Jurapedia:About

This page contains a guide on how to use and edit Jurapedia.

Register
Jurapedia requires users to be registered in order to edit pages or create new contents. Click on the “Create account” link in the upper right of the homepage and follow the instruction. You will be asked to answer a Jura-related question, that needs to be answered by using capital letter correctly. Then you will need to choose an username and a password, and an email address. A confirmation link will be sent to the email address you chose in the registration process. Open your email, click on the confirmation link, and you are in. It’s just like any other website.

First steps
In order to create a page, just write the title in the designed box in the homepage and then press “Create page”. Don’t forget to spell it correctly and use capitals letter where required.

You can write in blank space and save the text at any point by clicking the Save button below the blank space. Taking a look at the preview of the article – namely, how it is going to look like – before saving the page can be a good practice. To do so, click on the Preview button next to the Save button. If everything is alright in your new page, click on “Save page” (and a summary of what you have done if you want to), otherwise keep editing it and save it when you have finished.

To edit an existing page, click on the button “Edit” at the top of it. To search for an existing page, either search for its title in the search box, or browse the categories in home page. Once again, if your edits are consistent, you can either preview the page before saving it or just saving it.

Bold and italics
The most commonly used wiki tags are bold and italics. Bolding and italicizing are done by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes ('):

It can also be used the first (bold) and the second (italic) button of the editor toolbar (see next section).

Editor toolbars
This editor has one toolbar with buttons that help with the use of wiki tags. For instance, if you want to type a text in bold, instead of manually typing the  tags, you can just press the Bold button and then type the text in bold directly.

Headings and subheadings
Headings and subheadings are a way to organize an article. If an article discusses several topics and dedicates more than a couple of paragraphs to each, you can make the article more readable by inserting a heading for each topic — that is, creating a section for each topic.

You can also create sections within sections (i.e., subsections) by using subheadings:

This is a subheading
You create headings surrounding the heading text with several '=' wiki tags. The more '=' symbols in the wiki tag, the more nested the heading is:

{| style="border:none; text-align:left; padding:0.3em;"  == Isle of Jura == 
 * style="background:#E6F2FF; padding:0.3em; text-align:center;"|You type
 * width="50%" style="background:#E6F2FF; padding:0.3em; text-align:center;"|You get
 * width="50%" style="background:#E6F2FF; padding:0.3em; text-align:center;"|You get

Isle of Jura
 === Straw hats === 



Straw hats

 * }

If an article has at least four headings, a table of contents is automatically generated.

How to link
To make a link to another Wikipedia page (called a wiki link), put it in double square brackets, like this:
 *  Jura Hotel 

which the reader will see, after you save your edit, as this: Jura Hotel

If you want to link to an article, but display some other text for the link, you can do so by adding the pipe "|" divider (SHIFT + BACKSLASH on English-layout and other keyboards) followed by the alternative name. For example:
 *  The hotel  will display as The hotel and will link to the article.

If you want the display text of the link to appear in italics or bold, nest the double square brackets for the link within the multiple apostrophes that delimit the italicized or bold text, like this:
 *  Jura Hotel 

which will display as this: Jura Hotel

Categories
You can also put the article in a category with others in a related topic. Near the bottom of the article, type .

Talk pages
Every page, including users' ones, is provided with a talk pages allowing to discuss about the entry or whatever. To access it, click on "Discuss this page" at the bottom.

Indenting
Indenting can improve the layout of a discussion considerably, making it much easier to read. A standard practice is to indent your reply one level deeper than the person you are replying to.

There are several ways of indenting in Wikipedia:

Plain indentations
The simplest way of indenting is to place a colon (:) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you put, the further indented the text will be. A newline (pressing Enter or Return) marks the end of the indented paragraph.

For example:
 * This is aligned all the way to the left.</tt>
 *  : This is indented slightly.</tt>
 *  :: This is indented more.</tt>

is shown as:
 * This is aligned all the way to the left.
 * This is indented slightly.
 * This is indented more.

Bullet points
You can also indent using bullets, which are also used for lists. To insert a bullet (when your edit is saved), type an asterisk (*</tt>). Similar to indentation, more asterisks in front of a paragraph means more indentation.

A brief example:
 *  * First list item</tt>
 *  * Second list item</tt>
 *  ** Sub-list item under second</tt>
 *  * Third list item</tt>

Which is shown as:
 * First list item
 * Second list item
 * Sub-list item under second
 * Third list item

Numbered items
You can also create numbered lists. For this, use the number sign or "octothorpe" (#</tt>). This is usually used for polls and voting, and otherwise is fairly rare. Again, you can affect the indent of the number by the number of #</tt>s you use.

Example:
 *  # First item</tt>
 *  # Second item</tt>
 *  ## Sub-item under second item</tt>
 *  # Third item</tt>

Shows up as:
 * First item
 * Second item
 * Sub-item under second item
 * Third item