Difference between revisions of "Author Help"

Create New Page
	From a New Link
	From a New Search
	From an URL

Revision as of 16:27, 16 January 2019

Dharmawiki article structure has many features that are user friendly both for the Authors as well as the Readers. This page introduces a new Author to different Articles structured in the lines of Wikipedia and have the following features.

Well inter-linked, or cross-referenced. Highlighted text in blue color is seen in an article, it means there is a link to a relevant article being built with further in-depth information. Holding the mouse over the link will often show to where the link will lead.
Hierarchy of articles is built through the Category structure. This helps the Authors and Readers to easily navigate through the site and add relevant pages.
Articles have a page layout which is simple, highly organized and powerful in design. Page aspects include
1. Table of contents
2. Sections (lead section) and Subsections following the lead section or Introduction
3. Reference Links
4. Images
5. Tables
6. Flowcharts
7. Formatting tools (such as bullet points and numbered lists)
8. Templates (such as To Be Edited) to point an author to the further requirements of the article
9. Use of Devanagari characters from the Special Characters list.
At the end of most articles, there is a relevant References section where the references cited in the article are automatically placed as a built-in feature of the software. Links to external websites and pages, reference material, and organized categories of knowledge which can be searched and traversed in a loose hierarchy for more information are listed. Links within the articles may be given to other repositories such as Shodhganga theses, Dictionaries such as Shabdakalpadruma and Vachaspatyam.
Creating Articles is elaborated here in the further sections (More information is available in the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.)
New authors are required to familiarize themselves with the software guidelines for editing or formatting as follows:
1. Knowing how to begin editing
2. Adding text
3. Making existing text bold
4. Making existing text italicized
5. Creating a new subsection, with correct subheading level and section content
6. Adding a citation
7. Editing a citation
8. Adding an internal wikilink
9. Removing an internal wikilink
10. Adding an external link to the External Links section
11. Finalizing/saving edits

Create New Page

A New Page can be created in one of the following ways

 From a New Link
 From a New Search
 From an URL

From a New link

Some pages contain links to other pages that don't exist yet.

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To start one of these new pages, you can click on its link. They are typically created in preparation for creating a new page.

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A new page link with a misspelled name need not be created if that duplicates content found under another name page.

If there isn't already a new page link to the page you want to create, you can always add such a link yourself. You would add the new page link typically in a related page, an index page or your own user page.