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 through 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 a Wiki admin - please contact Grrrmachine or another SysOp for deletion requests.

Uploading images and files

You can upload a file here. This link can be found at the bottom of every Wiki page in the grey tool bar.

To use an image in a page just use

[[Image:Filename.jpg]]

Please note filenames are also case sensitive.

Formatting

It's very easy to organise a Wiki page. The most important thing is to know how to use "=" signs.

If you want to make a new chapter or heading inside your page, just put the chapter heading in between two "equals" signs, like this: =Engines=.

Then, if you want a sub-heading, use two equals signs, like this: ==Four-cylinder Engines==

As soon as you put four headings like this into your article, the Wiki will automatically make a Contents box at the top of your page. That way, readers will be able to jump quickly to the important information in your article. If you're writing a How To... guide, this is really very useful.

For more of these simple formatting options, take a look at the list on Wikipedia: 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