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* [[Help:Editing]]
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* [[Help:What is a wiki]]?
* [[Help:What is a wiki]]?
==How to create a Private page==
We have created a new NameSpace which requires users to be logged in to view the page i.e. only Redbrick users. To create such a page preappend your topic with 'RBOnly:' i.e.
http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/RBOnly:CommitteeMinutes
To create your own would be:-
<nowiki>http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/mw/RBOnly:<Topic></nowiki>


==How do I sign in?==
==How do I sign in?==
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Once you are signed in you can edit any topic or create new ones.
Once you are signed in you can edit any topic or create new ones.
==I want shorter URLS for articles==
The wiki links are a bit long to use so you can replace this part of the URL http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wiki/ with http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie. For example http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~wiki/wm/Main_Page can also be accessed using the URL http://wiki.redbrick.dcu.ie/wm/Main_Page.


==I'm too lazy to figure it out myself!==
==I'm too lazy to figure it out myself!==
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Arg! I've found something is wrong, but I don't know what it should be. Don't bother emailing the "author". The last person to modify it may only have been correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. You can just add a comment to the 'Discussion' article associated with the offending page saying what is wrong and hopefully some other redbrick user will correct it. (Or you can just post to the redbrick newsgroups about it).
Arg! I've found something is wrong, but I don't know what it should be. Don't bother emailing the "author". The last person to modify it may only have been correcting spelling and grammar mistakes. You can just add a comment to the 'Discussion' article associated with the offending page saying what is wrong and hopefully some other redbrick user will correct it. (Or you can just post to the redbrick newsgroups about it).
Alternatively contact [[Helpdesk]] and explain the problem and in which article it is.
==I can't login!==
There is an existing problem with usernames with underscores in them. This is currently being investigated.