Help:Contents
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Help pages
- Commentary pages: Commentary pages are the main content of this site. This help page explains what is and what is not appropriate on a commentary page. It also gives an overview of the four sections on each commentary page: questions, lexical notes, exegesis, and related links.
- User subpages: Personal stories and reflections are not appropriate for commentary pages and should be put on a user subpage instead. This help page explains how to create a user subpage.
- Discussion pages: Although the creation of commentary pages is the primary goal of this site (and, to a lesser extent, user subpages), oftentimes it is useful to discuss the content of these pages. This help page explains how to read and edit discussion pages.
- Site policies: One of the advantages of a wiki is that it allows many people to contribute to the content of a site. Although this allows for exciting collaborative possibilities, there are dangers: if respect for differing points of view is not maintained, the wiki site can breed contention. This page lists the site policies that should be followed by all contributors in order to maintain respect and avoid contention.
- Other helpful pages
- Help:Scriptures: Go here for help on using this site to answer questions about the scriptures.
- Help:Editing : Basic help on how to edit commentary or discussion pages
- Help:Wiki markup: A short overview of wiki markup.
- Our Sandbox: Go here to experiment with editing. If you like to learn by trial and error, this is your place.
- Help:Emailing other users: How to email another user of the site.
- Our FAQ: Go here for answers to common questions.
- Wikipedia pages
- Wikipedia's tutorial: A great tutorial for Wikipedia. Since Wikipedia and this site both use MediaWiki as its engine, much of the help you get from that site is applicable to this one.
- Wikipedia's help pages: More help from Wikipedia.
- MediaWiki help : If you really want to get into the details, go here. This takes you to the section "For editors." That's probably where you want to go but note that there is a lot of additional information about WikiMedia that you can find by browsing around once you are at that site.
If you need help and haven't found it, please add your question to our FAQ page. This site is so new that, from a relative perspective, one occurrence of a question is enough to count it as frequently asked :)
Related links
- Site:Community Portal: If you are here because you want to help Feast upon the Word, please go to our community portal page.
- Site:Feedback: If you are here because there is a problem with this site and you'd like it fixed, or you'd like to suggest an enhancement, go to the feedback page.