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Jamesm: Undo revision 39953 by Independent (talk)

2020-12-14T17:08:58Z

Undo revision 39953 by Independent (talk)

2020-12-14T09:14:34Z

Editing Tips

2020-11-19T10:23:46Z

Editing Tips

2020-11-19T10:16:14Z

Editing Tips

2020-11-18T23:21:21Z

Contact Report Layout Template

2020-11-18T22:56:16Z

Contact Report Layout Template

2020-11-17T13:15:08Z

Condensed navigation listing

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Contact Report Layout Template

2020-11-17T13:13:18Z

Editing Tips

2020-11-17T13:12:18Z

Introduction

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 # There is now also [http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/w/convertben2.php another tool for merging separate German and English articles into the same Contact Report].
 # The easiest way to edit a page is by using ‘regular expressions’ locally in word processor on unformatted page code. In the ‘Find & Replace’ dialogue, special characters can be inserted allowing for complicated finding and replacing automatically. Take care with this editing method if the German and English are together. [https://help.libreoffice.org/3.5/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions Libreoffice regular exprssions]
 == Contact Report Layout Template ==

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 # There is now also [http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/w/convertben2.php another tool for merging separate German and English articles into the same Contact Report].
 # The easiest way to edit a page is by using ‘regular expressions’ locally in word processor on unformatted page code. In the ‘Find & Replace’ dialogue, special characters can be inserted allowing for complicated finding and replacing automatically. Take care with this editing method if the German and English are together. [https://help.libreoffice.org/3.5/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions Libreoffice regular exprssions]
 == Contact Report Layout Template ==

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 # You can now use [http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/w/convertgaiaguys.php the new gaiaguys-article-to-Wiki-table convertor] - it is not perfect but helps save some editing time. It is useful for creating a MediaWiki table from a combined German-English translation whereby the lines are alternatively in English, German, English, German.
 # There is now also [http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/w/convertben2.php another tool for merging separate German and English articles into the same Contact Report].
-# The easiest way to edit a page is by using ‘regular expressions’ locally in word processor on unformatted page code. In the ‘Find & Replace’ dialogue, special characters can be inserted allowing for complicated finding and replacing automatically. [https://help.libreoffice.org/3.5/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions Libreoffice regular exprssions]
+# The easiest way to edit a page is by using ‘regular expressions’ locally in word processor on unformatted page code. In the ‘Find & Replace’ dialogue, special characters can be inserted allowing for complicated finding and replacing automatically. Take care with this editing method if the German and English are together. [https://help.libreoffice.org/3.5/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions Libreoffice regular exprssions]
 == Contact Report Layout Template ==

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 == Editing Tips ==
-# The easiest way to create a new page is to create a link to a new page then click on that link<ref>Make sure that the link does not contain quotation marks, because otherwise you will run into problems.</ref>.
+# The easiest way to create a page is to create a link to a new page then click on that link<ref>Make sure that the link does not contain quotation marks, because otherwise you will run into problems.</ref>.
 # You can now use [http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/w/convertgaiaguys.php the new gaiaguys-article-to-Wiki-table convertor] - it is not perfect but helps save some editing time. It is useful for creating a MediaWiki table from a combined German-English translation whereby the lines are alternatively in English, German, English, German.
 # There is now also [http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/w/convertben2.php another tool for merging separate German and English articles into the same Contact Report].
 == Contact Report Layout Template ==

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 == Contact Report Layout Template ==
 In 2019 a tool was kindly created to help with this process: http://www.futureofmankind.co.uk/w/convertben2.php<br>
 Below is the manual advice (possibly outdated) - please refer to [[Contact Report 001]] which we use as our benchmark.

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-It look complicated because it's lots of necessary information condensed into a small space. It's relatively self explanatory, and after making a few of them a process emerges. It's condensed into a small space because most readers don't care about it, but it is necessary information about origination.<br>
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 == Contact Report 000 Translation ==
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 == Other Tools ==

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 == Introduction ==
-We could really use all the help we can get and can hardly keep up with Eduard, seldom research it thoroughly. Thank you for taking an interest in helping us present the Billy Meier and FIGU information in English.
+Thank you for the interest in helping us present the Billy Meier and FIGU information in English.
 This Wiki uses technology that allows anyone to add or edit content, we work together, and you don't need to be a computer programmer to learn how it is done. The technology is called [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki].