Quick Start
For a short crib sheet for formatting text, adding links etc, see Help:Editing.
A quick guide to adding information to the FIBIWiki.
Creating an account
To edit the FIBIwiki you need to quickly create a free account. This will let you keep track of your own changes and have more control generally. Click on create account at the top right of the page.
Editing
Have a play and try adding some content. It's really easy, all you do is click on the edit tab at the top of the article you want to edit, or click on one of the red coloured links on any of the pages (this means that article doesn't exist yet). Then just type what you want to appear on the web page. You can practice editing using the FIBIwiki:Sandbox.
Before you click 'Save page' you can 'preview' how your changes will appear. This helps to eliminate unnecessary mistakes. You can also leave a brief edit summary to explain what changes you have made and can check the 'minor edit' box if applicable (if you have only made minor changes that do not affect content, such as changing spelling or formatting).
Headings
There is some specialist syntax for formatting the text, for example to create the following 3rd level heading
Regiments
you simply type ===Regiments===.
Links
Internal links
To create a link to another article you just surround the word with [[ ]]. For example to link to the Indian Navy page you type [[Indian Navy]].
External links
To create a link to an external website, use single square brackets around the full link. At the end of the link you can include a space and then some text that will appear as the link's name. So, typing [http://en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia Homepage] will produce English Wikipedia Homepage.
Lists
To create a bulleted list just precede every item by an asterisk. For example type:
*first
*second
*third
and it will appear on the web page as:
- first
- second
- third
See, I told you it was easy.
See also
For more detailed help see:
- Citing sources This sets out how to add footnotes.
- Help:Editing pages
- Help:Formatting
- Help:Links
- Help:Images
- Help:Tables
