Help:Getting Started
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This help page will quickly get your account and first page set up!
Creating a log in
- click Create account on the upper right hand corner
- username should be the prefix of your vandal email
- email should be your vandal email
- complete form and click Create account
Setup Account
- log in
- click on your name in the upper left hand corner
- Click on the create tab
- Add your name and email to the page
- Add your signiture using four tildas: ~~~~
- click here and add your signature under you project name by typing four tildas: ~~~~
Create a page
- Read through the Page Names section under Developers'_Bulletin 11/12/13 entry
- enter the desired page name (exactly) into the search box
- if the page doesn't exist, click the name highlighted in red
- add some content
- click 'Save page' button
Setting up a page
- Click 'Discussion' (upper left corner)
- add your signature(using ~~~~) on the discussion page.
- on the very last line of your page add a category [[Category:CategoryName]]
- valid choices: Capstone Design, Mindworks
Editing your page
- Click the edit tab
- Add the following to your page: (See: Wikipedia:Cheatsheet)
- section 2, 3, 4 header (never use a section 1 header, page title are section 1s)
- bulleted list
- numbered List
- mixed numbered/bulleted list using tabs
- picture in thumb mode, aligned to the left of page, and width of 400 px
- File names must start with the year project started and project name
- ex. 2014_projectName_fileName
- File names must start with the year project started and project name
- an internal link to another page
- an external link
- a reference
- Note: the above link is for Wikipedia.org, which does their references slightly differently. Inserting {{reflist}} underneath the ==References== section will not work. Instead use <references/> html hash tag
- See 3D_Printing for an example of implementation. Or view the Example Page
- 3 tables from Developers'_Bulletin
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