Help:Converting Pages

Please help us convert pages from the old wiki.

Here are the steps to follow:

• Create a link to the new article on this wiki by editing a portal page, or the article that you want to be the parent of the new article. You create a link this way:

 [[Article Name|Article Description]] -> Article Description

• Please name your pages in TitleCase, with underscores between words, for instance, "Tutorial_Linux_Getting_Started". You can not put spaces in page names.
• 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 ]]
• 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