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To add a new item, go back to the Main Page and choose "Current Chance News".  This will bring up a page with the names of the articles in the current chance news and a series of "items" for additional  contributions.
To add a new item, go back to the "Main Page" and choose "Current Chance News".  This will bring up a page with the names of the articles already in the current chance news and a series of "items" for additional contributions. Choose "edit" from the top of the page. If "Item x" is the next available item, replace item x by the name of your contribution. This can be the name of your news article or a name that you choose. Next choose "Show Preview" from the bottom of the page and see if your name is o.k. If so choose "Save page" from the bottom of the page and you will have added your title to the table of contents for Current Chance News.


Choose "edit" from the top this page. Go to the first available "item"  and replace "item x" by a name for your contribution.  This  can be  the name of  the article or if you have a better name you can use it. Then choose "Show Preview" from the bottom of the page and see if it is o.k. If so choose "Save page" from the bottom of the  page  and you will have added your title to the table of  contents for  Current Chance News.
Then click on your title and a new page for your article will come up. Choose "edit" from the top of this page and put in your comments about the article. Then again choose "Show Preview" and if it is o.k. choose "Save Page" and you will have contributed an article to the Current Çhance News. You can find aditional help for editing your new page from the Help on the sidebar.


Then click on your title and a new page for this article  will come up. Choose "edit" from the top of this page  
To change an existing Chance News item, select the article from the table of contents and then choose "edit" from the top of the article.  Then make your changes, check them with "Show Preview" and if they are o.k. "Save Page". But a brief indication of the change you made under the Summary bar at the bottom of the page


Then  choose "edit" from the top of the page and put in the name of the article, the newspaper or journal where it appeared and the date and the author. Use the following format:
Whenever changes are made in an article the previous page is saved on the "History" page atthe top of the article's page. So if someone changes a page in a way that someone feels does not improve the original article they can always switch back to the original page. We would not expect this to happen very often.


Replace the first available "item" in the table of contents by a title for your aarticle.  It does not have to be the title  of the article itself if this is too long. Then check choose "Show preview" from the bottom of the page to see if it is o.k. . If so choose "save" from the bottom of the page.  Choose "edit" from the top of the page and type in our contribution. Then again preview it and if it is o.k. save it and we will have a new item in the current chance news. Use edit, preview and save in the same way to make changes in an existing Chance News item. Please give a brief description of change you made in the summary statement at the bottom of the page.
Finally, at the top of each page you will see a "discussion page". You can use this to ask questions about the articleFor genral questions about the ChanceWiki use the "discussion page" at the top of the Main Page.
 
If you wish to discuss one of the articles or any aspect of the chancewiki leave your comments in the "discussion" page at the top of your current page.
 
For further information about how to  add a page choose "help" from the side bar.

Revision as of 01:19, 16 April 2005

To add a new item, go back to the "Main Page" and choose "Current Chance News". This will bring up a page with the names of the articles already in the current chance news and a series of "items" for additional contributions. Choose "edit" from the top of the page. If "Item x" is the next available item, replace item x by the name of your contribution. This can be the name of your news article or a name that you choose. Next choose "Show Preview" from the bottom of the page and see if your name is o.k. If so choose "Save page" from the bottom of the page and you will have added your title to the table of contents for Current Chance News.

Then click on your title and a new page for your article will come up. Choose "edit" from the top of this page and put in your comments about the article. Then again choose "Show Preview" and if it is o.k. choose "Save Page" and you will have contributed an article to the Current Çhance News. You can find aditional help for editing your new page from the Help on the sidebar.

To change an existing Chance News item, select the article from the table of contents and then choose "edit" from the top of the article. Then make your changes, check them with "Show Preview" and if they are o.k. "Save Page". But a brief indication of the change you made under the Summary bar at the bottom of the page.

Whenever changes are made in an article the previous page is saved on the "History" page atthe top of the article's page. So if someone changes a page in a way that someone feels does not improve the original article they can always switch back to the original page. We would not expect this to happen very often.

Finally, at the top of each page you will see a "discussion page". You can use this to ask questions about the article. For genral questions about the ChanceWiki use the "discussion page" at the top of the Main Page.