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| + | * [[Theatres of War|Official British Army codes for Theatres of War used from 1916 onwards]] | ||
| + | * [[Researching World War One records]] | ||
| + | * [[About private letters, diaries and memoirs]] | ||
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== Creating a new page == | == Creating a new page == | ||
These tips are taken from [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page MediaWiki's Help:Starting a new page]. | These tips are taken from [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page MediaWiki's Help:Starting a new page]. | ||
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=== Adding references and citations === | === Adding references and citations === | ||
The [http://tools.wmflabs.org/makeref/ MakeRef] site is useful for formatting references for use on these pages. | The [http://tools.wmflabs.org/makeref/ MakeRef] site is useful for formatting references for use on these pages. | ||
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Revision as of 08:40, 14 November 2014
Contents
Understanding military terminology, records and research
- Official British Army codes for Theatres of War used from 1916 onwards
- Researching World War One records
- About private letters, diaries and memoirs
Creating a new page
These tips are taken from MediaWiki's Help:Starting a new page.
This site assumes you're creating a new page about a battalion and pre-populates the pages with some headers and description.
Content on a page
You can add categories to pages to help make them more findable. Categories so far include:
- [[Category:British_Infantry_Battalions]]
- [[Category:Canadian_Infantry_Battalions]]
- [[Category:British_Army]]
- [[Category:Canadian_Army]]
- [[Category:Australian_Army]]
- [[Category:Indian_Army]]
- [[Category:New_Zealand_Army]]
- [[Category:Italian_Army]]
- [[Category:Infantry_Battalions]]
- [[Category:Mounted_Battalions]] (includes cavalry)
- [[Category:Machine_Gun_Battalions]]
- [[Category:Battalions_with_official_diaries]]
- [[Category:Battalions_with_personal_narratives]]
- [[Category:Battalions_without_official_diaries]]
- [[Category:Battalions_without_personal_narratives]]
Starting a new page from a search
A quick way to start a new page is to type its title in the search box, and start the search. If there are no matches, it will say (for example) 'There were no results matching the query.
Create the page "Royal Dublin Fusiliers" on this wiki!'
Starting a new page from a link
Some pages contain links to other pages that don't exist yet. These are called "new page links". To start one of these new pages, you can click on its link.
Links to non-existing pages are common. They are typically created in preparation for creating a new page, and/or to encourage other people to do so. Some people may see the presence of new page links on a page as a sign that the page is broken. However most wikis are intended to be constantly added to, so in this sense a new page link is only an indication that a particular page is needed.
Links to non-existent pages are created the same way as links to already existing pages. For example, adding New page name in the wiki editor will create a new page link to the page "New page name".
If there isn't already a new page link to the page you want to create, you can always add such a link yourself. You would add the new page link typically in a related page, an index page or your own user page.
Adding references and citations
The MakeRef site is useful for formatting references for use on these pages.
