Tips for contributing to the SVR Wiki
The SVRSevern Valley Railway Wiki is a collaborative effort, and is open to anyone who wishes to contribute to it. By clicking the "Edit" button at the top right of any page, you are able to modify its contents. These will be saved when you hit "Save page" at the bottom of the editor, but you can also display a preview of your edits (to check that things are displaying correctly) by clicking "Show preview". There is no need to be timid about editing, as each edit is saved and recorded, allowing any accidents to be undone with a few clicks of a button!
Editing and Formatting
Below are a selection of tips about editing this site. The software this site uses is Mediawiki, which can be found on many other websites, including the well-known Wikipedia. The manual can be accessed by clicking the "Help" button at the left (fourth entry down), or by following this link. Alternatively, you can probably find answers to most questions by searching online (e.g. on Google), using a query such as "Mediawiki Add Bold Text".
Linking between pages
You can create a link to another page on the wiki by placing the title of the page inside two square brackets, e.g. [[Alveley Sidings]], which shows up as Alveley Sidings. If you wish to link to a page, but display some text other than the page title, you can do this by placing a vertical bar after the page name, and then entering your text, e.g. [[Alveley Sidings|coal sidings at Alveley]], which would display as coal sidings at Alveley.
Note that you must use the same capitalisation as the title of the page you're linking to - so [[alveley sidings]] will not work.
Creating a new Page
To create a new page, you need to add a link to it from another page. Once you have done this, the link will show up in red, to indicate that the page does not yet exist - clicking a link like this, such as Nonexistent Page, will allow you to start creating that page, identically to how you would edit any normal page.
