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=Overview=
==Reading==
 
* [[Help:Navigation|Navigation]]
 
* [[Help:Searching|Searching]]
 
* [[Help:Tracking changes|Tracking changes]]
 
* [[Help:Watchlist|Watchlist]]
 
  
==Editing==
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Welcome to the Ancestry.com Wiki. This page links to a variety of articles that will help you understand the ins and outs of using the wiki, from simply finding and reading useful articles to making changes to a page, following changes made to an article, creating new pages, and interacting with the wiki community.
* [[Help:Editing pages|Editing pages]]
 
* [[Help:Starting a new page|Starting a new page]]
 
* [[Help:Formatting|Formatting]]
 
* [[Help:Links|Links]]
 
* [[Help:User page|User pages]]
 
* [[Help:Talk pages|Talk pages]]
 
* [[Help:Signatures|Signatures]]
 
  
===Advanced editing===
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The Ancestry.com Wiki is easy to use but, depending on what you want to do, some features do require a bit of learning. For example, if you want to add a section to an article that includes a table, you'll need to learn something about how to design and display tables.  The Ancestry.com Wiki uses a special series of symbols (called a markup language) that controls things like formatting and tables in articles. You can learn more about this markup language below in the 'Contributing to the Ancestry.com Wiki' section.
* [[Help:Images|Images]]
 
* [[Help:Tables|Tables]]
 
* [[Help:Categories|Categories]]
 
* [[Help:Subpages|Subpages]]
 
* [[Help:Managing files|Managing files]]
 
* [[Help:Moving a page|Moving (renaming) a page]]
 
* [[Help:Redirects|Redirects]]
 
* [[Help:Deleting a page|Deleting a page]]
 
* [[Help:Protected pages|Protected pages]]
 
  
* [[Help:Templates|Templates]]
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The Ancestry.com Wiki is built using MediaWiki, the same platform used by Wikipedia, the FamilySearch Wiki, and WeRelate, so if you have used any of those great resources, your knowledge should transfer perfectly. In any case, the following articles are here to help you master the Ancestry.com Wiki.
* [[Help:Variables|Variables]]
 
* [[Help:Namespaces|Namespaces]]
 
  
* [[Help:Special pages|Special pages]]
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This help page will continue to grow, so keep your eye on it. If you have a question to which you find no answer here, please ask it on the Discussion page for this page and we will try to answer it as soon as we can.
* [[Help:External searches|External searches]]
 
  
* [[Help:Bots|Bots]]
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=Contributing to the Wiki=
  
===Personal customization===
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==Basic Editing==
* [[Help:Preferences|Preferences]]
 
* [[Help:Skins|Skins]]
 
  
==Wiki administration==
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*[[Help:Editing pages|Editing an article]]
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*[[Help:Formatting|Formatting text in articles]]
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*[[Help:Starting a new page|Starting a new article]]
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*[[Help:Links|Adding links to an article]]
  
* [[Help:Sysops and permissions|Sysops and permissions]]
 
  
The following features require extra permissions that are not normally granted to all wiki users.
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==Following Articles==
  
* [[Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protecting and unprotecting pages]]
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*[[Help:Watchlist|Keeping track of interesting articles]]
* [[Help:Sysop deleting and undeleting|Sysop deleting and undeleting]]
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*[[Help:Tracking changes|Tracking changes to articles]]
* [[Help:Patrolled edits|Patrolled edits]]
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*[[Help:Recent changes|Viewing recent changes across the wiki]]
* [[Help:Blocking users|Blocking users]]
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*[[Help:Talk pages|Using the Discussion pages]]
* [[Help:Range blocks|Range IP blocks]]
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*[[Help:Signatures|Signing comments on Discussion pages]]
* [[Help:Assigning permissions|Assigning permissions]]
 
  
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==Advanced Editing==
[[Category:Help| ]]
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*[[Help:Managing files|Uploading an image or other media]]
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*[[Help:Images|Adding an image to an article]]
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*[[Help:Tables|Adding tables to an article]]
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*[[Help:Moving a page|Moving/renaming a page]]
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*[[Help:Categories|Adding an article to a category]]
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*[[Help:Redirects|Creating redirect pages]]
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*[[Help:Templates|Using page templates]]
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*[[Help:Deleting a page|Learning about deleting pages]]
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[[Category:Help]]

Latest revision as of 01:59, 23 February 2012

Overview

Welcome to the Ancestry.com Wiki. This page links to a variety of articles that will help you understand the ins and outs of using the wiki, from simply finding and reading useful articles to making changes to a page, following changes made to an article, creating new pages, and interacting with the wiki community.

The Ancestry.com Wiki is easy to use but, depending on what you want to do, some features do require a bit of learning. For example, if you want to add a section to an article that includes a table, you'll need to learn something about how to design and display tables. The Ancestry.com Wiki uses a special series of symbols (called a markup language) that controls things like formatting and tables in articles. You can learn more about this markup language below in the 'Contributing to the Ancestry.com Wiki' section.

The Ancestry.com Wiki is built using MediaWiki, the same platform used by Wikipedia, the FamilySearch Wiki, and WeRelate, so if you have used any of those great resources, your knowledge should transfer perfectly. In any case, the following articles are here to help you master the Ancestry.com Wiki.

This help page will continue to grow, so keep your eye on it. If you have a question to which you find no answer here, please ask it on the Discussion page for this page and we will try to answer it as soon as we can.

Contributing to the Wiki

Basic Editing


Following Articles

Advanced Editing