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Psychotherapedia is a Wiki, meaning that anyone can edit any unprotected page, and improve articles immediately for all readers. Normally you do not even need to register to do this, but Psychotherapedia is Wiki site that can only be accessed with the permission of the administrator(s). Anyone who has edited is known as a Wiki editor and no matter how trivial the edit may seem, can be proud that they have helped make Psychotherapedia what it is – all those edits add up!

Editing

Editing most Psychotherapedia pages is easy. Simply click on the "edit" tab at the top of a Psychotherapedia page (or on a section-edit link). This will bring you to a new page with a text box containing the editable text of the current page.

In this box, you can type in the text that you want to add, using wiki markup to format the text and add other elements like images and tables. A quick reference to wiki markup can be opened in a new window by clicking 'Editing help', found near the 'save page' button.

Never start a line with a leading space unless you want the special formatting it causes. Paragraphs can be separated with a blank line.

When you have finished editing, you should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the legend. To see how the page looks with your edits, press the "Show preview" button. To see the differences between the page with your edits and the previous version of the page, press the "Show changes" button. If you're satisfied with what you see, be bold and press the "Save page" button. Your changes will immediately be visible to all Psychotherapedia users.

The Wikipedia/Psychotherapedia community has developed style guidelines to make articles and facts appear in a standardized form, and Psychotherapedia easier to use as a whole.

If you add information to a page, please provide references, as unreferenced facts are subject to removal in Psychotherapedia.

Talk (discussion) pages

Talk pages are similar to articles in that they also have a "new section" tab to start a new section or edit the whole page.

Minor edits

A check to the "minor edit" box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the version with your edit and the previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, etc. A minor edit is a version that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. The "minor edit" option is one of several options available only to registered users.

Major edits

All editors are encouraged to be bold, but there are several things that a user can do to ensure that major edits are performed smoothly. Before engaging in a major edit, a user should consider discussing proposed changes on the article discussion/talk page. During the edit, if doing so over an extended period, the tag can reduce the likelihood of an edit conflict. Once the edit has been completed, the inclusion of an edit summary will assist in documenting the changes. These steps will help all to ensure that major edits are well received by the Psychotherapedia community.

A major edit should be reviewed to confirm that it is consensual to all concerned editors. Therefore, any change that affects the meaning of an article is major (not minor), even if the edit is a single word.

There are no necessary terms to which you have to agree when doing major edits, but the recommendations above have become best practice. If you do it your own way, the likelihood of your edits being reedited may be higher.

When performing a large edit, it is suggested you periodically, and before pressing 'save page', copy your edits into an external text editor (preferably one without formatting, such as Notepad). This ensures that in the case of a browser crash you will not lose your work. If you are adding substantial amounts of work, it is also a good idea to save changes in stages.

Policies and conventions

Make sure that you submit information which is relevant to the specific purpose of the wiki, or your content might be deleted. You can always use the talk pages to ask questions or check to see if your idea will be accepted. Please make note of the license your contributions will be covered with.

Psychotherapedia Formatting Help

You can format your text using wiki markup. This consists of normal characters like asterisks, single quotes or equal signs which have a special function in the wiki, sometimes depending on their position. For example, to format a word in italic, you include it in two pairs of single quotes like ''this''.

Text formatting markup

''italic''

'''bold'''

'''''bold & italic'''''

<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>

= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======

Text above
----
Text below

* Start each line
* with an [[Wikipedia:asterisk|asterisk]] (*).
** More asterisks gives deeper
*** and deeper levels.
* Line breaks<br />don't break levels.
*** But jumping levels creates empty space.
Any other first character ends the list.

# Start each line
# with a [[Wikipedia:Number_sign|number sign]] (#).
## More number signs gives deeper
### and deeper
### levels.
# Line breaks<br />don't break levels.
### But jumping levels creates empty space.
# Blank lines

# end the list and start another.
Any other first character also
ends the list.

;item 1
: definition 1
;item 2
: definition 2-1
: definition 2-2

: Single indent
:: Double indent
::::: Multiple indent

# one
# two
#* two point one
#* two point two
# three
#; three item one
#: three def one
# four
#: four def one
#: this looks like a continuation
#: and is often used
#: instead<br />of <nowiki><br /></nowiki>
# five
## five sub 1
### five sub 1 sub 1
## five sub 2

Start each line with a space.
Text is preformatted and
markups can be done

Paragraphs

Psychotherapedia ignores single line breaks. To start a new paragraph, leave an empty line. You can force a line break within a paragraph with the HTML tags <br />.

HTML tags

Some HTML tags are allowed in Psychotherapedia, for example <code>, <div>, <span> and <font>. These apply anywhere you insert them.

<u>underscore</u>

<ref name="Norcross">Norcross, J. C. (Ed.). (2002).
''Psychotherapy relationships that work: Therapist contributions
and responsiveness to patients.'' New York: Oxford 
University Press.</ref>

== References ==

<references/>

<del>Strikethrough</del>

or

<s>Strikethrough</s>

<code>Source code</code>

or

<tt>Fixed width text</tt>

text above
text above
<blockquote>blockquote</blockquote>
text below
text below

<!-- This is a comment -->
Comments are only visible
in the edit window.

<pre> Text is '''preformatted''' and
''markups'' '''''cannot''''' be done</pre>

 Text is '''preformatted''' and
''markups'' '''''cannot''''' be done

<pre style="color:red">
Text is '''preformatted'''
with a style and
''markups'' '''''cannot''''' be done
</pre>

Text is '''preformatted'''
with a style and
''markups'' '''''cannot''''' be done

HTML symbols

An HTML symbol entity is a sequence of characters that produces one particular character. For example, → produces a right arrow "→" and — produces an em dash "—". HTML symbol entities are allowed in Psychotherapedia and are sometimes used in advanced editing for two main reasons: to insert characters not normally available on keyboards:

© → ©

δ → δ

and to prevent the parser from interpreting and displaying HTML tags and symbols:

€ → €

€ → €

&lt;span style="color:green;">Green&lt;/span> → <span style="color:green;">Green</span>

<span style="color:green;">Green</span> → Green

The following is a list of characters that can be produced using HTML symbols. Hover any character to find out the symbol that produces it. Some symbols not available in the current font will appear as empty squares.

Other formatting

Beyond the text formatting markup shown above, here are some other formatting references:

• Links
• Tables