Help:The Fegel Times

This help page will help you (somewhat) in the business of editing and managing The Fegel Times. It is recommended that you switch to the source mode - it will take getting used to, but very essential as the Visual Editor will raise its ugly butt most often when editing on the news page in particular.

The terms The Fegel Times and News page are equivalent and will be used interchangeably in this page. This page assumes that you have the Visual Editor as default.

Writing a news item

 * 1) Go to edit mode by clicking the "Perform Antic" button at the top of the page.
 * 2) To add a news item of a new date:
 * 3) Place the cursor at the very beginning of the last date entry and hit the Enter key.
 * 4) Type in the new date. Hit the Enter key.
 * 5) Click on the unordered list (bullet list) button on the toolbar and type the news item.
 * 6) SWITCH TO SOURCE MODE.
 * 7) Move the date entry from being under the bullet list to the top.
 * 8) To add a more news item of an existing date:
 * 9) Place the cursor at the very end of the last news item entry and hit Enter. A new bullet list should appear.
 * 10) Type the news item.
 * 11) Optionally, you can add your shorthand signature on the news item by inserting the News author template.

Archiving news items
Every now and then, news items needs to be archived to avoid cluttering the main News page with old items. Generally, news items three months back and older are eligible for archiving.

Here's how you do it:
 * 1) Go to the edit mode.
 * 2) Meanwhile, open a new browser tab and create a new page (Archive page) in the following format:
 * Hitler_Parody_Wiki:News/year/Month
 * 1) Cut and paste all the news items of the month concerned and paste them into the new page.
 * 2) On the Archive page, switch to source mode and make sure the dates (in the form of ;date) precedes the news items (in the form of *news item)
 * 3) Publish the Archive page.
 * 4) On the original Fegel Times page, replace the month heading with the following (switch to source mode first):
 * Make sure the ===month heading=== is on its own line!
 * 1) Publish the News page.