Adding New Towns Or New Data

Adding new data to pages that already exist

This is easy! Near the top left of the page will be a button called "Edit page". Click on that. You will be asked for a password. Get the password by emailing the Early American SIG web master (currently joshualevy at yahoo dot com).

You will now be looking at a simple editor, so make your changes and click "Preview" or "Save" when you are done. A history of all the changes you make will be kept, so if you mess up, don't worry. Even if you save your mistake, we can undo it later.

Adding New Towns

Start by editing the main page, as described above. All you need to do is add a link to the new page you plan to write. (Do this even though the page does not yet exist. The text you want to add is something like this:

* [UsaCaSanJose|CA San Jose]

Replace "UsaCaSanJose" with the name of your town, starting with "Usa" and the state's two letter prefix. Please capitalize Usa, your state's prefix, and each word in your city's name. Replace "CA" with your state's prefix (this time in all caps), and "San Jose" with your city's name.

Note that the text before the "|" symbol is the internal name for the new web page, while the text after it is the visible (human readable) name for the page.

Save that work, and when you view the page, you will see your new link has a strange underline under it. This means there is no web page there (yet). No problem, click on it anyway, and you will be editing your new page (which starts out empty, of course).

Editing a Wiki

Here are a few quick rules for editing this wiki. Once you know these rules, you will be amazed at how much you can do:

1. If you want to put in text (regular words), just type it in.

2. If you want to put in a big header, put a exclamation mark (!) as the first letter on a line, and the header text on the rest of the line. Starting a line with two exclamation marks will create a slightly smaller header; three is smaller still, and so on.

3. To create a bullet list, put a ansterixs (*) as the first letter on a line.

4. If you know HTML, you can put that in at any point.

You can see examples of most of these techniques on this very page! Just click on the "edit page" button to see how this page is formatted.

Sections in a Web Page

Feel free to organize your page any way you think is best. In general, I try to organize resources based on the type of resource. For specific resources and data sets, putting in the years covered is often very helpful.

Here are some sections that I've found useful:

• Jewish History
• Religious Institutions
• Current Clubs and Organizations

Adding Comments

TBD