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RixWiki is a focused encyclopedia that is open to collaborative contributions by people from around the world. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the RixWiki community.
RixWiki uses the same software used for the Wikipedia although it is not a Wikipedia sister project. Additional help for the Mediawiki software can be found at the MediaWiki User's Guide.
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See also: RixWiki's How to for a full list.
Using RixWiki
- How to explore RixWiki
- How to search for an article
- How to use talk pages
- How to use the Recent Changes page
- How to use the Related Changes page
- How to use the Go button
- How to log in
- How to set preferences (Meta-Wikimedia version)
- How to contact us
Modifying a RixWiki page
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page, including markup details. You can experiment with editing pages in the sandbox.
- How to start a new page
- How to use categories
- How to use images (and the image use policy)
- How to use redirect pages
- How to use tables
- How to use templates (and the available templates)
- How to upload files to RixWiki
- How to add boilerplate text
- How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
- How to rename (move) a page
- How to delete pages/images/categories
- How to link together RixWiki articles in different languages
- How to link to sister projects
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
- How to edit with an external editor
- How to edit mathematical formulas using TeX
- How to produce graphics for pages
- How to protect/unprotect pages (sysops only)
Information and resources for contributors
- Frequently-asked questions
- Policies and guidelines for contributors
- Glossary of common RixWiki terms
- Style and How-to Directory
- How to write a great article
- Public domain resources
- Manual of style
- WikiProjects, writing and style guidelines for specific disciplines.
- Topical index, a collection of links to pages that are useful to "doing things" in RixWiki.
Getting in touch
- Contact us
- General Complaints for things in general (that is, a problem on more than one page) that could be fixed or made better.
- Help desk for newcomers with questions about RixWiki or editing.
- Reference desk, request an article or information. See also Requested articles.
RixWiki-specific content and links to other help pages
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The help namespace contains copies of help pages from Meta, with RixWiki specific templates (this page is an exception). The wikitext of each is intended to be an exact copy of that of the master page on Meta, while the rendered page is different due to the templates. Each help page contains a template with the same name with extra prefix "Ph" (Project-specific help template), e.g Template:Ph:Namespace, with RixWiki- and subject-specific content. Typically it should at least contain links to pages in the RixWiki namespace about the same subject, and a copy of the interlanguage links in those pages. Please help creating those links, as well as links from those pages to the help page on RixWiki and the master page on Meta. Some existing pages in the RixWiki namespace may no longer be needed and be redirected to the page in the Help namespace. The RixWiki-specific content can then be copied to the template of that page. edit this RixWiki and subject-specific template |
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