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General Wiki Help

Please see documentation on customizing the interface and the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.

Creating a New Article

To create a new article (that is, add information about a new airport), you will need to start by going to the page that the article will be at, as this will automatically create a blank page. You can do this by filling in the title of your page after the title= portion of the web address in your browser's address bar. For example, if you are currently at the following page:

http://www.spotterswiki.com/index.php?title=San_Diego_International_Airport_%28SAN/KSAN%29

first erase everything after the title=:

http://www.spotterswiki.com/index.php?title=

then fill in the name of the article you wish to create:

http://www.spotterswiki.com/index.php?title=Los Angeles International Airport (LAX/KLAX)

Note that you do not need to include the _ or special % codes for the parenthesis as they will be converted for you.

Once you have created the page, the first thing you should do is use the Newarticle template to fill in the basic structure of a SpottersWiki airport article. The web page will state that there is no text on the page; click the Edit button to bring up the screen to edit that page. Enter the following into the box, then click Save Page:

{{subst:Newarticle}}

Then you can click Edit again and start filling in the article. The Discussion page for the Newarticle template includes further information on using the template, and the Discussion page for the Infobox template covers filling in the information box.