Getting Started

Introduction

Creating a User Account

Visitors must create a user account in order to edit pages.

Go to Special:CreateAccount to create your account.

It is recommended to use your real name and list your contact information, industry affiliation, University, etc in your user profile.

Editing your preferences in your user account does NOT display this personal information to the site. Users should create and edit their User:Username page by clicking their hyperlinked username in the top right corner. Try this template below for a sample user profile:

{{Infobox | abovecolor = | color = | fontcolor = | abovefontcolor = | headerfontcolor = | tablecolor = | nocat = | title = | status = | image = | image_caption = | image_width = | name = | pronoun = | languages = | location = | country = | timezone = | occupation = | employer = | education = | primaryschool = | intschool = | highschool = | college = | university = | classes = | hobbies = | aliases = | movies = | shows = | books = | music = | interests = | website = | blog = | email = | facebook = | instagram = | linkedin = | twitter = | youtube = | flickr = | subpages = | joined_date = | first_edit = | autoconfirmed = | confirmed = | extended_confirmed = | account_creator = | autopatrolled = | file_mover = | mass_message_sender = | new_page_reviewer = | page_mover = | reviewer = | rollbacker = | template_editor = | admin = | edit_filter_manager = | bureaucrat = | check_user = | overseer = | edit_count = | permissions = | signature = | userboxes =

Passwords should be 10 characters long. This is the default MediaWiki setting.

Email authentication is required to graduate to User status and contribute to the wiki.

Creating a New Page

Formatting

A list of formatting options is listed in the table below. Please note these links take you away from FSWiki.

Link	Content	Notes
mediawikiwiki:Help:Formatting	Text Formatting
mediawikiwiki:Help:Links	Types of Links
mediawikiwiki:Help:Tables	Tables	Its recommended to use https://tools.wmflabs.org/excel2wiki/index.php to transfer excel tables to mediawiki
mediawikiwiki:Help:Images	Image embedding