Create

How to create new pages

To create a new page, you must first edit an existing page and add a link to the new page. The text you specify in the link will be the title of the new page (see the page titles for more detail).

For example, try to insert a line such as

   Check out [[my cool page]].

in the test page. Then click on the link my cool page and a page creation form appears. This method has the advantage that the new page will be referenced from an existing page. Otherwise the new page would be inaccessible (except from the site map and recent changes) and therefore not very useful. Of course, you can always make the new page inaccessible by removing the link from the pages that reference it. The Wiki netiquette (see social protocols) says that you shouldn't do that unless the page has become useless.

The page creation form is the same as the page edition form:

description - a short sentence that describes the page. The description appears together with the page's title in the site map, the history and the recent changes.
category - a word classifying the page. It can be selected from the menu of existing categories (which includes the empty category) or a new category can be created by typing in its name. See the page about categories for more detail.
contents - the contents of the page, to be edited according to the Wiki format.
author - the author of the page, also known as its creator. The creator appears in the site map and at the bottom of the page. See the page on authors for more details.
accents - a checkbox to specify whether to convert the accents in the text fields. See the page on accents for more details.

The buttons below the form are:

Save to create the new version of the page,
Preview to see a preview of the formatted page before saving it,
Reset to reset the form to an empty form, and
Cancel to go back to the previous page (according to your browser).

Advanced

The page creation form has a Page type menu next to the "Cancel" button. This menu sets the page type. Normally it should be set to "Wiki", which corresponds to standard wiki pages. The other types are used to upload files (e.g. images) into the server. Note that if you select an entry in this menu, the page creation form is replaced by a new one, loosing any data you may have already entered in the other fields. Please refer to the upload page for additional information on how to create non-wiki pages.

Version 3, Mon 08 Feb 1999 14:03:48 [mbl] - created Tue 24 Nov 1998 08:42:33 [mbl]