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:''Jump straight to [[#Formatting the wiki text|Formatting the wiki text]] if you are in a hurry''.
Writing '''your first article''' could be a great way to share your experiences and perhaps also help some of us other FlightGear users.  Hopefully your first wiki article will be only one of many contributions to the FlightGear project.
Writing '''your first article''' could be a great way to share your experiences and perhaps also help some of us other FlightGear users.  Hopefully your first wiki article will be only one of many contributions to the FlightGear project.


As you probably already are aware of the FlightGear wiki is a collaborative written documentation related to FlightGear, the free and open source flight simulator.  As FlightGear itself the wiki is licensed under the [[GPL|GNU GPL version 2]] license.
As you probably already are aware of the FlightGear wiki is a collaborative written documentation related to FlightGear, the free and open source flight simulator.  As FlightGear itself the wiki is licensed under the [[GPL|GNU GPL version 2]] license.
== Wiki Markup Basics ==
See: http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=22796


== Contributing to the FlightGear Wiki ==
== Contributing to the FlightGear Wiki ==
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{{main article|Help:Formatting}}
{{main article|Help:Formatting}}


If you have just used Open Office, then it is still easy to get started, as you can begin using the buttons above the edit box to format your text.  The wiki markup is rather easy to remember though.  A few examples of what can be done is shown below:
If you have just used Open Office, then it is still easy to get started, as you can begin using the buttons above the edit box to format your text.  The wiki markup is rather easy to remember though.  A few simple examples are shown below:
 
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
! Description
! width="30%" | What you type
! width="30%" | What you get
|-
| Italic and bold text.
|
<nowiki>''Italic'' and '''bold''' text.</nowiki>
| ''Italic'' and '''bold''' text.
|-
| Headings
|
<nowiki>== Level 2 ==</nowiki>
<nowiki>=== Level 3 ===</nowiki>
<nowiki>==== Level 4 ====</nowiki>
|
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
|-
| Links to wiki pages. The first character is case insensitive.
|
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is a [[list of abbreviations]].
 
A [[Help:Templates|template]] can be very practical.</pre>
| Here is a [[list of abbreviations]].
 
A [[Help:Templates|template]] can be very practical.
|-
| Unordered lists
|
<nowiki>* Item
* Item</nowiki>
|
* Item
* Item
|-
| Ordered lists
|
<nowiki># Item
# Item</nowiki>
|
# Item
# Item
|-
| Definition lists
|
<nowiki>; Term
: Definition</nowiki>
|
; Term
: Definition
|-
| Indentation is usually the way comments from different users are separated on discussion pages.
|
<nowiki>No indentation
:Indentation
::Indentation</nowiki>
|
No indentation
:Indentation
::Indentation
|-
| Tables
|
<nowiki>{| class="wikitable"
! Cell one !! Cell two
|-
| Cell three || Cell four
|}</nowiki>
|
{| class="wikitable"
! Cell one !! Cell two
|-
| Cell three || Cell four
|}
|-
| Nasal and XML highlighting.
|
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><syntaxhighlight lang="nasal" enclose="div">
# Snippet
</syntaxhighlight>
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml" enclose="div">
<!-- Snippet -->
</syntaxhighlight></pre>
| <syntaxhighlight lang="nasal" enclose="div">
# Snippet
</syntaxhighlight>
 
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml" enclose="div">
<!-- Snippet -->
</syntaxhighlight>
|-
| Images and thumbnail images
|
<nowiki>[[File:Canvasready.png|100px]]
 
[[File:Fg wings large.png|thumb|150px|Logo]]</nowiki>
|
[[File:Canvasready.png|100px]]
 
[[File:Fg wings large.png|thumb|150px|Logo]]
|-
| Progress templates
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<nowiki>{{done}}
 
{{pending}}
 
{{not done}}
 
{{progressbar|50}}
</nowiki>
|
{{done}}
 
{{pending}}


<nowiki>* The most common markup is very easy, here also demonstrating unordered and ordered lists:
{{not done}}
*# ''Italic text'' is done within two apostrophes
*# '''Bold text''' is done within three apostrophes
*# '''''Bold italic text''''' is done with five apostrophes
*#* Thus '''Bold and ''bold italic''''' text can be mixed
: Indented text is done with one or more colon at the beginning of each indented paragraph</nowiki>


* The most common markup is very easy, here also demonstrating unordered and ordered lists:
{{progressbar|50}}
*# ''Italic text'' is done within two apostrophes
|-
*# '''Bold text''' is done within three apostrophes
| Embedded YouTube videos, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWEyRVGJks0
*# '''''Bold italic text''''' is done with five apostrophes
|
*#* Thus '''Bold and ''bold italic''''' text can be mixed
<nowiki>{{#ev:youtube|yWEyRVGJks0}}</nowiki>
: Indented text is done with one or more colon at the beginning of each indented paragraph
| ''This example not shown''
|}


== Linking your article to other articles ==
== Linking your article to other articles ==
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