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Help Pages

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• Help category
  • Help:Feeds (RSS/Atom): getting update notifications from Issuepedia
  • Help:Sandbox for testing and experimenting
  • project:Contact: contact information for Issuepedia
  • Help:Admin: help information for site administrators
• Guidelines and Policies:
  • project:User Guide: things we encourage all users to do
  • project:References: reference sites
  • project:Arguing: terminology and how it works
    • project:Arguing/guidelines: a detailed list of guidelines
  • project:Debaticons: using icons to indicate the components of a debate
  • project:Policies: arbitrary stuff that should be consistent
• project:About: general information about Issuepedia

Indexes

• project:essays: index to on-site opinion pieces
• project:references: index of standard reference works and associated templates
• project:archive: archived pages

Tools

• Issuepedia bug tracker at The Virtual Bazaar

Editing

• Images (and galleries)
• Magic Words: insert bits of generated information
• ParserFunctions: do stuff with existing text

References

• To add footnote references within article text: <ref name="key">full footnote goes here</ref>
  • The "name" attribute is only necessary if you want to refer to the same footnote more than once.
  • The key must not be purely numeric.
• To display the list of footnotes: <references />
• More complete instructions are on the MediaWiki reference site.

This page is in need of updating. Need some basic wiki-editing instructions here.

Templates

didn't I already create a page or section about templates somewhere? -W.

Ways of displaying and formatting content:

• Template:Dbrk: show double brackets around first argument, like a wikipage link (but don't actually link) - [[like this]]

Various conditions under which the complete text of an external article might be posted in Issuepedia:

• Template:Authored: reprinted with Issuepedia-specific permission
• Template:Copyrt: reprinted without permission
• Template:Fiskreprint: reprinted without permission specifically for fisking (maybe this is redundant?)
  • Template:Fisking-incomplete: use this when you've posted the article but haven't finished fisking yet
• Template:Licensed: reprinted under the terms of a specific license

News Sources

Places to find current news, especially items not generally covered by the mainstream press

• AlterNet
• San Francisco Bay Independent Media Center
• the mainstream media

Outdated

These articles should be rewritten, updated, or scrapped:

• Article Types: some of the main types of articles, and where to find examples
• Contributors: actual people who have contributed substantially to Issuepedia