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[[File:help-wiki-07-user-talk.png|thumb|none|900px|Example message to Admin by writing to their user talk page. Don't forget to use the "Add topic" function so you can add a Subject line. In this example, I forgot to sign off my comment with <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code> (see next section).]] | [[File:help-wiki-07-user-talk.png|thumb|none|900px|Example message to Admin by writing to their user talk page. Don't forget to use the "Add topic" function so you can add a Subject line. In this example, I forgot to sign off my comment with <code><nowiki>~~~~</nowiki></code> (see next section).]] | ||
=== | === Details on talk page usage === | ||
When you click on "Add section" in a discussion page, it asks you for a header and the content, but what when you want to reply to someone, or add a further comment to the discussion section you created? | When you click on "Add section" in a discussion page, it asks you for a header and the content, but what when you want to reply to someone, or add a further comment to the discussion section you created? | ||
To insert a comment in a discussion page, you write what you want to write somewhere (usually at the end of the section you want to comment on), then put four tilde symbols (~) at the end, which makes the | To insert a comment in a discussion page, you write what you want to write somewhere (usually at the end of the section you want to comment on), then put four tilde symbols (~) at the end, which makes the wiki software sign off that text with your name. (It's best practice to always sign off comments with the four tilde symbols, also when creating a new talk topic.) | ||
The following example shows how a new talk topic is created. | |||
[[File:help-wiki-08-signing-off.png|thumb|none|900px|Adding a talk topic and having the software sign it with my username.]] | |||
After saving that, it will look like this: | |||
[[File:help-wiki-09-signed.png|thumb|none|900px|Note how the signature and timestamp were added automatically. It also contains a quick link to the user's talk page.]] | |||
When replying to someone's comment on a talk page, the response is customarily prepended with a colon (:) sign, which makes the wiki software represent the reply with some indentation. | |||
[[File:help-wiki-10-reply.png|thumb|none|900px|To reply to someone, simply edit the page, and add your comment below theirs, with one colon (:) more than their comment. (A single colon if theirs had none.)]] | |||
After saving, that will look like this: | |||
[[File:help-wiki-11-replied.png|thumb|none|900px|The colon symbol is turned into one level of indentation.]] | |||
For reference, here's an archived discussion page from Wikipedia that you can look at to get a feeling for how a real discussion between multiple people might look: | For reference, here's an archived discussion page from Wikipedia that you can look at to get a feeling for how a real discussion between multiple people might look: | ||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Radical_feminism/Archive_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Radical_feminism/Archive_6 | ||
For more details on how to edit talk pages, see the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Talk_pages MediaWiki help page about talk pages]. | |||
== Other concerns == | == Other concerns == | ||