Editing this Wiki

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Editing and starting articles

We welcome anyone to take part and help out with editing this wiki. However, due to spam problems, you have to create an acount first.

The best way to start an article, is to edit the page that should link to your new article and create an internal link there. Make sure you found a suitable name for your new page and avoid ambiguous names, abbreviations and too short names. Preview and save your changes if you are happy. This link is now red, because it points to an empty page. Just click the link and your are already in editing mode for your new article. Doing things this way ensures that we generate a structure on the fly.

Check en:Help:Contents, most of it applies here to. Missing Wikipedia features can be implemented if needed. Here is editing info in a nutshell.

If you are editing a wiki for the first time, use the Sandbox. Go wild there, as you please.


Discussion Pages

On discussion pages, you should sign your edits by pressing the icon above the editing area that's second to the right: Button sig.png. Do that with the cursor below your edit. Pressing the icon will add --~~~~, which will convert to your signature - provided you created an account and logged in. The signature shows your user name and the edit's date.

Please don't wedge you posts into other folk's post, this gets messy. Always add your posts below, preferably bottonmost on the page. Don't forget to use signatures, else nobody knows who wrote what.

Pictures, Videos and other content

As webspace is limited, please use external images inline, where possible, see TestImg. Internal images need to be uploaded and should be used when documenting or illustrating technical aspects of bike design. Please upload a meaningful picture of your bike, but don't upload extensive galleries here. This ensures that we can live on a small budget, while still having important documents on this server at the same time. Hence, we can minimise depedencies to other sites for important content and still extend documentation, footage, etc by linking to external sites.