Editing Instructions (section)

=Basics=

==Create User account==
An avatar? You can tell a lot about a thing from its avatar.

Click 'create account' in the top right.

==Create User Page==
When you create your account, you are automatically provided two pages. The first is your user page, which is sort of like your profile, or your plan, or just your user page, if you want to keep it simple. This is a good place to put your contact info, a bio, what have you. This page doesn't have anything on it to begin with, so you'll want to navigate to that page by searching 'user:YOURNAME' and then creating the page. This will also create what's your talk page, which is located at 'user_talk:YOURNAME'. This is like your wall, I guess, a place for people to say things to you.

==Create a new article==
Search the name of the article you would like to create. If no such article exists, a link will appear to create a new page. Now, articles get pretty lonely when they've got no one to talk to. Sometimes it's cool for a page to be all hermit-cavey, but most of the time you're going to want to at least link '''in''' to the page you've created. Otherwise, how will anybody ever find your creation?

==Edit an existing article==
Navigate to the article you would like to edit, and click 'edit', just to the left of the search field. Wikipedia's editing primer is full of useful techniques, in terms of both form and content. It is located here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page Wikipedia: How to Edit @ pedia]

Here is a useful tutorial that introduces the essentials: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial Wikipedia:Tutorial]

four tildes '~' in a row will insert your signature and timestamp, like so

[[User:Isaac|Isaac]] 17:15, 22 December 2010 (CST)