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If you look at a page in Whiplash Connection, you'll find three main navigation elements: The sidebar on the left gives you access to important pages in the system like recent changes. At the top of the page are the links which belong to the page currently displayed: its associated discussion page, the version history, and - most notably - the edit link. In the top right corner you'll find, as an anonymous user, the link to create an account and login (they are on the same page). As a logged-in user you have a collection of personal links, like the one to your user page or your preferences.

Navigation

Sidebar

Example sidebar, shown on the left of the page

The sidebar is displayed on the left edge of the page below the site logo. This sidebar gives you access to important pages, as well as to the main topics.

Navigation

A click on the Mainpage brings you back to the start page of the system. The links take you to important pages

Toolbox

The toolbox contains a selection of links which change depending on what type of page you are viewing.

On all pages (except special pages):

• What links here takes you to a special page that lists the pages on this wiki which contain a link to the current page. This is helpful when you are looking for pages of related information. The What links here information can also be useful when you are refactoring wiki pages and need to check whether links to this page are still relevant after changes in the current page.

• The Related changes tool lists all recent changes in the pages linked to from the current page. Recent changes to all relevant template pages are included in the resulting page list. The "Hide minor edits" option that can be set in the user preferences applies, among other things, to Related Changes.

On all pages (including special pages):

• The Special pages tool lists the systems special pages. In the used terminology, a special page is one that presents information about pages and/or allows access to administration activities for the pages. For example, a list of users registered with the system, statistics such as the number of pages and number of page edits, system logs, a list of orphaned pages, and so on.

Page Tabs

Default page tabs at the top of the page Default page tabs at the top of the page

The page tabs are displayed at the top of the article to the right below of the site logo. These tabs allow you to perform actions or view pages that are related to the current article. The available default actions include: viewing, editing, and discussing the current article. The specific tabs displayed on your pages depend on whether or not you are logged into the wiki and whether you have sysop (administrator) privileges on the wiki. On special pages only the namespace tab is displayed.

Default for all users

• namespace (article, help, special page, template, user page etc.)
• discussion
• edit (may be view source if anonymous editing is enabled, the page is in the MediaWiki namespace or the page is protected)
• history

Extra tabs for logged in users

• move
• watch

User Links

Default user links at the top right of the page

The user links are displayed at the top far right of the article. These tabs allow the logged-in user to view and edit their user page and wiki preferences. Additionally, the user links allow the user to quickly access their contributions to the wiki and logout.

For anonymous users the user links is replaced by a link to the wiki login page or, if enabled, a link to your ip address and your ip address's talk page.

My talk

This links to your discussion page, where people can leave messages for you.

My watchlist

A list of all pages that you are watching. Pages can be added to this list by clicking 'watch' at the top of the page.

My contributions

A list of all contributions you have made to the Whiplash Connection.

Searching

Put your keyword in the searchbox.

• Go - (or Enter on keyboard) will take you automatically to the article, if it exists.
• Search - will search the text of all pages.

If you clicked 'search', or you clicked 'go' and the page you were looking for did not exist, you will be presented with a list of articles that matched your search criteria (or a message that no matches were found).

Starting a new page

Using Wikilinks

MediaWiki makes it very easy to link wiki pages using a standard syntax (see Links). If you (or anyone else) creates a link to an article that doesn't exist yet, the link will be coloured red, like this.

Clicking a red link, will take you to the edit page for the new article. Simply type your text, click save and the new page will be created.

Once the page has been created, the link will change from red to blue (purple for pages you've visited) indicating that the article now exists.

Using the URL

You can use the wiki's URL for creating a new page. The URL to an article of the wiki is usually something like this:

• http://www.my-wiki.org/index.php/ARTICLE    or
• http://www.my-wiki.org/wiki/ARTICLE

If you replace ARTICLE with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet. Clicking the "edit" page tab at the top of the page will take you to the edit page for that article, where you can create the new page by typing your text, and clicking submit.

From the search page

If you search for a page that doesn't exist (using the search box and 'go' button on the left of the page) then you will be provided with a link to create the new page. (Note that this technique doesn't work if you use the 'search' button).

Using the Inputbox extension

Template:Admin tip If the Inputbox extension is available on the wiki you can start a new page by typing in your article's name and clicking the "create article" button, as in the example below.

Formatting

Template:PD Help Page You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equation marks which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two single quotes like ''this''

Text formatting markup

preformatted text is done with
a space at the 
beginning of the line

Paragraphs

Mediawiki ignores normal line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can also start a newline with the HTML tag <br />.

HTML

Some HTML-Tags are allowed in MediaWiki, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>.