Help:Contents

If you are a new editor, please read our simple rules and refer to our Style Guide before editing a page. If you want to create a page, please read our guide to starting a new page first.

SurveyWiki uses exactly the same content management system as Wikipedia. So, learning how to edit content on SurveyWiki, is exactly the same as learning to do it on Wikipedia. Most of the links below will take you to Wikipedia help pages and you can simply apply what you learn there to SurveyWiki. A few pages are specific to SurveyWiki.

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Quick Help Editing Pages Tutorial Cheatsheet - an editing reference card. Saving Report your change in the edit summary Handle an edit conflict Use minor edits Use the "Show preview" button Creating pages Name a page Starting a new page Categorising your pages Style Style Guide Captions The SurveyWiki interface Find your way around. Edit toolbar Page history User contributions pages Use Discussion pages Recent changes page Diff pages Edit conflicts The watchlist

General Help Experiment with editing pages in the sandbox. You can also carry out editing experiments "in situ" by editing the page itself and using the Show preview button. Be careful not to accidentally save the page though! If you do, then revert your changes. How to edit a page Wiki markup: Descriptions of what you type when you want to format text Create links and change the title of a link (pipe a link) Use sections in an article Insert a picture Use redirect pages Create lists Use footnotes and references Use tables Use mathematical formulae Use special characters. The display of fonts and other character sets in your browser. Using HTML code in wikitext Use "magic words" and variables. Article maintenance Revert a page to an earlier version Use page names Use namespaces Use headings as anchors to link to Do a purge