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Help for Beginners

  • Adding Content - adding and editing content on M3P: an introduction to getting started

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Help Topics

  • Stubs - how to create a page about a subject that can later be populated with further details.
  • References - understanding and using references when adding and/or editing content

M3P Quickies

A series of PDF files for quick and easy step-by-step guide on how to start creating and editing pages on M3P.

M3P Quickies 1:How to register in 4 easy Steps - pdf file.

M3P Quickies 2:Creating a Page from Scratch - pdf file

M3P Quickies 3:M3P Cheatsheet #1 - pdf file showing how to format text, linking a name to an M3P page or an external website, eg. Facebook. and how to upload a picture in M3P.

...more Quickies on the way!...

Frequently Asked Questions

Cleanup

  • What is a cleanup tag?
This is for pages that are no longer stubs but don't conform to our (as yet to be written) desired style quality. My first inclusion of the tag (i.e. curly brackets around the word cleanup) is on the page Walter Vella. --Toni Sant (talk) 11:37, 16 October 2010 (UTC)


Sort order

  • How do I make Joe Borg appear under B in an alphabetical category list, rather than J?
By default, a page is sorted under the first letter of its full name including the namespace. Also, the MediaWiki software that runs this site groups special characters separately from their regular version, so pages starting by Ġ, Ż, Ċ, etc. will be listed under separate headings, instead of under heading G, Z, C.
It is possible to set a default sort key which is different from the page name by using the magic word {{DEFAULTSORT}} thus:
{{DEFAULTSORT:Borg, Joe}}
You simply need to ensure that you enter the appropriate name you want to sort instead of Joe Borg.


Edit Summary

  • What is an edit summary?
An edit summary is a brief explanation of an edit to any page. We don't have further details on this specifically for M3P, but you can view the detailed explanation on Wikipedia, which is excellent.





More help and FAQs coming soon!

Please feel free to ask for help on specific tasks using the discussion/talk page.




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