Adding to the Wiki

The E30 Wiki lives and grows on your contributions. If you've got something you think other's should know, here's how to share the knowledge.

Creating an Account and Logging in

Before you can make new pages or edit the existing ones, you'll need to sign up for an account. Because of the huge number of spambots trawling the web, you'll need to ask your nearest friendly SysOp to make an account for you. Contact Grrrmachine, Steve or Skipunda either on the Wiki or the Zone with your desired username and password, and one of them will set you up with the power to create and edit content on the Wiki.

Once you've got your hands on your account details, you can log in.

Starting a New Page

While there isn't a special button to click to make a new page, it's still very easy to do.

In the address bar of your browser, you'll see the address for this page. It should be this:

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/index.php/Adding_to_the_Wiki

Delete Adding_to_the_Wiki and type what you want your page to be called. For example, if I wanted to write a new article on changing wheels I might want the title to be "Changing Wheels". I would navigate to:

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/index.php/Changing_Wheels

Think carefully what you want to call the page, because once it's made, you can't change the name.

Things to note:

1. Underscores become spaces
2. The page names are currently case sensitive so Changing Wheels is different to changing wheels.
3. Capitalisation. Please use sensible capitalisation, not CHANGING WHEELS, changing wheels or perhaps ChanGinG WHEels - you get the idea.
4. Pages can only be deleted by an wiki admin - please contact Hoshy or another zone team member for deletion requests.

Uploading images and files

Once logged in you will see the toolbox in the left panel has an Upload file link. You can use this to upload images for you pages.

To use an image in a page just use

[[Image:Filename.jpg]]

Please note filenames are also case sensitive.

Formatting

This page details the guidelines for how to edit pages on the zone wiki.

A great list of simple formatting options is on the Wikipedia site here: Wikipedia Cheatsheet

For pages that are incomplete please add the stub template by placing the following text at the start of your article:

{{stub}}

This will ensure that it's easy for users to find and update articles that need updating.

Tables

Tables can be somewhat tricky. Good information can also be found on the wikipedia site: Tables Help

Tables on this site should be created like the below:

Please note the class="wikitable" attribute.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|+'''Table Title'''
|-
|'''First Column Header'''
|'''Second Column Header'''
|'''Third Column Header'''
|-
|We
|Love
|E30s
|-
|Old
|Skool
|Cool
|}

This should look like:

Table Title

First Column Header	Second Column Header	Third Column Header
We	Love	E30s
Old	Skool	Cool