Help:How To Write in Wiki/Main Page



How to write in wiki on the main page? If you ever looked at the main page and thought about changing something and continue with trying to make an edit, you get on page with some complicated wiki-language. How does that work? What is the purpose of it? And how can I make a change there? Well, those are all very relevant questions. It looks really complicated, but actually it is not. So let's explain it a bit:

First of all
The Main Page is not like any other page on the YWAM Knowledge Base. The page itself is first of all under the supervision of the main administrators. This is to protect it against vandalism.

This doesn't mean you can't change anything. One of the easiest ways is leave comments about the main page. As administrators we know how to deal with it all and can make changes for you. When you leave a comment we will know what you would like to see different on the main page. But there are more options.

You can also use the templates. The main page is special in the way that it mostly consists of templates. Templates are concepts or layouts that are made to make a certain construction. And we use also a lot of templates within a template within a template. That sounds difficult and sometimes it can be even really confusing to us. But it does have certain benefits.

It helps:
 * 1) To protect against vandalism.
 * 2) The wikitext to be more organised.
 * 3) To create a cycle (example feat. pictures & videos).
 * 4) To give you access to change something.

Help Guide for the Main Page
To help you even more we give you a guide to every element of the main page. To make changes in the layout, first check out our other How To Write in Wiki pages to know the basics or keep them at least close by to get to know what to do.


 * 1) The Heading.
 * 2) Left Column (Layout, Admin only).
 * A. The News Template.
 * B. The Questions Template.
 * C. The Community Template.
 * D. The Languages Template.
 * E. The New Page Template.
 * 1) Right Column (Layout, Admin only).
 * F. The KB Tour Template.
 * G. The Start Template.
 * H. Featured Video Template.
 * I. Featured Picture Template.
 * 1) Bottom text (Admin only).