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To make our resources easily navigable for community members, please follow these guidelines for creating, editing, and maintaining articles in our knowledge base. Each howdoi page should answer a question (ex. How do I find a list of Riverdale Google Calendars). This is so that articles stayed focused on the question at hand.
To make our resources easily navigable for community members, please follow these guidelines for creating, editing, and maintaining articles in our knowledge base. Each howdoi page should answer a question (ex. How do I find a list of Riverdale Google Calendars). This is so that articles stayed focused on the question at hand.


== Top of the article ==
== Before you begin writing your article ==
Every article should start with the <code><nowiki>{{abox}}</nowiki></code> template. With this template, you will fill in the following information to correctly categorize and maintain articles in our wiki.
Every article should start with the <code><nowiki>{{abox}}</nowiki></code> template. With this template, you will fill in the following information to correctly categorize and maintain articles in our wiki.
[[File:Aboxsample.png|none|thumb]]
[[File:Aboxsample.png|none|thumb]]
To use this template, you can either start typing <code><nowiki>{{abox}}</nowiki></code> and then search for the "abox" template, or you can click [https://howdoi.riverdale.edu/wiki/Template:Abox here for the abox template]. Once you copy and paste the code, click on '''''Edit source''''', and then paste the block of text (for the template) at the top of your article.  
To use this template, you can either start typing <code><nowiki>{{abox}}</nowiki></code> and then search for the "abox" template, or you can click [https://howdoi.riverdale.edu/wiki/Template:Abox here for the abox template]. Once you copy and paste the code, click on '''''Edit source''''', and then paste the block of text (for the template) at the top of your article.  


==Article content==
==Writing your article==
* each page answers a single question -- e.g. how do I find a list of Riverdale Google Calendars
Each howdoi page should answer a question (ex. How do I find a list of Riverdale Google Calendars). This is so that articles stayed focused on the question at hand.
** it is not a catch-all for everything about a subject -- other question means another page
*** except for our Get help from Google page, which is a catch-all
* each page starts with an <nowiki>{{abox}} and ends with a {{CategoryTemplate}}</nowiki>
* each page starts with an <nowiki>{{abox}} and ends with a {{CategoryTemplate}}</nowiki>
* inline images (for instructions) are now added in a very particular way, with a variation of this code:<br>
* inline images (for instructions) are now added in a very particular way, with a variation of this code:<br>
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