Mental Health Law Online:About
The following guidelines contain everything you'll need to start editing and creating pages on the WikiMentalHealth website.
If you are having bother, just email me on jhcwilson at hotmail.com
Editing a page
Any page except the Main Page can be edited. To edit any page which you are reading:
- Click "edit" at the top of the page.
- Make your changes.
- Click "save".
Adding a new page
Note that RED links are links to pages which do not yet exist. Click on a red link to create the page.
To add a new page of your own, make a link to your new page:
- Go to the page where your new page belongs (e.g. if you are adding a case, go to the caselaw index page).
- Click "edit".
- Add an internal link (see below) to your proposed page.
- Click "save".
Now make your new page:
- Click on the red link which you have created.
- Type your page.
- Click "save".
Adding an internal link (to another Wikimental page)
When editing the page, just place two square brackets at each side of the page name, e.g. [[Mental health caselaw]] becomes Mental health caselaw
Adding an external link (e.g. to Bailii)
The easy way:
- Just type in the full website address, e.g. http://www.bailii.org.uk becomes http://www.bailii.org.uk
The hard way:
- Enclose the website address with single square brackets.
- After the website address, leave a space and type the website name.
e.g. [http://www.bailii.org.uk The Bailii website] becomes The Bailii website
Adding section headings (like this one)
Enclose the section heading with == on either side, e.g. == Section heading ==.
Use === for sub-headings.
"Redirect" pages
These are used particularly for sections of the Mental Health Act. For example, the proper page for section 2 is MHA 1983 s2 but throughout the site it is often referred to as s2. To make this shorthand easier, the short-named page is a redirect to the long-named page. The 's2' page only contains the text: #REDIRECT[[MHA 1983 s2]] The redirect system could be used for any other synonyms.