Help:Contents

Wikipedia provides excellent documentation about how such a wiki works.


 * See Help:Editing on Wikipedia for a long description how to edit here.
 * See Help:Wiki_markup on Wikipedia for a long description of how the wiki syntax works.
 * See Wikipedia:Cheatsheet for a quick summary of the wiki syntax.

Short guide
A short guide, for those not familiar with wikitext.

Text and paragraphs
Normal text is just written. Nothing special there.

A single newline is not enough. You have to make two (a single whitespace, a paragraph) to go to a new paragraph. You can only enter paragraphs here.

Example:

Headings
Headings are done like this: etc.

Links
Links to pages inside this wiki are quite easy. Just wrap  and   around the page title you want to link to.

Example:

Text formatting
Bold, italic.

Creating a new page
There are various ways to start a new page that's not a category:
 * You can go to http://www.dissociative-identity-disorder.net/wiki/ pagename (replace pagename with the proper page name)
 * You can go to the list of wanted pages
 * You can click a red link anywhere in a page

Using references
See also the full explanation on Wikipedia. Note: some of what's described there may not work here.

The easiest way to add references is like in this example: This is some statement.

This is another statement.

Using the Cite templates
There is a gadget that, combined with a few templates, makes inserting proper citations a lot easier. At the place you want to insert the  tag, you can instead head over to the 'Cite' button above the text field and use the 'Templates' dropdown to select one of the (currently) four types of citations.

Depending on the type of citation, there are a lot fields that can be filled in. In most cases, many can be automatically filled in, and you certainly don't have to fill in all of them. For example, for (scientific) journal articles, you can copy the 'DOI' and click the Autofill button next to it. Automatically filling in works similar for PubMed articles (which don't always have a DOI) and books (via the ISBN).

Note, that the Autofill function does not always work, and may not always give correct results. Check those to make sure you're not inserting false information.

Some benefits of using the templates over directly inserting citations:
 * Citations can be put in another form later on. For example, it's possible to add or change links.
 * All citations are in the same form by using the same template.
 * It is easier to change citations later on, for example, when a bot is made (or copied from somewhere else) that fixes often-used citations. Or maybe it's possible to make a bot that queries an online database (more reliable than the Autofill one) to mass-fix citations. There are all kinds of options that will get easier when citations become machine-readable.

Page numbers
The Cite extension used here does not support page numbers (yet), but there is still a way to do it:

Examples:

They can be inserted just after a reference, for example:

Some statement.

This would roughly look like this:[1]15-16 It would indicate that the exact source of the claim is in the range of page 15-16 in a reference called 'something' (whatever that may be exactly).

Giving exact page numbers this way improves verifiability (it is much easier to check a few pages instead of a whole book) while not making the references list very long (with a lot duplicate entries all referring to different pages in the same book, for example).