Sunshine Review:How to edit a page
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To edit pages on Sunshine Review, you first need to be logged into the system. Once you are logged in, from any page (article) on Sunshine Review, simply click the "edit" tab at the top of the page. Your view will now be of the the page in its HTML or WikiStyle format. Your next step depends on the type of editing you intend to do.
Correcting text
For many people, this is the way they first decide to make the jump from reading a wiki to editing now. You want to fix that typo, don't you? So, you click "edit", you find the spot on the page that you want to fix, you fix it, and you hit save. Easy!
In July 2008, some Sunshine Review users created a sandbox page called American states sandbox that is full of errors as a place where new users can experiment worry-free with wiki-editing. If you fix some errors, be sure to add some new ones for those who come after you.
Adding content
Say you're reading an article, and you think the author left out an important fact. Decide where your addition would make the most sense within the article, click "edit", and plug your addition in. Many people prefer to write their additions off line first, and copy and paste it into the wiki once they are satisfied with it. It's good manners to fill in the "summary" bar at the bottom of the page before saving your edits. That way, someone with an interest in the page will have a better understanding of what you changed and why you changed it.
From time to time there will be disagreement on what ought to be included in an article. That's fine, in fact it is often encouraged and can result in a superior product at the end. However, it is preferred that this type of discussion occur on the page you find when you click on the "discussion" tab you'll see in the horizontal menu bar at the top of every article, rather than by taking turns deleting someone else's contributions, and having them delete your own.
Creating new articles
Once you are comfortable editing pages, and changing other people's content, why not start a new article? There are two main ways to go about creating new pages, and they both involve using red links. A red link is a link to an article on Sunshine Review that doesn't exist... yet. It is words placed in the double brackets that indicate an internal link ( [[ ]] ), meant to encourage (or remind) people to follow up on that subject. To use them for writing new pages use one of these techniques:
- Follow a red link with a topic that interests you
- Example: you are looking at the page of your home state and you notice that the link for the city you live in is red, so you decide to follow that link to create a page about your city.
- Find a page that would lead naturally to the topic you want to post about, and edit it to create a red link
- Example: you are looking at the page of your home state and you notice that the city you live in is not mentioned at all, so you decide to edit the state page to include a link to your city.
