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Help:Contents - Writing a Wiki Article - Formatting Cheatsheet

Welcome to the Help Pages

WikiVet is a collaboratively edited veterinary encyclopedia to which you can contribute. These series of articles aim to help you join in this ongoing project.

The following pages will discuss features of WikiVet, giving style and content guidance, and laying down some basic rules and guidelines to follow whilst using the WikiVet..

Please remember that this is only a basic tutorial and if you are struggling please look at the external Wikipedia help pages or email on of our admins. .

A key feature of WikiVet is the sandpit. This is essentially a practice area for editting and experimenting. No one will mind if you mess this page up whilst learning the ropes of WikiVet.

Writing a Wiki Article

Formatting

See also detailed help from MediaWiki

Layouts

General page layout for anatomy and physiology
- Pages should be a hybrid of bullet points and paragraphs. Try to avoid excessive use of either formatting
WikiPath guidelines
The link bar at the top of every page uses toplink
- For an explanation of its deployment across the wiki see here
For references use this citation template

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-|pagetitle =Welcome to the Help Pages
-|pagebody = WikiVet is a collaboratively edited veterinary encyclopedia to which you can contribute. These series of articles aim to help you join in this ongoing project. The following pages will discuss features of WikiVet, giving style and content guidance, and laying down some basic rules and guidelines to follow whilst using the WikiVet. Please remember that this is only a basic tutorial and if you are struggling please look at the external Wikipedia help pages or email on of our admins. A key feature of WikiVet is the [[sandpit]]. This is essentially a practice area for editing and experimenting. No one will mind if you mess this page up whilst learning the ropes of WikiVet.
-|contenttitle = Content
-|contentbody =<big><b>[[Help:General Guidelines|General Guidelines]]
-[[Help:Writing a Wiki Article|Writing a Wiki Article]]
-<br><sup>+ [[Help:Searching|Search tips]]</sup>
-[[Help:Reviewing content|Reviewing content]]
+==Welcome to the Help Pages==
-[[Help:Creating School Page|Creating a Vet School page]]
+WikiVet is a collaboratively edited veterinary encyclopedia to which you can contribute. These series of articles aim to help you join in this ongoing project.
-[[Help:Books|Creating an eBook or PDF]]
+The following pages will discuss features of WikiVet, giving style and content guidance, and laying down some basic rules and guidelines to follow whilst using the WikiVet..
-[[Help:WikiMarkup Formatting|Formatting Cheatsheet]]
+Please remember that this is only a basic tutorial and if you are struggling please look at the external Wikipedia help pages or email on of our admins. .
-[[Help:Personalise User Page|Personalising your user page]]
+A key feature of WikiVet is the [[sandpit]]. This is essentially a practice area for editting and experimenting. No one will mind if you mess this page up whilst learning the ropes of WikiVet.
-[[Help:Collapsible tables|Collapsible tables]]
-[[Help:Frequently Asked Questions |FAQ]]
-[[Help:Content Maps|Content Maps]]
+===[[Help:Writing a Wiki Article|Writing a Wiki Article]]===
+===[[Help:WikiMarkup Formatting|Formatting]]===
-[[Help:Templates|Templates]]
+*See also detailed [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents help from MediaWiki]
+===Layouts===
-[[Help:Extensions|Extensions]]
+*General page layout for [[Help:Anatomy and Physiology Template|anatomy and physiology]]
+**Pages should be a hybrid of bullet points and paragraphs. Try to avoid excessive use of either formatting
-[[Translate|Translating content]]
+*[[Help:WikiPath Guidelines|WikiPath guidelines]]
+*The link bar at the top of every page uses [[Template:Toplink|toplink]]
-[[Help:Find and Replace|Find and Replace ]]<sup>(sysop & 'authors' only)</sup>
+**For an explanation of its deployment across the wiki see [[Help:Toplink Deployment|here]]
+*For references use this [[template:citation|citation template]]
-[[WikiVet logos]]
-[[Sandpit]]
-[[Help:Videos|How-to videos]]</b></big>
-|logo =help-logo.png
-}}