| How do I format my postings? |
| There is a full guide to how to add formatting to your entry in the Text Formatting Examples. This page also explains how to create links to other pages in the system whether they exist or not |
| What if I don't want to use that strange ASCII crap and just want to write HTML |
Yes you can. These tags are allowed: b i font small sub sup code em s strike strong var div center blockquote ul li table tr td th caption br p hr |
| How do I add a new review? |
| Click [Create a new page] and fill in the form. |
| It can't be that simple can it? |
| Well there are one or two other things to it but mostly that is it. If you can't quite see how something works and it isn't covered in this FAQ then get in touch |
| What are each of the boxes in the Main information of the add/edit page form for? |
| Content: is where the bulk of your review goes, Locales is where the restaurant is and categories is what sort of restaurant it is. |
| How do I fill in the Metadata section |
| Most of it should be self explanatorily however the following three fields can do with a little more explanation Map link: Multimap allow free linking to post code specific maps on their site so in this box you should enter a url in this form http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?scale=10000&pc=S37RX where the set of characters after the final '=' is the postcode with any spaces removed. 'OS X coordinate:' and 'OS Y coordinate:' They are for the Ordinance survey position for that point which the site uses for two things first displaying along with the equivalent Lat and Long which isn't a huge amount of use unless you plan to air-strike a restaurant for bad service, however the second use is for powering the "Find all things within X meters" feature which people might find useful. Please make sure you just enter just the numbers into the fields. You can get this data from a number of sources including the maps multimap generate from the above urls (it is under the map in the form "X:434600 m Y:387100 m"). Most mapping site generate it, though you might have to cough loudly while reading the appropriate licence statement (you do read the Ts and Cs on every site you use don't you :-) |
| What happens when I click submit |
| Your new page will automatically be added to all the appropriate categories and locales. Any links you put in with the [[Internal link]] notation will turn into hyper-links or have a question mark if they don't exist (users are encouraged to make things into links if they feel a separate page is in order even if they are going to leave it for another user to create that page later). |
| What if I have used Locales or Categories that don't yet exist |
| They will automatically added. |
| How will people know what I have done |
| All changes are noted in the recent changes system, in the box on the front page and in the rss feed. |
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