Difference between revisions of "Help:Notes for Users"

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The Family Tree Forum Wiki

This section of the site has been created as a repository for reference information that has previously been stored within threads in the forums. This has had the effect of splitting the site into definitive Reference and Forum sections

Viewing the Wiki

Accessing the information

All underlined blue text is a hyperlink. Some pages are within The Wiki itself, other links will take you to external sites.

Navigating The Wiki

Searching The Wiki

Adding Content

All users will have the ability to create and edit (but not delete) pages within the Wiki.

These creations and amendments will be tracked and moderated to ensure conformity with layout as well as preventing undesirable content from remaining on the site.

If you wish to create content, please read the The Wiki Guide first to familiarise yourself.

Any content not formatted to the style of the rest of the site will be amended.

Please note that all contributions to Family Tree Forum may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you don't want your writing to be edited, then don't submit it.

You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Copyrights for details).

DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!

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 This section of the site has been created as a repository for reference information that has previously been stored within threads in the forums. This has had the effect of splitting the site into definitive '''Reference''' and '''Forum''' sections
-All users will have the ability to create and edit (but not delete) pages within the Wiki. These creations and amendments will be tracked by members of the Site Content and Development team to ensure conformity with layout as well as preventing undesirable content from remaining on the site.
-If you wish to create content, please read the [[Help:Notes for Editors]] first to familiarise yourself.  Any content not formatted to the style of the rest of the site will be amended.
-<br><br>
 ==Viewing the Wiki==
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 ====Accessing the information====
-All underlined blue text is a hyperlink - some pages are within The Wiki itself, other links will take you to external sites.
+'''All underlined blue text is a hyperlink'''. Some pages are within The Wiki itself, other links will take you to external sites.
-'''*[[Navigating the Wiki]]'''
-'''*[[Searching the Wiki]]'''
-*Some pages have links to Visual Guides. These are actually images which you might find useful to save or print out for reference. If you do choose to print these pages, it is best to print the picture by right clicking on your mouse and selecting print from the menu.
-<br><br>
-====Reporting problems, typos and other mistakes====
-Please report any instances of these in the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/support-site/19707-report-problem-wiki.html Report a Problem (WIKI)] thread
-====Making suggestions and adding information if not an editor====
-Please post any information to be added in the [http://www.familytreeforum.com/support-site/19709-suggestions-links-wikid.html Suggestions/Links to be added to the Wiki] thread.
-==Help Pages for The Wiki==
-'''The Help Pages are in the process of being reorganised and updated.'''
-====Adding content====
-* [[Help:Notes for Users|Help for Users]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Help:Notes for Editors|Help for Editors]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Working With Tables]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Style and Presentation in The Wiki]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Adding Content to The Wiki ~ New Pages]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Adding Content to The Wiki ~ Working With Images]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Adding Content to The Wiki ~ Using Multiple Images]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Using Images as Hyperlinks|Adding Content to The Wiki ~ Using Images as Hyperlinks]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Adding Content to The Wiki ~ Mixing Text and Images]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-====Visual Reference====
+* '''[[Navigating The Wiki]]'''
-* [[Navigating the Wiki|Navigating The Wiki]][[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Searching the Wiki|Searching The Wiki]][[image:unfinish.jpg]]
+* '''[[Searching The Wiki]]'''
-* [[Uploading images to The Wiki]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Editing Your User Page]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
+==Adding Content==
-* [[Surname Help|Adding Surnames to The Surname Directory]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
+All users will have the ability to create and edit (but not delete) pages within the Wiki.
-* [[Adding Unwanted BMD Certificates|How to add your unwanted certificates]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
+These creations and amendments will be tracked and moderated to ensure conformity with layout as well as preventing undesirable content from remaining on the site.
-* [[County model|Template for County Pages]][[image:unfinish.jpg]]
-* [[Authoring|Formatting Text]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
+If you wish to create content, please read the [[image:minibad.jpg]] '''[[:Category:Help|The Wiki Guide]]''' first to familiarise yourself.
-* [[Help:Hyperlink Code|Coding a Hyperlink for The Wiki]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
+Any content not formatted to the style of the rest of the site will be amended.
-* [[Examples of useful code|Miscellaneous Code]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
+Please note that all contributions to Family Tree Forum may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you don't want your writing to be edited, then don't submit it.
+You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see [[Project:Copyrights|Copyrights]] for details).
-*[[Main Page]]
+'''DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!'''