Help:Editing

Creating a new page

Creating a new page is alot simpler that it first seems. As the page does not exist there is obviously no link to it, so you have to enter the page address yourself and, the software being clever, the page will be created with nothing in.

E.g:

This page doesn't exist

That link (unless someone has decided to be clever and put stuff in it) will come up as a big text box waiting to be created (note: you must be logged in to edit/create a page).

But what if you don't have a handy link to the page you want to create (as stated earlier that you won't)? Its still very easy. The link above SHOULD come up as

(the &action=edit may be missing if you are not logged in or it already has content - which it shouldn't). The most important part of the link is this part:

/index.php?title=This_page_doesnt_exist

The bold part is the page you are creating/editing so to make a new page all you need to do is change that, so the extension for a page entitled "I am going to the shop" would look like:

/index.php?title=I_am_going_to_the_shop

You may have noticed the underscores (_) instead of spaces, web urls should never contain spaces and, although they will work (by being replaced by %20), they should not be used. The wikimedia software has therefore been designed so underscores replace spaces in page titles, and when you view the page, the title will be displayed correctly (as you can see in the examples).