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This wiki contains images and pages that are grouped in Collections. Collections form a hierarchy, so that anything that is e.g. in the
"Churches/Religious" collection is also in the "Buildings" collection.
Should generate the collection hierarchy somewhere on this page.
Important Things to Remember
- There is no autosave function! If you are creating a large page or doing a large edit, be sure to click "Save changes" often so you do not lose your work.
- Do not be worried about making errors when editing pages. A wiki is meant to be robust. There is no practical limit to the number of edits you can make, and you can revert a page to an earlier version at any time.
- Many of the functions on this page will not work unless you are logged in with an account that has the correct permissions.
- If you have any questions or problems, please contact us at squirrel@squirrelslair.ca.
Images and Files
- To list all of the images with their annotations that are uploaded to this wiki, click here: Images
- To list and search all of the files (with no annotations) that are uploaded to this wiki, click here: Special:ListFiles
- To search for a particular file, enter all or part of the file name in the search box at the top-right of any wiki page
- To upload an image or other type of file, click here: Special:Upload
- To annotate or edit the annotations of an existing image, go to the page for the image and click "Edit with form".
- To add an image to a collection or collections, go to the page for the image and click "Edit with form", then look for the "Collections" section.
- To delete an image, go to the page for the image and click "Delete all".
Pages
- To list all of the pages on this wiki, click here: Special:AllPages
- To search for a particular page, enter all or part of the page name in the search box at the top-right of any wiki page
- To create a new page, enter the page name below (note that this will also check for existing pages with the same name):
- To add a page to a collection, enter the page name in the spot below and assign any relevant categories:
- To delete a page
Collections
- To create a new collection:
- Make a collection page by entering the name of the collection here:
- assign the new collection to a parent collection if applicable using the form:
- add the collection to the template hierarchy by editing Template:CollectedIn
- Re-create the table to update the hierarchy:
- in template, click the "Recreate data" tab
- uncheck the "Recreate data into a replacement table, keeping the old one for querying"
- click OK
- wait 1 minute for process to complete (you can click on "View replacement table" link to check progress
Some queries will not show a collection unless it has at least one item in it.
Accounts and Permissions
- To list all existing accounts on this wiki and their permissions and status, click here: Special:ListUsers
- To block/disable an account (accounts cannot be deleted), use the above list and click the "block" link beside their name
- To un-block an account, click here: Special:BlockList
- To create a wiki account, click here: Special:CreateAccount
- To set permissions for an account (such as granting admin privileges), click here: Special:UserRights
Useful Pages
- Find all of the Special Pages at Special:SpecialPages
- Wiki markup language information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext