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==Step 2 - Create your namepage== | ==Step 2 - Create your namepage== | ||
* Type | * Type your name in the search box | ||
* Click the '''"Add"''' button | * Click the '''"Add"''' button | ||
* If your name page was not found create it by clicking on the link '''"...create an article with this title."''' | * If your name page was not found create it by clicking on the link '''"...create an article with this title."''' | ||
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* Enter the appropriate info for your wiki | * Enter the appropriate info for your wiki | ||
* '''SAVE''' the page | * '''SAVE''' the page | ||
==Step 3 - Upload your Picture== | ==Step 3 - Upload your Picture== | ||
* You must create a user login before you can upload an image | * You must create a user login before you can upload an image |
Revision as of 04:46, 24 February 2006
Step 1 - Copy the Category Tag
- Copy the Category tag below
[[Category:Wiki People]]
Step 2 - Create your namepage
- Type your name in the search box
- Click the "Add" button
- If your name page was not found create it by clicking on the link "...create an article with this title."
- Paste the Category Tag from step 1 into the edit box
- Enter the appropriate info for your wiki
- SAVE the page
Step 3 - Upload your Picture
- You must create a user login before you can upload an image
- Click on the "Upload file" link in the lower left hand toolbox
- Locate your picture file using the browse button
- Upload the file
- Copy the page name of the image page
- Edit your namepage
- Paste the code below into your page and replace "Image:YourPicture.png" with your image pagename
[[Image:YourPicture.jpg|200px|left]]
- SAVE the page
Step 4 - Create your redirects
- Click your login name at the very top of any page. That should put you on User:LoginName (with the name you use to log in, instead of LoginName). Edit that page to be only this (replacing YourName with your actual name from Step 2):
#REDIRECT [[YourName]]
- SAVE the page
- Click on the link for your name (from Step 2).
- Click the Discussion tab (just above the page name), putting you on Talk:YourName.
- Edit that page to be (with the name you use to log in, instead of LoginName):
#REDIRECT [[User talk:LoginName]]
- SAVE the page
Step 5 - Create your signature
- Click on the "Preferences" link at the top of any page.
- Copy this into the "Your nickname (for signatures)" field (replacing YourName and LoginName with your names):
[[YourName]] | <small>[[User talk:LoginName|talk]]</small>
- Make sure there is a check mark in the "Raw signatures (without automatic link)" checkbox.
- Click the Save Preferences button