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How to edit the Wiki
Wiki Training September 2025
Creating a Page
To create a page, copy/paste this URL into your browser: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/NameOfNewPage
Replace "NameOfNewPage" with the name of your new page. You will be prompted to create a new page. If you want spaces to appear in the name of the page (e.g., your page will be "Brigham Young and Plural Marriage"), then use underscores instead of spaces in the URL (e.g., https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/Brigham_Young_and_Plural_Marriage).
Note that there are two wikis: "answers" and "evidences". If you are adding a page to the "evidences" wiki, you will replace the "answers" with "evidences" in the URL above. Any internal navigation will be only within the wiki you are in.
Editing a Page
Find the page you want to edit, and click "Edit" on the left menu, or anywhere else you see an "edit" link. You often will want to look at other similar pages to see how they format their pages.
Headers
To create a header for a page like "Headers" above, use "=" signs (above uses size 3):
= Header Size 1 =
== Header Size 2 ==
=== Header Size 3 ===
==== Header Size 4 ====
If you want the name of the page (after "answers" in the URL) to appear as a bolded header, use this at the top:
{{Header}}
Formatting Scriptures
{{s||John|7|42}} results in: John 7꞉42
{{s|2|Nephi|3|14-15}} results in: 2 Nephi 3꞉14-15
Quoting
To quote something, use <blockquote>"Put the quote here"<ref>Put the reference here</ref></blockquote>
This is the result:
"Put the quote here"[1]
Linking Outside the Wiki
To make a hyperlink to the outside internet, use this format:
[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bd/joseph-smith-translation?lang=eng JST from the church website]
(Notice the first space separates where the link goes from what is displayed.)
This shows a link like this: JST from the church website
Linking Inside the Wiki
To make a hyperlink to a page within the wiki you are in:
[[Brigham Young|Click here for the awesome Brigham Young Main Page]]
Click here to go to Brigham Young Main Page
So "Brigham Young" is the name of the page (after "answers" in the URL). "Click here to go to Brigham Young Main Page" is what the reader sees to click on.
Parent and Child Pages
The old style was to add all content for a topic on one gigantic page that scrolls forever. Then we discovered you could import the contents of an independent sub-page onto your gigantic page as if it was already together with "transclusion": {{:NewPageName}}
However we are moving away from this for a few reasons.
It's better to have a main page with a summary of the topic, then links to additional sub pages (see "Linking Inside the Wiki"). This will be better for search results, and you can use things like {{Header}}.
Redirecting
If there is an older and a more updated page, it's better to "redirect" to the new one, so the user who finds the old page will be automatically sent to the new page.
To do this, type this at the top of the page: #REDIRECT [[pagename]]
If you see a navigation box like this:
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History |
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Race |
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Critics |
Click on the "V" on the left to edit.
To reference an existing navigation box, type this: {{Navigation:Brigham Young}}
More Formatting Options
This wiki software is called "MediaWiki". If you want to see many more formatting options, go to the MediaWiki website.
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