Guidelines
This page provides guidelines for making contributions to Reckon Open, including:
- Editing etiquette
- Linking codes
- Creating a page
- Formatting codes
- Signature code
- Trackback and pingback
- Legal notice for contributed content
Editing etiquette
Do not hesitate to make changes. It is better to make an imperfect change than to leave something wrong or incomplete in place.
In particular:
- Please delete useless material, spam or vandalism. A revert facility can be accessed by clicking the "Track changes" button at the top of the page.
- Please make minor corrections as you spot errors, whether typos or more substantial.
- When contributing new content, focus on the substance of your point and assume that someone else will edit out your typos later.
Please read the legal notice for contributed content before posting substantive material.
A test page is available for experimenting with the linking and formatting codes.
Linking codes
To create a link within Reckon Open, simply enclose the name of the page that you want to link to within double square brackets. For example [[test page]] gives test page.
You can also link to external sites by placing the full URL (including http://) in double square brackets.
You can link to material elsewhere on the current page by prefixing the name of the "anchor" by a #. Anchors are automatically provided for the top of the page as Back to top, and for every heading in the page using the text of the heading as the anchor name (e.g. Linking codes). Additional anchors can be inserted in the text of the page by placing the anchor name on a stand-alone line prefixed by a single #.
A "display name" for a link can be inserted between the two closing square brackets. However, WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) links are usually best.
Alternative syntaxes used by other wiki engines (e.g. URL within single square brackets or display name after a space) or commonly used in plain text e-mail (e.g. full URL between angle brackets < and >) are also supported.
Creating a page
To create a new page, create a link to the desired page by placing its name between double square brackets in the text of a page intended to link to the new page, follow that link, and edit the content of the new page in the normal way.
Formatting codes
Basics:
- Leave a blank line between paragraphs.
- Minor heading lines start with "=".
- Bullet points start with "*".
- Indented paragraphs (e.g. comments, quotations) start with "->".
- A "+" at the beginning of a line provides a line break.
Formatting can be applied to short sections of text by using the following codes:
- [_Text to be formatted_] for strong formatting (usually rendered as bold).
- [*Text to be formatted*] for emphasis (usually rendered as italics).
Signature code
The special code --sig-- will be transformed into a signature and date stamp (as shown at the end of this paragraph). [Franck Fri Sep 24 11:06:08 2004]
Legal notice for contributed content
By posting content to Reckon Open you agree:
- Not to delete, modify or conceal this legal notice.
- To grant Reckon LLP a permanent royalty-free licence to copy, publish, modify or re-use any content which you submit to Reckon Open.
- Not to post any unlawful, defamatory, obscene, threatening, or abusive content; any content that incites discrimination, hate or violence; any content that infringes privacy rights; any content that infringes intellectual property, confidentiality or secrecy rights of others; or any knowingly incorrect or misleading information.
The following privacy policy applies:
- IP address details will be shown for contributions to Reckon Open from users who are not registered with Reckon Online, or who have not confirmed their registration. Contributions to Reckon Open from users logged in under a confirmed Reckon Online registration will be marked "Anonymous" (without IP address information) unless the user has chosen another nickname. Click here to register or to edit your details.
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Technical
The Blank Template page provides default text for new pages.
A periodic process deletes all versions of any pages which link to please delete this page, have not changed for several days, and are not reachable from the Reckon Open page.
This page is managed by Reckon LLP. Users are encouraged to contribute relevant views and links. Use the "Edit this page" or "Add a comment" button above to edit the text or to add comments and notes. Advice on making contributions (including trackback) is in the Guidelines.
Last changed by Franck at 5:49 PM on Friday 2 July 2010.