Welcome to Venipedia. You have been instructed (or maybe you just want) to create articles to improve our wiki. Please note the word "improve": your articles must be properly spell- and grammar-checked, interesting, and above all, about Venice. If they're not, they don't belong on Venipedia. We've had problems with this before, but you know better.

Think seriously about which namespace your pages belong in. If you don't know what a namespace is, see here. You may be creating two kinds of pages:

• Pages about Venice-related topics, but which are more detailed than what is currently in (or appropriate to) Wikipedia. (If your page is about the same topic as one existing in Wikipedia already, and if your page goes into less detail about the topic than Wikipedia's, it doesn't belong here). Provided you page is appropriate to Venipedia, it belongs in the Main namespace, and requires no prefix before its title.
• Pages aimed at future visitors (students, professionals, faculty, normal tourists, etc.) to Venice, offering tips or insight about visiting the city that one cannot find elsewhere. These pages belong in the WikedVenice namespace. When creating these pages, put the "WikedVenice:" prefix before the title.

Do not put a page in any other namespace without consulting Dr. Carrera (or Kyle Miller) first.

Contents 1 Start editing 2 Maps 3 Ideas for pages 4 Preview before saving!

Start editing

Here is where to learn how to edit pages and use proper MediaWiki syntax: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing. It's the same as Wikipedia, if you've ever tried that. For help on images, go here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images.

To create a new page, select new page under the wiki menu. Don't forget to list the pages you have created/will be creating here. You might not receive credit for them if you don't.

Maps

To insert a map in your pages, consult the instructions here. Please note that you must be accessing the wiki through the venipedia.org domain for maps to work properly. Otherwise, you will receive an "invalid API key" error, and the maps will not display.

Ideas for pages

If nothing occurs to you, you could consult the Wanted Pages list for ideas of pages to create. Note that a page's inclusion on this list doesn't necessarily mean it will be an approved topic when you submit it to Dr. Carrera.

Preview before saving!

When you think you have finished editing or creating a page, click Show preview to see how your changes will look before you make them permanent. Repeat the edit/preview process until you are satisfied, then click Save page and your changes will be immediately applied to the article. Failure to follow this rule will result in editors being forced to preview their changes before saving. Why should you preview? So we don't have to look at 35 consecutive edits to a single page in the "recent changes" list, that's why!