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Hello! We are glad that you are interested in helping us to make the Coppermind even better. This page should give you a general introduction to editing. If you have any questions not addressed here or anything here is unclear, please don’t hesitate to ask us on [
Essentially, if you know how to use a basic word processor, you can edit the wiki. On every article there is a tab at the top of the page that says Edit. Clicking this will take you to a basic text editor where you can add to the page or edit the text that is already there. On longer articles, there will also be an edit button next to each section heading that will take you to a text editor for just that section. If you want to ignore all of the wiki formatting tools and just add content or edit grammar, that is fine. If you are interested in doing more with formatting, read on.
If you want to link to another article in the Coppermind, enclose the title of that article in double square braces. For example, if you want to link to the page about axehounds, you would type
<nowiki> [[axehound]]s</nowiki>
to get the link [[axehound]]s.
If you want to make your link have a different text than the article it links to, you would type
<nowiki> [[allomancy|burning metals]]</nowiki>
to get the link [[allomancy|burning metals]] which redirects to the page on [[Allomancy]].
A general purpose external link footnote can be created by using the syntax
<nowiki>{{ref|text=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson}}</nowiki>
which will produce a footnote{{ref|text=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson}} link to the references section at the bottom of the article, inserting whatever comes after the "text=" tag. In this example, the text is a hyperlink, but any text can be inserted.
See [[Help:Cite]] for additional templates for linking to specific types of resources, such as Brandon's tweets.
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