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[[Saintapedia]] uses the MediaWiki software, which is the same software that drives [[Wikipedia]]. There are two options for editing a Wiki page:
# Use the [[visual editor]], also know as a "rich-text editor" or {{W|article=What You See Is What You Get}}.   To use the visual editor, click the "Edit" link within the top navigation bar. You can use the visual editor just as you would edit in Microsoft Word or other word processing software. 
# Use a combination of [[Enhanced editor]] and [[wikitext]]  by clicking on "Edit source" link within the top navigation bar. 
There are instructions below about how to use Wikitext.
# The section below called [[#Basic Wiki Skills|Basic Wiki Skills]] contains the most common wikitext for the vast majority of editing.  This section contains information on how to:
#* make sections
#* make bullets and numbered lists
#* make links to other pages in Saintapedia
#* make links to websites beyond Saintapedia
# The remaining sections contain links and information on cheat sheets in other locations, like Wikipedia. Please also see [[Help:Formatting]].

==Basic Wikitext Skills==
[[Sections]] allow you to separate your article into logical blocks.  They also are the foundation for the table of contents, which is automatically displayed after the fourth section is added.

Sections are added by putting a section title between two or more equal signs.  Like this:<br>
<nowiki>== This is a section heading ==</nowiki> -- (Two equal signs on either side)<br> 
<nowiki>=== This is a sub-section === </nowiki>-- (Three equal signs on either side)<br>  
Capitalization of section headings should follow sentence case.

===Bullets===
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To make a bulleted list, you simply use an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the line

==== Wikitext ====
<nowiki>* This is a bullet</nowiki>

<nowiki>* This is a second bullet</nowiki><br /><nowiki>** Indented bullet</nowiki>

==== What you get ====
* This is a bullet
* This is a second bullet
** Indented bullet

===Numbered lists===
To make a numbered list, use a pound sign, #, at the beginning of the line
# Numbered list item
# Numbered list item
## Indented numbered list

==Links==
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There are two types of links:
* Internal links create links to other articles in Saintapedia. The common practice is to make key nouns in your articles into links.  This is called [[wikify]]ing your article.
* External links allow you to create a link from Saintapedia to a website beyond Saintapedia.  Common style is only put external links on a page that are directly about the topic.  External links about other topics should be put on a Saintapedia page about that topic.

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===Internal Links (Wikify)===
'''Wikify''' refers to adding "internal links" to articles, which helps integrate the article into the whole of [[Saintapedia]]; structuring an article so that all articles have a relatively common appearance for ease of navigation and editing; and placing applicable [[Help:Templates|templates]] and [[Help:Categories|categories]] on articles.

Making internal links is one of the single most important types of edits you can make in Saintapedia and they are exceptionally easy. You can do it manually or using the edit bar:
* To use the edit bar, first highlight the word(s) you want to be a link. Then, click the chain link icon above the edit bar. This allows you to decide what article you want to link to and what text you want to display. 
* You can also simply put two square brackets around the word(s), e.g. <nowiki>[[Saints]]</nowiki>. To change the displayed text, include a vertical bar | followed by the text to be displayed, e.g. <nowiki>[[Saintsl|the Saints]]</nowiki> becomes [[Forrestal|the Saints]], linking to the page "Staints."
 
Example internal links: 
* '''<big>More needed</big>'''
* <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Manhattan Project]]</nowiki> will add a direct link to the article in Wikipedia and becomes [[Wikipedia:Manhattan Project]].  (See [[Interwiki links]]).
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===External Links===
To make an [https://Saintapedia.energy.gov/wiki/Help:Link#External_links external link], select the text you would like to hyperlink, then click the chain link icon. Enter the target URL and edit the text you wish to display, if desired. Select the toggle for "To an external web page." You may also type the URL followed by the text to be displayed inside of single square brackets.

Example:
* [https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html<nowiki> Vatican website] becomes </nowiki>[https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html Vatican website]

==Strategies==
===Bad page names===
{{Main|Saintapedia:Naming convention}}
* '''<big>Examples needed</big>'''

===The Four Primary Tools of linking topics===
* [[Redirects]]
* [[Wikification]]
* [[Categories]]
* [[Navbox]]es

===Tools to aid in linking===
* [[Template:Breadcrumbs]] - explanation [[Breadcrumbs]]
* {{tl|W}} to add a link to wikipedia.  
* {{tl|main}} or {{tl|learn}} links
* '''[[Wikify]]''', [https://Saintapedia.energy.gov/wiki/Help:Cheat_sheet#Internal_Links_.28Wikify.29 wikify], wikify

==Best External Cheat Sheets==
{{Banner|1=The best simple and clean '''cheat sheet''' is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet on Wikipedia].}}

There are a number of other Cheat sheets and tutorials available including:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples Wikitext Examples on Wikipedia]
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide on for the MediaWiki software]
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing Help with Editing MediaWiki]
* Wikipedia's page on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_perfect_article Wikipedia's guide for writing a great wiki page].

==Related==
* [[Help:Article history]] - learn about how every version of an article is always available. 
* [[Links]] - examples of internal and external links
* [[:File:Qwertykeyboard.png]] - an image of a Qwerty keyboard without any annotation. 
* {{W|Help:Wiki markup}}
* [[Help:Formatting]]

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