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| - | In case any of you are new to using mediawiki software to edit wikis, here are a list of tips that can be helpful in trying to deal with all this craziness that's going on.
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| - | ==Set your preferences==
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| - | In the top-right of the screen when you're logged in there's a preferences link (or here: [[Special:Preferences|preferences]]) go there and set things up how you like... Play around, don't be shy, you can't break anything (very badly).
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| - | ===Time zone===
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| - | In the date/time tab, there is a time zone-type area. There's a little button that says, fill in from browser. Viola, now your times make sense.
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| - | [[Image:Time.png|Special:Preferences]]
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| - | ===Signature===
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| - | On talk pages (and on pages such as the [[http://cfcot.wiki-site.com/index.php/Cfcot:Community_Portal]] page
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| - | On the main tab, there's a way to make you signature (when you do the <nowiki>~~~~'s</nowiki> super cool. Click the button next to Raw signatures, then add wiki text to the field right above that (Nickname). The contents of my nickname field are: <nowiki>[[User:Alkaloids|justin]] <sup>[[User talk:Alkaloids|talk]]</sup></nowiki> and that makes a sig that looks like this: [[User:Alkaloids|justin]] <sup>[[User talk:Alkaloids|talk]]</sup> 09:56, 3 August 2006 (CDT)
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| - | ==Edit your user page==
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| - | Let the world know who you are! Or don't, I don't know. Your user page is a good place to try out all the hacks you learned from wikipedia, or just something that came to you in the middle of the night but you're a bit scared to say, add it to the main page just yet.
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| - | ==Send a message==
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| - | Editing someone's talk page (like [[User talk:Alkaloids]]) is how we send messages on the wiki, the next time they log in, they'll have a little message box on the top of their screen saying their talk page is changed. How cool is that? Also, in your [[Special:Preferences|preferences]] page, you can set it to send you an email whenever someone edits your talk page. That's fun too, eh?
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| - | ==Say something at the [[Cfcot:Community portal]]==
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| - | Go ahead, post something up there. Just throw it out, for practice if nothing else. Try using <nowiki>[[links]]</nowiki> to your favorite page on the site or <nowiki>[http://www.jgp.org My favorite journal]</nowiki> to link to [http://www.jgp.org your favorite journal]. It's pretty intuitive, and if you have questions you can:
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| - | * Check out the [[Help:Editing]] page
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| - | * Go to [http://en.wikipedia.org wikipedia] and find a cool looking page, click the edit button at the top and check out that code
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| - | * Contact [[user:Alkaloids|justin]] and ask for other fun tips
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| - | ==Add to this page!==
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| - | You'll all (well for the most part) be new MediaWiki users, so as you figure something out, post it up here. Share the knowledge.
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