Help editing

This documentary wikipedia is a user-generated, up-to-date online resource based on the free MediaWiki software. It is directly connected to the online project reelisor, a European network for documentary professionals. Everybody interested and/or qualified in the doc film business is welcome to contribute to this knowledge base.

Contents 1 Quick start 1.1 Some editing tips 1.2 Starting a new page 2 Formatting 3 Guidelines 3.1 Categories

Quick start

You can edit any page where you can see an edit link or which has a red title. You don't have to be logged in. The changes you make will show on the page as soon as you save it.

1. Click edit at the top of the page you want to edit
2. An "edit box" will open, type your new sentences or corrections
3. Click save page to save your writing before moving on

Some editing tips

• Use show preview to check your edit before saving. Remember to save your preview before moving on.
• If you are logged in, you can mark an edit as minor by checking the This is a minor edit box. This lets other editors know your edit is very small.
• Pages that start with "User:" are personal pages. It's considered polite to ask before doing major edits to other people's pages.
• Red titles are empty pages that need editors. If you think you are the right one, do not hesitate to fill those pages!
• To practice editing, use the sandbox on WikiMedia.

Starting a new page

You don't have to limit your writings to already existing pages. You can also start a new page on a new topic related to the documentary film business. But please note, you should hold the rights on those texts!

Read more about starting new pages in the MediaWiki Handbook.

You want to write about something, but you are unsure which topic you would like to start with? On the page Wanted Articles you find a list of articles which need to be edited as they are already linked to other pages. It's really simple: Just click on the red title and fill the page with knowledge.

Formatting

The wiki markup is the syntax system you can use to format the "reel wiki". You don't have to be a programmer or know HTML, php, CSS. There is an easy guide here with all you need to know on links and URLs, character formatting, text formatting, tables and templates: Formatting Guide

Please note: The image upload is disabled on the "reel wiki" for the forseeable future.

Guidelines

The bigger the wiki gets, the more important are website standards and quality assurance. For example to write more than one line on a topic or to use full sentences. Empty pages are very annoying for all of us. We should try to avoid them, but in the first weeks and months, this will be really difficult. Please be patient with all of us and give us time to let the wiki grow.

Categories

Categories help us to get more structure in those masses of articles. It is possible to assign an article to one or even more categories and/or sub-categories. But having too many categories is rather counterproductive.

Please always check the already existing categories before creating a new one: Special:Categories

A page can be put in a category by adding a category tag to the page (by convention, at the end of the page), e.g.:

[[Category:Category name]]

You can create a new category simply by adding a new category name.