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Making a new page

There are two ways to make a new page:

  1. As mentioned above, while you're editing the text of an old page, you can just put something in brackets. For example, you would type: [[my page]]. When you save the page you're editing, if the link you included doesn't exist, you will see a question mark after the text. Click on that question mark and you will be taken to a newly-created page that you can edit. Replace "Describe the new page here." with whatever text you want to put on the page!
  2. Type the URL of the new page in the "address" line of your browser and hit return. The URL of the new page will be the text of a link, with the first letter uppercased and spaces replaced by underscores (see Wiki Canonization for more details about this). For example, in the URL above, you would replace

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/How_does_one_edit_a_page
with the new URL
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Name_of_your_new_page
and then hit return.

See also how to start a page.


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