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:''See also: [[Documentation:EditingGuidelines]]''
Please follow these guidelines when editing this wiki.<br />
There will be more guidelines later.

== The basics ==
:''Note: You can practice editing at the [[Sandbox|Sandbox page]] whenever you like.''

This wiki uses something called "wikimarkup", a way to include plain text on a page and modify how it looks. This is similar to both Wikipedia's markup and <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr>.<br />
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Commands to modify plain text include:
* "tags" around words, for example <code><nowiki><big>example text</big></nowiki></code> to display <big>example text</big>
* "templates" (common snippets of formatting or often-used text), for example <nowiki>{{VLC}}</nowiki> to display {{VLC}}
* a particular way of linking to other pages and websites on the Internet
* a particular way of making things bold or italic
* a particular way of inserting images

Another important feature is the page layout:
* making lists
* making tables
* using page headings to create sections-->

If you have a minute, learn the basics of editing: a [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet one-page summary] and [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing an extensive manual] are available at the English Wikipedia.<br />
If you want to "dive right in", find the ''Edit Toolbar'' (directly above the edit box) and use the buttons and the dropdown help for assistance.

== Common conventions and best practices ==
* To show code as pre-formatted text, insert a blank space at the beginning of each line
* To end a line, either:
** use two new lines;
** or use the HTML entity <code><nowiki><br /></nowiki></code>

=== Calling attention to pages ===
It's understood that a wiki will eventually become outdated, and needs to stay up-to-date. You can help by:
* Adding {{tl|Dead link}} after a dead link
* Adding {{tl|Stub}} at the bottom of a page to show that it needs work
* Adding {{tl|Check}} after something you think might be incorrect
* Adding {{tl|Outdated}} to the bottom of out-of-date pages (this is a new feature)

=== Useful things ===
* {{tl|VLC}} displays and links to {{VLC}}
* {{tl|VLC icon}} is a shorthand way to produce the image {{VLC icon}}
* {{tl|VLC:latest version}} will show the latest version of VLC
* {{tl|Font colour}}

== See also ==
* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing MediaWiki exhaustive reference guide]
* See the [[List of templates|Documented List of Templates]].
* See [[Special:PrefixIndex/Template:|all templates on {{SERVERNAME}}]]