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| - An Introduction to Expanding MarioMarconipedia, by Dalinian Thank you for showing-an-interest/volunteering-to-play-a-part in building our wonderful MarioMarconipedia wiki. I hope you'll find collaborating with fellow Mariopedians to be light-hearted, fun, enlightening and fulfilling. This guide is designed to take the five folks who volunteered to be the initial wiki-building team through an easy page-creation-and-linking learning exercise. I am Dalinian on Wikia (dalinian61 on Digital Spy), MarioMarconipedia's founder and initial facilitator, and I hope that this Guide will also be useful to other folks who'd like to help build our wonderful Facts About Mario encyclopedia. Since we've a couple of folks on the initial wiki-building volunteer team who've self-assessed their current wiki building skill around 1, I'll aim to target these Guide notes at first timers, and if you've more experience, you may be able to skip lightly from one HINT, NOTE or ACTION item to the next. Being as how it seems we're all familiar enough with the Digital Spy Big Brother (DS:BB) forums and their Private Messages (PMs), I'll be making assumptions about your general level of computer and web literacy – but if you don't get something, I'll be on hand online to answer queries, and guide you through a process in real time if that'll help (more on MarioMarconipedia communications below). As you follow through this exercise, pay close attention to all the new items you see in the wiki development environment, like button bars, the Editing Tips box, links to Help, and so on – they're all there to aid you, and you'll benefit greatly from discovering all the possibilities they offer, either in the moment or later on. In this first Guide, I'll take you through bookmarking our MarioMarconipedia wiki's Main Page, setting up a Wikia account, making your own My Top 10 Facts about Mario page in MarioMarconipedia, adding a link to it on our Main Page, and sharing your success via a Wikia talk page message posting and a group PM. There's also a Getting Help section and a Glossary at the end. Remember – it is NOT a race! We each have different skills, abilities and commitments, so if you take your time, and enjoy yourself, then when you've finished this exercise you'll have taken just as long as YOU needed to do it. A quick word about onscreen windows – it'll be best to have at least three open at once: one web browser (WB) window displaying this Guide, another WB window for the actions you take inside MarioMarconipedia and at DS:BB in completing this Guide's exercise, and a text editor (TE, on which more below) window for drafting your My Top 10 Facts about Mario page. Ready? Steady? Go Johnny Go Go Go Go! __TOC__
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