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Contents 1 Creating a New Page 2 Editing 2.1 Show Preview 3 Formatting 3.1 Bold and italics 3.2 Headings and subheadings 3.3 Heading 3.3.1 Subheading 4 Linking 4.1 How to link

[edit/عدّل] Creating a New Page

In the search box below, type the title of your page, then click Go. If the Search page reports "No page with that title exists" then you can click the red "Create the article" link to start editing your page.

[edit/عدّل] Editing

With the exception of a few protected pages, every page has a link that says "Edit/عدّل الصفحه", which lets you edit the page you are looking at. It is Shawshara.com's most basic feature, and allows you to make corrections and add facts to page.

[edit/عدّل] Show Preview

One important feature to start using now is the Show preview button. This allows you to see what the page will look like after your edit, before you actually save. We all make mistakes; this feature lets you catch them. Using Show Preview before saving also lets you try format changes and other edits without cluttering up the page history and has a number of other advantages. Do not forget to save your edits after previewing, though!

[edit/عدّل] Formatting

Formatting Shawshara.com pages is a bit different from writing on a standard word processor. Shawshara.com uses text codes to create particular elements of the page (e.g. headings). This "language" is designed for ease of editing.

[edit/عدّل] Bold and italics

The most commonly used wiki tags are bold and italics. Bolding and italicizing are done by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes ('):

You type	You get
''italic''	italic
'''bold'''	bold
'''''bold italic'''''	bold italic

[edit/عدّل] Headings and subheadings

Headings and subheadings are an easy way to improve the organization of a page.

Headings can be created like this:

You type	You get
== Heading ==	[edit/عدّل] Heading
=== Subheading ===	[edit/عدّل] Subheading

If a page has at least four headings, a table of contents will automatically be generated.

[edit/عدّل] Linking

Linking Shawshara.com's pages together is very important. These easily created links allow users to access information related to the page they are reading and greatly add to Shawshara.com's utility.

[edit/عدّل] How to link

When you want to make a link to another Shawshara.com page you have to put it in double square brackets, like this:

[[Amr Diab]] = Amr Diab

If you want the display text of the link to have a different title, you can do so by adding the "|" divider (SHIFT + BACKSLASH on English-layout and other keyboards) followed by the alternative name. For example:

[[Target page|display text]] = display text

You can make a link to a specific section of a page like so:

[[Target page#Target section|display text]] = display text