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Welcome to the Global Anabaptist Wikipedia Help Page
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 The Global Anabaptist Wikipedia Help Page has numerous resources, guides and models to help you understand how this wikipedia is structured and how to contribute content. Here you can learn about creating and editing articles, stories and sources through a basic description of the editor and a basic description of wiki-code. You can also learn about our categorization system and how the site is laid out. To understand the basic guidelines and non-technical policies surrounding Anabaptistwiki and to get a general overview of the site, please visit our About Anabaptistwiki page. If this help page or the Mediawiki help page doesn't provide you with the appropriate information, a quick google search will likely answer your questions. |
New Users to the Wiki
Welcome to the Global Anabaptist Wikipedia! We are grateful that you have taken the time to visit our site and engage with the global Anabaptist community. Since you are on the help page you probably have some amount of interest in contributing content or in helping the site. Every time someone edits or writes one article, story or source, it helps global interaction immensely so we thank you once again for contributing your time and energy.
Some places to get started on your journey through the Global Anabaptist Wikipedia:
- To find an article, story or source, you can type what you are looking for in the search bar on the left hand side of the screen to see if we have an article, story or source written on the subject.
- If you are feeling a bit more adventurous or want to go exploring through Anabaptist culture, you can go to the Main Page and start browsing by country or Anabaptist family tree members.
- Yet another way to start navigating your way through the site is to visit the sources page or stories page. On these pages you will be able to work your way down through a category tree to find what you are looking for.
Creating an Article
Creating a Story
Creating a story is much like creating an article although there are a slightly relaxed set of rules.
- Unlike articles, stories are not strictly factual pieces. Stories can be any event in your life that you feel should be shared with the Anabaptist community. These could include faith journeys, founding of congregations, overseas service, etc.
- When writing a story, you aren't required to cite anything and your narrative may be opinionated. This is your story so it should embody your voice.
- Be sure to give credit to yourself for writing the story. Sign your name at the end of the page.
- Stories cannot be edited by other users so your story is protected from tampering. Once your story is written, Anabaptistwiki administrators will come through and protect your page from editing. If this hasn't happened in awhile, maybe because the administrators are busy, feel free to send an email to one of them politely suggesting to protect your story. Remember these people are volunteers.
Creating a story is much the same as creating an article. Simply follow the "Create an article" procedure as outlined above, however, when it comes to designating categories, be sure to include your story in the correct country source category. For instance, if you are from Canada or your article is centered around Canada, link your story to the "Canada Sources" page. Remember, if your story could be linked to multiple countries, link them all. The more links a story has, the more likely it will be read.
For more information visit the about stories page.
Uploading a Source
For categories make sure to include date and location but add anything else relevant
For more information visit the about sources page.
Editing
For help learning how to edit and format text in the Global Anabaptist Wiki, check out the MetaWiki help guide. Especially note the how to edit page. The MediaWiki help guide also offers helpful information, especially the formatting page.
