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Codex Help - For Everyone

This is the right page if you are looking for help with the different aspects of Codex, and the underlying tool, Mediawiki. MediaWiki is an open source wiki engine licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is used by many websites, including this one. On these help pages, you will find both a user and an administrator guide for using MediaWiki.

Please read the Help For Readers Section for more help if you are a visitor to Codex, and want to use it to the fullest!

If you are an editor, please read the Codex Guidelines to understand how things work around here, and also read the Help For Editors section for help with editing pages.

The MediaWiki User's Guide is a general-purpose guide designed to help you with the technical and practical details. Some of the useful help pages are linked below:

Help For Readers

Navigating

  1. Searching
  2. What links here
  3. Random page
  4. Special pages
  5. Printable version

Tracking changes

  1. Recent changes
  2. Enhanced recent changes
  3. Related changes
  4. Watching pages
  5. Page history
  6. Diff
  7. User contributions

Accounts

  1. Logging in
  2. Preferences
  3. User style

Help For Editors

Codex Specific

  1. Codex Guidelines -- Must read for editors!
  2. List of all available template (messages)
  3. Available Standard Codex CSS Styles

Editing overview

Starting a new page

  1. Page name

Images and other uploaded files

  1. Image description page

Special characters

Formatting

  1. Table

Referencing

  1. Link
  2. Piped link
  3. Interwiki linking
  4. Variable
  5. URL

Organizing

  1. Sections
  2. Templates
  3. Category
  4. Redirect
  5. Renaming (moving) a page
  6. Namespace

Saving effort (not having to write something, or copy and paste)

  1. Automatic conversion of wikitext
  2. Using predefined text blocks in articles (subst)
  3. Editing toolbar

HTML in wikitext

Fixing mistakes and vandalism

  1. Reverting a page to an earlier version

Communicating

  1. Edit summary
  2. Talk page
  3. Edit conflict
  4. Minor edit

Testing

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