on the (rollback) link beside the last change to the page. This will revert to the earlier version of the page. Here is link to the list of recent page changes: [Recent Changes]
Organizing pages into categories
- Categories are simply pages that contain links to other pages. These other pages can be subcategories.
- To create a category, create a link to the category page on another page using the following format: [[:Category: Category Name]] "Category Name" is the name of the category you want to create.
- Then save the page and click on the category link you just created. This will open a blank page for the category.
- To assign a page to a category you previously created, use the following format: [[Category: Category Name]]
Images
Only images that have been uploaded to the wiki can be used. To upload images, click on the "Upload file" link in the toolbox menu to the left. This takes you to the upload page. Upload your image. Once the image is in the wiki database, you can then use a variety of methods in your article to place the image on the page, see: Image Editing
Forgot the name of the uploaded image? You can find a previously uploaded image on the image list.
Tables
To create a table, click on the table image 
on the "editing toolbar." For detailed help, click here: Creating tables
Superscript
Displaying superscript: XYP. (Shows that the guppy is Y-linked for the Platinum gene.)
In edit mode enter this: XY<sup>P</sup>
Pages in category "About this wiki and how to use it."
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