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Contents 1 da Vinci Concept 2 Basics 3 How-Tos 4 Legal Documents 5 Key Concepts 6 Still Lost?

da Vinci Concept

1. da Vinci Concept:Our Community About the people writing on the da Vinci Concept website.
2. Category:da Vinci Concept A set of white papers and discussions describing da Vinci Concept
3. da Vinci Concept:Statutes Community laws.
4. da Vinci Concept#Support_and_Donations How to help out with webhosting and maintenance costs.

Basics

1. What is a wiki anyway?
2. Editing Wiki Pages: everything you need to know to get started with writing and posting art.
3. How to log in, set your user preferences, and customize your display with CSS [1]
4. A glossary of relevant and technical definitions.
5. Some tips on avoiding the loss of writing while composing on a computer.
6. How to keep your writing safe and more: Help:Tips:Security
7. Key Concepts to get started with.
8. Etiquette
9. Some guidelines to follow.

How-Tos

• Please note that the developers of Mediawiki, the content management software we are using, have extensive help documents. Additionally, the Wikipedia project and its associates also have very solid help documentation. Therefore, please look there for any documentation and help that you need and cannot find on our help pages.

• The Wikipedia Cheatsheet with the basic wiki syntax (aka wikitext) for formatting and other actions.
• Editing Wiki Pages
• MediaWiki User's Guide
• Use HTML in Wiki Pages
• Make some tables
• Post pictures
• Write mathematical proofs. (LaTeX mathematical markup language is supported. Just use: <math>LaTex expressions</math>.)
• Use templates to tag your work with relevant markers and signposts.

Legal Documents

1. Copyright Notice Read the Discussion on this article for an explanation of the da Vinci Concept limited copyright.
2. The Copyright Warning, a plain-English statement.

Key Concepts

A few key concepts that will help you when using the wiki system to post, track, and review material:

• Page creation is free-form. To create a new page or document, write a link to it by editing a related document.
• This is a public forum. Your work is world-viewable.
• Use the 'History' tab to view the record of your changes to a document. All changes and document history are stored. All changes are reversable.
• Use the 'Discussion' tabs to post review and comments on posted material.
• Many media file formats are supported; image files, audio files, and even video.
• You may 'edit' the work of others, but you should assume that you need to ask permission first. </UL>
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  Still Lost?

  • If your search still does not answer a questions, [the admin] staff.
  • Propose new website features, report bugs, suggest some writing or art that needs to be done, all at the forums.