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Page Structure: 

Help: Starting a new page
  - Help: Filling the page
     - Help: Page Guides (could be covered in Filling page)
  - Help: Editing

- Help: Search

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Help: Filling The Page

Filling a page can be a daunting task, but it like anything else it's easiest to break it up. On this page we'll provide a brief description of what a page should do as a bare minimum, and give you some tips on what else you can put into an article. We have also compiled a set of templates/guides showing you how we lay out different types of pages.

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Getting Started

So what's the first thing to add to a new page? Usually it's best to start with a brief paragraph describing the subject at hand in general (eg. a summary of the river, a description of the Book, or item of equipment, etc.)

Many of our pages feature Infoboxes at the top giving a basic details about the subject (eg. length of the river, average grade, location etc.) These boxes allow us to keep a consistent layout and feel to the site, and enable users to quickly look up facts without trawling through paragraphs of text. We also use a number of Infoboxes throughout pages to summaries other things, such as river sections, get-ins and get-outs, and notifying hazards. These boxes are for drawing attention to specific details, and not for writing paragraphs of information in.

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What do I need to put here?

This depends on the type of page you're writing, and to this end we've produced a set of guides and templates to show you the basic structure of our pages:

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So how do I format everything?

If you're unfamiliar with how Wiki formatting works, you can read the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing Guide, and we recommend that you spend a little time in the Wikipaddle:Sandbox testing out different types of formatting.

If you're at all familiar with how HTML works, or other "tag" based mark-up systems then you should be able to pick up Wiki editing relatively quickly. But if you're not, don't worry. Wiki editing isn't as complex as HTML, and it's designed to be simple to pick up.



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River Pages

All our river pages share some basic elements:

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Head

At the head of every river guide page is a River Infobox giving summary information for the entire river, including:

  • Name, and an Image (non essential, although is there's one particularly iconic feature of the river it is best used here),
  • Distance from source to mouth (or confluence if it joins another river),
  • Average Grade of the river, although this is best represented as a rage (ie. Grade 2 to 3),
  • The country(s) the river is located in, and the specific regions as well,
  • Latitude and Longitude coordinates, if there is a single major reference point for the river (ie. the National Whitewater Centre at the Tryweryn). For bigger rivers these are best left blank.

A summary paragraph describing the river as a whole follows the Infobox, giving details about the river's source, where it joins the sea/another river, and any other interesting background information you would like to add.

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Body

The body of the page consists of River sections', in the order they occur travelling down river from the source. Each of these should be given it's own heading, a descriptive paragraph or two, and a River Section Infobox detailing:

  • The name (preferably "A to B" ),
  • Grade of the section (best done as a range, eg. "1 to 2"),
  • Distance to next point downriver, and estimated time (round it up and preferably give it in a range, eg. "2-3 hours")
  • And the latitude and longitude coordinates for the start of the section (ie. the location of the get-in)

Each river section leads on down to he next. If you want to add a section or access point in between two existing sections, you should create an entirely new Infobox for that get-in/out and alter the details in the above Infobox accordingly (eg. lower the distance/time estimates, change the grade of the river, etc.)

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Foot

At the foot of the page there should be an Access Summary, detailing Access Agreements (if any) as well as any problems that ave occurred (these should also be noted in the appropriate river section above).

Following that is a Map at the bottom of the page displaying all relevant locations for the river, including get-ins and outs, major hazards or features, and convenient car-parking if it's at all far form the access points.

  • A set of categories the page fits into. See our Category Guide page for recommendations on where pages fit into the category system.

Here are the templates for the Infoboxes used on all river pages, simply replace the text in quotation marks (" ") with the information needed:

Main River Box: 

{{Infobox River
|image=[[Image:"image name here".jpg|150px]]
|name= "Name of the river"
|grade= "Grade of the river"
|distance= "Total distance of river (if known)"
|country= "Country (multiple if necessary)"
|region= "Region of the country (multiple if necessary)"
|lat= "Latitude coordinate"
|lon= "Longitude coordinate"
}}

River Section Box: 

{{Infobox River Section
|image=[[Image:"image name here".jpg|150px]]
|name= "Get-in" to "Get-out"
|grade= "Grade number"
|distance= "Estimated distance, in both Km and Miles"
|time= "Estimated time to run the section (best as a range)"
|lat= "Latitude coordinate of get-in"
|lon= "Longitude coordinate of get-in"
}}

Access: 

= FORMAL ACCESS AGREEMENT =
'''From:''' X
'''To:''' Y
'''Time of year:''' Month, Dates, ect.
'''Conditions:''' "Thou Shalt Not!"
(repeat as necessary)

Map: 

= Map =
<googlemap width="600" height="350" lat=" XXXX " lon=" YYYY " zoom=" XX " controls="large">

latitude, longitude, Name, Details, More Details.
latitude, longitude, Name, Details, More Details.
</googlemap>

Feel free to expand, adding extra sub-headings within sections for key points (eg. notable features, dangerous portages etc.), adding more detail to someone else's work, or adding photos (although too many of these will slow down page-loading times and use up bandwidth so keep it to a reasonable level).

Tips:

  • For help with setting up or adding to the map, see our Help: Maps page.
  • Not all the fields in the infoboxes have to be filled. For instance in cases like the Tryweryn where there are several points within one close area it is not necessary to give "lat and long" points on some sections.
  • Read-up on Wiki style formatting and have a look at the WikiMedia Editing Guide.
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Equipment Page

stuff here soon...

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Book Page

You may have notices Wikipaddle has a Books section. This is a collection of the best paddling books out there. 

{{Infobox Book 
| name = Title
| image = [[Image:cover.jpg|170px]]
| author = Author's Name
| publisher = Publisher
| release_date = Month Year
| pages = XXX
| isbn = 0XXXXXXXXXX
}}

== Synopsis ==
Blurb and further description here.
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