Guide for Editing the Wiki

While the goal is to be low barrier to entry, a short code of best practice is probably worth setting out:

1. Only make edits if you are confident that the information you are inputting is correct. If in doubt, check with someone or a source.
2. Where possible link to the relevant primary source, with link text that makes it clear exactly what the source is.
3. This wiki is for information and guide on how things work in the area, not for clinical guidance.
4. Monty Python references welcome, dick jokes less so.
5. Please be gentle with the wiki - it is running on the hardware equivalent of a 2 week old ham sandwich currently, and can't deal with lots of video.

Every registrar should have an account that allows for editing. If the site isn't letting you, email me.

Editing the wiki is ultimately pretty straightforward - click the pencil icon on the right, and this will take you to the editing interface. Here you simply type text into the box and then use tags to format the text/add images/links ect., with a similar interface to Wikipedia. There is a bar at the top of the editing interface that helps with add the required tags. Before you launch your creation into the ether it is a good idea an “edit summary” to say what changes you have made, and to click the button at the bottom left to preview the page and make sure everything looks right.

Adding new pages is very straightforward - just search for the name of the page you want to create. The wiki should bring you up a page saying “this page doesn't exist, do you want to create it?”. Just click the red link and start creating. Loading multimedia is a little harder - this needs to be uploaded to the server first before you are able to place this on a page.

If you are having major issues with editing, feel free to just add or modify the text as needed, then email me (or someone else who knows their way round the system) to get the text formatted. If you want to mess around with editing to learn how everything works and what you can do without messing up live pages, try the playground.