Help:Converting Pages

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Please help us convert pages from the old wiki.

Here are the steps to follow:

  • Create a link to the new page on this wiki by editing a portal page, or the page that you want to be the parent of the new page. You create a link this way: Page Description Page names may not have spaces in them. They can have _ or - or be in CamelCase.
  • Click on that link to bring up the edit page. Type a title and save it.
  • Note the url of this new page.
  • In another window, go to the old page.
  • Choose edit.
  • Copy all the source off the old page, and paste it into your favorite editor.
at the top of the old page, type the following line:
[[module Redirect destination="http://www.example.com/base/"]]
replacing the url with the url of your new page you noted in step 3.
  • Go back to your editor.
  • Replace all [[[ with [[
  • Replace all ]]] with ]]
  • Find all lines that start with + or ++ or +++ or ++++
  • Edit them so that the line is enclosed in the same number of = signs == This is header 2 == (note that spaces are required.)
  • Paste the result into the new-page window in the new wiki
  • Save.
  • Perform any clean-up editing required. In particular you may need to edit links to other pages.

A list of existing pages that need to be converted can be found here