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Contents 1 Start a new page 2 Page name 3 Variation 4 Talk page

[edit] Start a new page

To start a new page:

• Login (optional -- helps you find your work later)
• Type [[Some title for your page]] into another page, such as your User page, Save, and follow the new link to edit your new page.
• Or type a name for your new page into the search box at left and hit return; if the page does not exist yet you can then click the red create this page link at the top of the search results.

Write lesson plans, local info, teaching tips, etc. Goals and non-goals explains Wikigogy's goals. Welcome to just get started -- other users will happily help if you take your first step.

[edit] Page name

Good page, heading and category names are:

• concise -- read well at a glance
• meaningful -- indicate what is on the page
• lowercase second and subsequent words except proper nouns -- we do not use title case for Wikigogy pagenames and page headings. We capitalize only the first character and proper nouns. This makes simpler URLs, reads and types more easily and is part of Wikigogy's look and feel.
• use only letters, numbers and spaces -- punctuation is okay but use it only when it is really appropriate and helpful in page names because it complicates URLs. Avoid question mark (?) in page names.
• avoid plural s -- the page name is part of the URL. Make it easy to type into a browser's location bar. See Plural s in page name.
• sub-pages -- Example page/Some sub-page -- good for handouts or worksheets to print separately as part of a parent lesson page

[edit] Variation

A new page (with a new page name) based on the content of another page is a variation.

• Put a reference to the old page and a note about how your new page will be different in the new page's Talk page (this is required by the by attribution part of our copyleft), and
• Put a reference to the new page in the old page's Talk page to help people find it.
• Maybe put links to each other in a Variations or See also section at the bottom of both pages.

Technically every edit to any page on Wikigogy creates a derivative page; the most recent derivation is always the page that shows at the page's name on Wikigogy. Hopefully edits take the page farther towards where it wants to go. If you want to take a page somewhere new, different from where is seems to be trying to go in its current version, please do so on a new page.

Experimentation and time will reveal strategies for naming related pages. Just do it however seems right to you and share ideas about this on Talk:Page.

If you find a Wikigogy page that you like the idea on but you want to take it in a different direction you can create a new variation page and copy the text and ideas to it to get started.

[edit] Talk page

Wikigogy pages have corresponding Talk pages for talking about them.