Start a new page

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Start

To start a new Wikigogy page is easy

1. Login (optional but helps you find your stuff and builds your Wikigogy reputation)
2. Now

   • Type a link, [[a page name in double brackets]], into your User page, Save, and follow that new link to edit your new page.
     Link method. Helps you find it next time. Try this first!

   or

   • Change Start a new page in your browser's location bar (http://wikigogy.org/This part) into something else and hit Enter key!
     URL method. Elegant.

   or

   • Type a name for your new page into the search box (top left) and hit return (click Go, not Search); if the page does not exist yet you can then click the red create this page link at the top of your search results.
     Go method.

Not sure? Try the link method, the first one.

Goals and non-goals explains Wikigogy's goals but you are welcome to just start creating pages -- other users will happily help -- plunge ahead!

Welcome! Wikigogy is for and written by English teachers everywhere, World wide!

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.
• subpages -- Example page/Some subpage -- good for handouts or worksheets to print separately as part of a parent lesson page

Delete or move

To move (rename) a page, click the page's move tab (the move tab only shows when you are logged in; look next to the history tab).

Only Admins can delete a page. To ask an Admin to delete a page, (a) type a note on the page's top and say why, or (b) use the {{deletebecause|say why here and sign --~~~~}} template.

Anyone can delete text: click the edit this page tab, delete the text and click Save page. Anyone can also restore text: click the page's history tab, open the page version you want to restore to, click the edit this page tab and click Save page.

For guidance on what is appropriate content for Wikigogy, see goals and non-goals.

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 your 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.

Talk page

Wikigogy pages have corresponding Talk pages for talking about them.

Comments

To add a temporary in-page comment on a page that you are currently collaborating on with someone:

• type your comment within brackets and sign --~~~~,

or

• use the {{comment|type comment here and sign --~~~~}} template.

Please resolve and delete in-page comments within a few days. For longer term comments, use a page's talk page.

See Category:Clean up for a list all pages with a {{comment|here...}} template. In-page comments need to be resolved and then deleted. You can help. Thanks!