Help:Converting Pages
Revision as of 13:30, 20 July 2009 by Templarian (talk | contribs)
Please help us convert pages from the old wiki.
Here are the steps to follow:
- Create a link to the new article on this wiki by editing a portal page or the article that you want to be the parent of the new article. For example,
[[Article Name|Link Text]]
yields Link Text. - Please name your pages in TitleCase, with underscores between words, for instance, "Tutorial_Linux_Getting_Started". You can not put spaces in page names.
- Click on that link to bring up the edit page. Type a title and save it.
- Note the url of this new page.
- In another window, go to the old page.
- Choose edit.
- Copy all the source off the old page, and paste it into your favorite editor.
- at the top of the old page, type the following line:
[[module Redirect destination="http://www.example.com/base/"]]
- replacing the url with the url of your new page you noted in step 4.
- Go back to your editor.
- Replace all
[[[
with[[
- Replace all
]]]
with]]
- Replace all
**
with'''
- Replace all
//
with''
- Find all lines that start with + or ++ or +++ or ++++
- Edit them so that the line is enclosed in the same number of = signs == This is header 2 == (note that spaces are required.)
- Paste the result into the new-page window in the new wiki
- Save.
- Perform any clean-up editing required. In particular you may need to edit links to other pages.