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The Mission

This Wiki is run by staff and members of the GT4 Drivers Club http://www.gt4dc.co.uk

The purpose of this venture is to further the knowledge and enjoyment of the GT-Four


Some General guidlines

How do I find content?

You have two choices. Which method you choose is up to you.

A sensible choice is to run through the category browsing described below. If that fails then fall back to the searching method. If both fail then it's time to break out the digicam and notepad............

Searching the content

In the top right of every wiki page is a search box. You can type keywords in here and hit the search button next to it. You will then be taken to a results page listing title and content matches to your keywords

Search Tips

Start off with as broad a search as possible and see how many results come up with for example one term. If there are millions of results try to narrow it down with an additional search term. Pretty much the same as any search engine really!

Searching will pull up pages that have not been correctly entered into the system so it's always worth a search before abandoning hope of finding an article!

Search Example

For example, let's say you have an issue with the ABS on your car. Type ABS into the box and hit enter. Currently the first title match is how to check ABS error codes, a pretty handy starting point!

Use the Categories (Luke)

Check the Site Organisation info above. All the content is organised in (hopefully) intuitive sections. Browsing down through the appropriate category from the main page (maintenance, modification etc) should eventually bring you to the right place. If it doesn't the information may not be there and it might be your turn to contribute!

Category Example

For example lets say you still have an issue with the ABS on your car. It needs maintenance. So from the main page head into the maintenance category. You'll find the main page for the maintenance category. At the top of this page is a table of contents and magically under here there's a link for braking system (or just scroll down the page to the braking system section!). Each of these sections is known as a subcategory of the maintenance category

In the braking section you will find a list of all articles related to maintaining the braking system. Hey presto, under this heading is the check ABS error codes article. Happy days......

Category Tips

If what you need isn't there on the category page don't despair just yet. This page is maintained by hand and it's possible that people who haven't been following the content posting guidelines have posted the article but not linked it from this page.

Click on the section heading and it will take you to an automagically generated list of all articles in that sub category

How do I post content

Content is the be all and end all of this project

We welcome content from out members so please feel free to join in!

Specific information on how to create and organise content on this wiki can be found in the article Posting Content

For more basic/general information on how to drive a wikipedia site see the help section below


How do I edit content

If an article is plain wrong then please feel free to correct it

However, if something is not "the way I would have done it" then please do not edit the article to your method. This kind of editing could go on ad-infinitum and is not productive

Instead either make an addendum to the article with "Another method" type content or use the discussion page for your comments


Member Pages

Because we are a small and hopefully friendly community we can re-purpose some of the existing features to suit our setup

The Wiki software being used provides each user with two pages accessed from the top of each and every page

Feel free to add links to your profile page and your "project" page to your forum signature. This will give other users an easy way to see who you are and what you're doing.


Member Profiles

Clicking on your username will bring you to a public profile page. Here you can fill in any personal information, car information or anything else you want to publish. As with everything on the wiki this is publicly available to everyone so take extreme care if you think about posting sensitive or personal information

If you want you profile listed in the "Member Profiles" section from the main page add the following tag to the top of your page

[[Category:User profiles]]


Member projects

Next to your username there is a second link, "My Talk". In the real world this is intended to be a place where people can have conversations with you. In our smaller world we have a forum for this (remember you must be a registered forum user to access the wiki editorial features!) This leaves a blank space which you have access to that serves no purpose. This is a suitable place to create a blogesque "Project" section for things you are doing with the car.

If you want you project listed in the "Member Projects" section from the main page add the following tag to the top of your page

[[Category:User projects]]

One point of note. If you are doing a project that hasn't already been covered please consider a whole new page for this with a link to it from your "project" page. A personal note from myself, two_OH_five. As the instigator of this wiki I have created pages for all of the major activities I've carried out on the car recently in the hope that the information is of use to others. This is all linked together off of my project page Two_OH_five


Finally note that although you may edit other users talk and profile pages we will take a dim view on users who do this!


Help

Learning how to use the Wiki editing software is not too tough.

Generally speaking the little buttons at the top of the edit window are sufficient to get you through most editing requirements. Make sure you use the preview button plenty before submitting content and you should be OK. Feel free to look at the source for existing pages before adding your own

If you need more specific information on usage of the wiki editor or more advanced topics consult the User's Guide for information.

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