Help:Contents
Please note that much of the documentation on this page links to pages on "Wikipedia". The software on SikhiWiki is the same as Wikipedia so all instructions would apply on SikhiWiki. Wikipedia is large Encyclopedia on all topics whereas SikhiWiki is very focused on Sikh related topics.
Using SikhiWiki
- Get a personal tour by watching the Sikhiwiki Online Tutorials
- How to search for an article
- How to use talk pages
- How to use the Recent Changes page
- How to use the Related Changes page
- How to set preferences (Meta-Wikimedia version)
Modifying a SikhiWiki page
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page, including markup details. First-timers can experiment with editing pages in the sandbox.
- How to start a new page
- How to format a page
- How to add images to pages
- How to upload files to SikhiWiki
- Picture tutorial
- How to use redirect pages
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
- How to add boilerplate text for readers
- How to use tables and convert HTML table tags into their wiki equivalents
- Importing HTML - HTML to Wikimarkup
- How to use categories
- How to rename (move) a page
- How to delete pages/images/categories
- How to link together SikhiWiki articles in different languages
- How to edit with an external editor
- How to produce graphics for pages
- How to protect/unprotect pages(sysops only)
- How to use templates
Tutorials for using SikhiWiki
There is quite a bit of documentation on how to use a wiki and showing you how everything works. Start with the first link to get the basics and then you can delve deeper as you learn more.
- Get a personal tour by watching the Sikhiwiki Online Tutorials
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
Typing in Punjabi and Gurmukhi
Learn how to setup your computer to type Punjabi/Gurmukhi - Once you do this you can enter text in Gurmukhi also. This is usefull if you are wanting to include Gurbani Quotes or other bani along with English. An online OnScreen Punjabi Gurmukhi/Shahmukhi Keyboard link is also included for typing without any kind of Setup.
Official Guidelines
- 1 Verifiability: The threshold for inclusion of an article in SikhiWiki is verifiability, not truth. "Verifiable" in this context means that any reader must be able to check that material added to SikhiWiki has already been published by a reliable source.
- 2. No original research:Sikhiwiki is not the place for original research. Citing sources and avoiding original research are inextricably linked: the only way to demonstrate that you are not doing original research is to cite reliable, verifiable and easily checkable sources which provide information that is directly related to the topic of the article and that what you have quoted directly adheres to what those sources say.
- 3 Neutral Point of View (NPOV) is one of SikhiWiki:Five principal pillars which states that all SikhiWiki articles must be written from a neutral point of view, that is, they must represent all significant views fairly and without bias.
