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The Macalester Public Knowledge Base (MPKB) is a public platform that is open to the public for general organizing work at Macalester College and in greater Minnesota. The following articles contain guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating in the MPKB project.
For a cross-project reference regarding projects at Wikimedia Foundation, the developer of MediaWiki software, see the MediaWiki User's Guide.
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How do I do that?
See also: MPKB's How to for a full list.
Using MPKB
- How to explore MPKB
- How to search for an article
- How to use talk pages
- How to use the Recent Changes page
- How to use the Related Changes page
- How to use the Go button
- How to log in
- How to set preferences (Meta-Wikimedia version)
Modifying a MediaWiki page
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page, including markup details. You can experiment with editing pages in the sandbox.
- How to start a new page
- How to use categories
- How to use images (and the image use policy)
- How to use redirect pages See also interwiki shortcuts
- How to use tables
- How to use templates (and the available templates)
- How to upload files to Adelante
- How to add boilerplate text
- How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
- How to rename (move) a page
- How to delete pages/images/categories
- How to link together MPKB articles in different languages
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
- How to edit with an external editor
- How to edit mathematical formulas using TeX
- How to produce graphics for pages
- How to protect/unprotect pages (sysops only)
- How to modify navigation menu (sysops only)
Information and resources for contributors
- Frequently-asked questions
- Policies and guidelines for contributors
- Glossary of common Adelante terms
- Style and How-to Directory
- How to write a great article
- Public domain resources
- Manual of style
- Contributing to articles outside your native language
- WikiProjects, writing and style guidelines for specific disciplines.
- Topical index, a collection of links to pages that are useful to "doing things" in Adelante.
Getting in touch
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