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Welcome to HCE Wiki and thank you for deciding to help! If you are new to wikipedia editing, or just new to HCE Wiki, this is a right place to begin. The following page will teach you basics of how to write a wiki article and offer links to places on the Internet should you wish to expand your knowledge further. If you have an idea on how to expand this guide or if you feel something is explained poorly, please head to [[Talk:Getting_started_on_HCE_wiki|this page's talk page ]] and post a comment.

Luckily, creating an article in wiki, or any MediaWiki based wikifor that matter, is easy. For mere writing , you do not need to have any HTML and CSS knowledge as the wiki takes care of most of the layout and text-style setting formatting itself.

The fastest way to create an article on the wiki is to search for the entry you wish to createusing the search bar in the top right. The wiki will, after telling you it can't find such an article, offer you to start one. Other way of creating an article is to click on a red linkwhich you may find in some articles. The red colour indicates that there is no such article even though the original page tries to link to it. By clicking on the link, you essentially do the same as searching for it, except you did not have to type the name of the article first as someone already expected such article to be made. You will be presented with an edit window.

If you are accustomed to using word text processors like Microsoft Word, then this view should be pretty familiar.Let's go over the different elements of it.

Moving down to the second row, this is the part that probably you will use the most useful. Here you can change the formatting of selected text much like you would inside a desktop word text processor. Apart from the '''B'''old and ''I''talics buttons, the second row also contains a number of very useful other buttons. You can see them labelled that are explained below.

A - Adds your signature. This is useful for commenting in the Talk pages, since you don't need to write your nickname and make a link to your profile every time you are commenting somethingmaking a comment. During the editing, you will see the signature as a number of non-descriptive charactershyphens and tildes. But don't worry, these will get replaced by your signature and a link to your profile upon after saving the page.

You may have also noticed the little blue arrows on the right side of the links. These indicates that they are external links and lead outside of the wiki. A local link, that goes to an article that is on this very wiki, does not have the little arrow. Example: [[Smartglasses]]. The wiki will take care of forming a proper HTML link for the article, so you don't have to worry about copying creating a HTML link manually. C - Inserts a file, usually a picture, to the URL from your Internet browserbody of the article. The <code>Filename:</code> field is mandatory. You will need to upload the file to the wiki first, using the [[Special:Upload]] page. After successfully uploading the file, you can copy the file name, including the File: part, into the <code>Filename:</code> field, click Insert, and the file will be embedded into the page at the place of the cursor. See [[How to upload file]] guide for more information on uploading files to this wiki. You can also type the caption for the file, as well as select it's address barposition and dimensions on the page.