Help:Editing

ℹ️Editing
By :	Aristotle Sabouni

1Liner  :  Basics of Editing Articles on this website.

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Summary  :  This site is wikipedia-esque (with SMW, and a lot of custom templates). This explains how articles are structure, and how to edit/add articles so they will show what you want.

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Basics

There are multiple templates, items or data elements that help define an article in this CMS

• Create an article/item by picking a from a Form & add in all the fields and data (including the content)
• An articles structure is generally:
  • a start-template {{+Item|...}}
  • Body Text
  • an end-template{{-Item|...}}
• The majority of articles are an "Form:Item", and there are multiple subclasses of articles, or attributes you can add. Like if you add Review information, an Item is a Review. If you add a "Choice" item, it can be displayed in other pages as a "Choice" that optionally links back to this article. And so on.
• But there are a few dedicated types that we can get into more later, like:
  • a "Form:Quote" - is a quote by someone
  • a "Form:Meme" - is a Meme
  • etc.

Let's break those down more.

Start Template

🗒️ NOTE
All templates are wrapped in {{ }} tags to mark them, and they will have multiple parameters, separated by usually a linebreak for easier reading and always a pipe character | then a variable name and equals value.

The start template Template:+Item is going to have a lot of parameters for the article: {{+Item | Type = Article, Quote, Review, Humor, Slide, Term, Meme | Image = File (220px thumbnail)(440px for slide) | 1Line = 1 line description for bullet views or small views | Description = 200 character short desciption (for longer views or inclusions

It's easier to edit them with a Form, than directly. But either works.

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