Help:Knitting Articles
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Finding the Knitting Articles
All the knitting pattern categories in the KnitWiki are listed in the knitting article category page
Individual articles can be found in each subcategory.
Adding a Knitting Article to the KnitWiki
Before adding an article please check the appropriate subcategories in the knitting article category page to make sure your topic is not already there.
If your topic isn't already there you can add it.
Check for Wanted Pages
First, check the wanted page category to see if there is a link to your topic. If there is, click on the link and you will be taken to the edit section for that page.
Create the New Page
If there is no link to your article topic you can create it as follows.
Type the following url into your browser:
http://knitting-and.com/wiki/
followed by the name of the article you would like to add. Please use capital letters at the beginning of each word, and an underscore or space between words. Do not use an ampersand "&" as these will break the code and your page content will not show properly.
I'm going to add an article called "Sample Article" so my url looks like this:
This will take you to an intermediate page that asks you if you want to search for the page title in other pages, or edit the missing page. To edit the page, click on the link that looks like this: "
".
Edit the New Page
Once you have clicked on the link a page will pop up that looks like this (using my Sample Article page as an example):
All the code for your article will be typed in the box
The Basic Code
All knitting articles in the KnitWiki are formatted with the following text. (For more information on what all those equal signs do, plus other ways to format your text and images, see Help:Formatting).
==Title== [[image:intro-photo_for_your_article.jpg]] Text for your article [[image:other-photos-as-needed.jpg]] More text and photos if they are required == Additional Information == Add information that people who read your article might be interested in, including links to other articles that are in the wiki, or new articles that someone else might like to write. See my example below for details. == External Links == Links outside the wiki that might be of interest. For example, here is a link to the home page of this website. It begins with the url and finishes with the words I want to link to that page: [http://www.knitting-and.com Knitting-and.com home page] Finally, every article should end with this code so that it is listed correctly in the appropriate category: [[category:Category Name|Your article name typed in plain text]]
For a list of all knitting pattern categories see the official list of article categories for the KnitWiki project
I'm going to add an article called Sample Article
In the edit box I have written the following code:
==Sample Article About the Ducky Icord Knitter== [[image:sample-eggy-knitter.jpg]] Some interesting text about the ducky i-cord knitter == Additional Information == [[I-Cord|How to knit i-cord]] [[French_Knitting|French knitting using a knitting spool]] == External Links == [http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/toys/icordteddybear.htm How to make a tiny teddy bear out of i-cord] [[category:Help|Sample Knitting Pattern]]
When I click "save" this creates the Sample Article page with links to upload the images. You can see that where I typed [[image:sample-eggy-knitter.jpg]] a picture has not yet appeared. It has become a red link to image:sample-eggy-knitter.jpg. Red links mean that the page or image you have linked to does not yet exist.
Upload Your Images
To upload your image, click on the red link for the image you would like to upload. This will take you to the file upload page.
Using my sample article example, I clicked on the red link for image:Sample-eggy-knitter.jpg and have been taken to the upload page:
Click the browse button and a window will pop up so that you can choose the file you want to upload. Make sure the extension on the file you are uploading, and the extension of the destination file are the same. For example, both my files are in jpg format.
Then, fill in the summary box with any information you think is important. You might want to put the source of the photo, who owns the copyright if someone else has given you permission to use their work, or a note about the photo. The image below shows how I filled in the form to upload the image for my Sample Article page.
Click the upload file button and you will be taken to a new page showing your image with your comments underneath it, the history of the image (who has changed it and so on), and a list of all the pages that link to your image.
You've now finished uploading your image and the next time you view your article the image will appear instead of the red text link.
Here is an image showing my finished Sample Article
Those Other Red Links
At the bottom of my sample article you can see red links to How to knit i-cord and French knitting using a knitting spool
These links are red because the articles do not yet exist. Linking to articles that don't exist will make them appear in the wanted page category and if someone else writes the article it will already be linked to from your stitch pattern.
Linking to a nonexistent article is a good idea for several reasons:
- If someone is looking for an article to write, but they don't know what to write about they can visit the wanted page category for inspiration
- You won't have to keep checking the KnitWiki to see if someone has written something you should link to in your article
- If someone is reading your article and they click on a link to a nonexistent page about a topic they know a lot about, they might decide to write a new article on that topic.
