Help:Contents

Welcome
Welcome to the help section of. We hope to provide you with the information you are looking for; if you can't find it, please feel free to ask away on Help:Questions.

Have something that you think should be added but don't know how to prove yourself? Add it to this page. Please note, however, that is a compendium of proofs, not an online math help service.

Before bothering you with any of the specifics that have come to constitute the style, there are two things we want to draw attention to: sandboxes and discussion page etiquette.

Sandbox
The sandbox is a great place to test out your $\LaTeX$ and wiki skills without having to tamper with an actual page.

If you don't want to use the main sandbox, you can always create your own personal one at the web address http://www.proofwiki.org/wiki/User:your_username/Sandbox.

Discussion Pages
When you post on a discussion page be sure to include your signature. This includes your username (with a link to your user page), and a timestamp of when the edit was made. You can include your signature by pressing the signature button the on taskbar above the editing window (second button from the right). You can also manually insert your signature.

Signatures are often preceded by -- (two dashes) to separate the signature from the text body, although this is not necessary.

Help pages
The structure of the help section is roughly as follows:


 * Editing: comprehensive general documentation; good first read
 * Page Editing: details on how pages are to be structured
 * Sources: how to refer to source works
 * Categories: how to structure by categories
 * Disambiguation: how to deal with ambiguous names for theorems and definitions
 * Wiki Editing: dealing with the MediaWiki architecture
 * Redirects: how to redirect a page to another
 * Transclusion: how to include the contents of a page onto another
 * Extension: documentation of -specific extensions of MediaWiki
 * $\LaTeX$ Editing: how to typeset mathematics


 * House Style: information on -specific rules and conventions