CreationWiki:Help

Registration

All users are required to register and login before editorial status is effective. Self registration has been disabled to reduce vandalism. To obtain a CreationWiki username and password, request an account from the Registrar.

CreationWiki editors are required to follow standards and practices that are outlined in our Terms of Service. Please familiarize yourself with these rules of participation. A more detiled summary of our policies can be on our policy page.

There are many methods that can be used to find your way around the CreationWiki

• Navigation Help - menus, sidebars, pagetabs, links.
• Searching - customizing and restricting results.
• Tracking changes
• Categories - tags that help group similar articles.
  • Alphabetic index
  • Most linked categories
  • Root category

Ready to jump in and contribute to the CreationWiki effort?

• Create a new page by entering a title for your new article and click the "Create page" button.
• Learn the basics of editing such as using the Editing Tool Bar.

Basic formatting tips are helpful for when you are ready to move beyond text-only editing. Regular editors are asked to observe the CreationWiki Style Guide to help standardize content.

• Links
• Headings
• Lists
• Tables
• Images

• Templates provide quick and easy methods for formatting pages.
• Math provides help in formatting mathematical expressions.
• Database semantics query the database to produce annotated results.
• Citing sources
• Footnotes
• Variables
• Videos Embed video from a shared-video site (i.e. YouTube, Google videos, GodTube).
• Namespaces

• Uploading files: learn how images and other files are uploaded to the CreationWiki.

Please Note: Strict policy exists for uploaded files. All files must be free of copyright restrictions. Browse a list of sites to find public domain or Creative Commons Licensed media. Formatting help can be found at: Image help.

• The Community Portal is the hub for finding helpful information, policy and guidelines, and places where you can help.
• Discussion help - learn how to interact with other CreationWiki users and peer-review articles.
• Help wanted - browse a list of projects that need significant assistance.

• What are Administrators
• What is the Check User function
• Lists of CreationWiki Admins
• Contact the Administration

• MediaWiki Help Contents
• Wikipedia Help Contents

The CreationWiki is a valuable resource that is growing to become one of the most important research tools available to the creationist community. If you value this resource, please consider making a donation to help support its development. Donations are accepted through the secure Northwest Creation Network webstore, which accepts most major credit cards and Paypal.

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