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Help:Contents
The help pages are designed so that users can keep this wiki going and up to date after Tanner Smith leaves for college.
For a more detailed reference, see Wikipedia's guide on editing or Mediawiki's User Manual. The Magic Word Article is quite interesting.
Contents
General Links
Modifying RoboWiki
Style
These are a few things to keep in mind when editing a page.
External Links
All external links that should be included in a article or can be looked at for further for reference should be placed under a heading called "External Links" and placed in a list. For example:
==External Links== *[http://www.google.com Google]
Point of View
The point of view of articles on this wiki should be in the form of the team. Ergo, there is no "I", "me", or any such references that refer to the author unless it is on their user page/comment.
Any references to the team should be made using "the team" or "the Robo Lions", never "we".
Regional Names
Any and all regional competitions should be called by their full name and never abbreviated to just the name of the regional.
For example, the following is not allowed
The team totally kicked bot at Palmetto.
The next example is allowed.
The team totally kicked bot at the Palmetto Regional.
This is to ensure there is no confusion and to make the wiki easier for non-Robo Lions or new members to read and comprehend.
Page Premises
Just to keep things organized and consistent, page beginnings have been created to provide a basis for a general page. They are not templates and should be used as such. They are a place of beginning a new article.
To see all available page premises, click here.
Semantic MedaWiki
This MediaWiki uses a semantic extension called "Semantic MediaWiki" (a.k.a SMW). Basically this allows you to define a phrase or number as a fact and you can later query the wiki from a page and the information will be returned to you. This is primarily used for members, executives, mentors, sponsors, years, and robots.
To learn how to use it, check out the manual on the SMW site.
To see all available properties that are currently available, see Special:Properties.
Citations
To add citations, simple add this text to the statement:
<ref>This is what I am using as my source</ref>
And then add this section to the bottom of the page (or where ever you wish to show your references list):
<references/>
For more information, see the cite extension manual.
Statistics
For statistics, check this category.
