In general, when you're starting to think about graduating from small changes to large ones (and creating entire new pages or categories): '''read before you write'''. It's even easier to steal formatting and layout on a wiki than it is in traditional HTML, so look for pages that are well laid out, and copy them, replacing their text with your own. Look at active talk pages for examples of how to thread conversations in MW's admittedly slightly weak Talk: system (it's nice because it keeps conversations near what they talk about, at the expense of making you work a tiny bit harder). | In general, when you're starting to think about graduating from small changes to large ones (and creating entire new pages or categories): '''read before you write'''. It's even easier to steal formatting and layout on a wiki than it is in traditional HTML, so look for pages that are well laid out, and copy them, replacing their text with your own. Look at active talk pages for examples of how to thread conversations in MW's admittedly slightly weak Talk: system (it's nice because it keeps conversations near what they talk about, at the expense of making you work a tiny bit harder). |