Creating Pages on Our Wiki
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Our Create A Page provides information about the Why, How, What, and Where of creating pages on our Wiki. |
Why Create a Page
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Address mapping viewable on the page with link out to Google Maps
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Comment facilities for viewer input and discussions.
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Add links to other pages, websites, or other wikis.
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Add photos or files.
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Add any amount of text, within our ground rules.
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Format text with Bold, Italic, headers, horizontal rules, centering, bullets, numbered lists, etc.
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Format pages with tables allowing color coding, left, right, center, etc.
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Complex pages created by "including" multiple pages within a master page.
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A User page to store information about yourself and your working notes. See BuffaloBobWiki
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A FREE Webpage about something of interest to Buffalonians
The Buffalo Wiki is a community edited information sharing resource for the Buffalo Region. There are quite a number of websites that provide indexes and information about our area, but each of them has their own way of presenting information and their limited ideas for user input. Few of them allow the community to edit and contribute to the actual listing. The sites are frequently focused on businesses and have limited data entries.
Most notably, those sites do not allow the entries to integrate easily with other Buffalo information or allow the viewer to create indexing information.
What do you get on our Wiki:
Our Resources:
How to Create a Page
| 1. Click on the Dotted Underline Link of the desired BufWiki linked page name (see Wanted Pages). | ||
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| 2. Type the desired page name (with desired capitalization and punctuation) into the Search Input area above or below. | ||
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Create a page with Search Box: |
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- Business
- Event
- Non Profit
- People
- Place of Worship
- Restaurant
- ShoppingList
- TAG - Business
- TGTag
- Towns
- Year
Templates are pages that help provide a standardized page structure for related topics. Templates are stored as Templates/TemplateName and the wiki automatically lists all the pages found under Templates/ as options when creating a new page.
To use one of these templates for creating a new page, simply select the template within the "Create a new page.." dialog.
Examples
Here are some examples of pages to give you an idea of the diversity and complexity of stuff on our wiki.
| Type of Page | Example Page | Explanation |
| Big Topic | University at Buffalo | a fairly extensive article about a "big" subject with subordinate pages that are "included" within the main page. Also a work-in-progress. |
| Main Topic | Hockey | an example of main topic page with links up to Sports and down to other pages related to the subject, such as the Buffalo Sabres and Western NY Hockey Magazine. |
| Attraction | Medina Railroad Museum | a page about an indoor activity (museum) with links to the Village of Medina. |
| A Term | Buffalonian | a page about a Buffalo related term. |
| Nonprofit | Alcoholics Anonymous | a page about a non-profit organization. |
| Church | Unity Church of Practical Christianity | a spiritual organization (Church) |
Discussion
See our Talk Page for discussion and comments.
