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{{Wiki help navbar}}
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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.
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: Documentation about the official aircraft
: Documentation about the official aircraft


If you do not yet feel fully ready to start a new article there are also categories of various articles that could need some tender loving care such as: [[:Category:Stubs|very short articles (stubs)]], [[:Category:Articles considered for deletion|articles considered for deletion]] and [[:Category:Cleanup|articles needing cleanup]].  Helping out with those could be a good way to familiarize yourself with the wiki as well as the wiki markup.
Other interesting pages include things like [[Real Life Experience]], [[Linux software audio mixing with FlightGear]], [[Current events]], or [[Presentation Recipe]]!
 
=== Starting small by maintaining an existing article ===
If you do not yet feel fully ready to start a whole new article there are also [[:Category:Wiki maintenance|categories of various pages that could need maintenance]] and some tender loving care such as:
 
; Stubs
: Very short articles that would probably be more useful if they were longer
 
; Articles needing cleanup
: Articles that could need some restructuring or maybe even a rewrite.
 
; Articles needing updating
: Articles covering topics that has since changed
 
; Image files needing a description
: For example aircraft screenshots without description, thus making them difficult to search for.  


Other interesting pages include things like [[Real Life Experience]], [[Linux software audio mixing with FlightGear]], [[Current events]], or [[Presentation Recipe]]!
Helping out with those could be a good way to familiarize yourself with the wiki as well as the wiki markup.


== Creating a new article ==
== Creating a new article ==
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=== Search and create ===
=== Search and create ===
In essence: Search first, then create.
In essence: Search first, ''then'' create.


To create a new article, please start by using the search function.  This way you will find if there already is an article with that name or if there is one with a very similar name.  If there is no article with that name you will be presented with the option to create that page.  Click on the blue link prompting you to create new page to go to an edit page.
To create a new article, please start by using the search function.  This way you will find if there already is an article with that name or if there is one with a very similar name.  If there is no article with that name you will be presented with the option to create that page.  Click on the blue link prompting you to create new page to go to an edit page.