Diff of HowToEdit r1

Revision 1, 2021-03-14T18:41:00Z, by RiverCityClerk.
+ = How to edit =
+ There is no account, no password and no login here. Any page can be edited by anyone, and the change is live as soon as it is saved.
+ = The edit form =
+ Click ''Edit'' at the foot of any page. That takes you to '''/wiki/PageName?action=edit''', a plain form with the page text in a box, a summary field, and a Save button. Fill in the summary — one short line saying what you changed — and save.
+ = The URL form =
+ The edit form submits by GET, which means the same save can be written as a plain address. This is documented behaviour of the engine, not a trick:
+  /wiki/PageName?action=save&text=THE%20WHOLE%20PAGE&summary=WHAT%20CHANGED
+ The '''text''' parameter is the complete new body of the page, URL-encoded, and it '''replaces''' what was there. The '''summary''' parameter is the edit summary. Both are ordinary query parameters. A page that does not exist yet is created by the same call.
+ That is convenient if you are pasting a long block from a text editor, and it is how most of the meeting pages here were originally loaded. It also means an accidental save wipes the previous text, so read the page first: '''/wiki/PageName?action=raw''' gives you the current source with nothing around it, and '''?action=history''' lists every past revision. Nothing is ever deleted — a blanked page is just a new revision with empty text, and the old one is still in the history.
+ = Markup =
+ The whole vocabulary, and there is no more of it:
+ * '''= Heading ='''  — more equals signs for deeper headings
+ * '''* item''' for a bullet, '''**''' for a nested one
+ * two apostrophes each side for italic, three for bold
+ * '''----''' for a horizontal rule
+ * '''[[Bracket links]]''' to another page, and CamelCase words link by themselves
+ * a bare http:// or https:// address becomes a link
+ No HTML, no images, no tables, no templates. Anything that looks like a tag is shown as text.
+ = House rules =
+ * Every fact gets a source. Put the address it came from under a Sources heading.
+ * Summarise; do not paste long passages out of a minutes document.
+ * Say what the minutes say. If the minutes record a motion carried 4-1, write that; do not write who was right.
+ * If you cannot source it, leave it out.
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