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About Wiki.theppn
Wiki.theppn is a free encyclopedia and database on all Asian music and culture that is being written collaboratively by people from around the world. It is part of the Dedicated Asian Music Network (D.A.M.N.) and has been online since September 2004. See Wiki.theppn:About for more info.
Communication Options
Questions and comments specific to pages can be addressed using the discussion link at the top of that page in the Wiki. General questions can be addressed using the discussion link at the top of this page.
You can also take it to the Wiki Conversation section of the D.A.M.N. forums.
See also the Wiki.theppn:Notices for announcements and other helpful information.
Enabling Asian Fonts
This Wiki uses Kanji on many pages. If you see a bunch of question marks in the articles, you do not have these fonts installed and are not getting the full experience of this site. The good news is that most common operating systems have many languages and fonts built in, and it's just a matter of enabling them somewhere in the "Language" section of the system control panel. Below is a brief rundown of how to enable Asian fonts on your operating system.
Windows XP
Go to the Control Panel and open the Regional and Language Options. Navigate to the Languages tab and then check off the box that says "Install files for East Asian languages" in the "Supplemental language support" section . Press OK and Windows will setup the required files that will allow you to view Japanese, Chinese and Korean text (alongside your primary Windows language). If you installed or upgraded Windows off an installation CD, it might be needed to complete the process.
Apple
No setup should be necessary if you are running Mac OS X.
Linux
Many popular Linux distributions, including SuSE and Kubuntu, already have Asian fonts installed by default.
Arch Linux
Arch Linux, by default, does not. Install the ttf-arphic-uming and ttf-arphic-ukai packages with the following command: (NOTE: You must already be logged in as root)
# pacman -Sy ttf-arphic-uming ttf-arphic-ukai
For additional help using Pacman, refer to the the official Arch Linux Wiki
Wikipedia.org Tutorials
This Wiki is powered by the MediaWiki software which also powers other sites like the popular Wikipedia. The following off-site articles on Wikipedia.org contain basic guidance and information about reading, authoring, and participating which can also be applied towards this effort on this Wiki.
Using The Wiki
- How to search for an article
- How to use talk pages
- How to use the Recent Changes page
- How to use the Related Changes page
- How to use the Go button
- How to log in
Modifying A Page
- How to edit a page, including markup details.
- How to start a new page
- How to add images to pages
- How to use redirect pages
- How to revert a page to an earlier version
- How to create pages for topics with several different definitions
- How to add boilerplate text for readers
- How to use tables
- How to use categories
- How to rename (move) a page
- How to delete pages/images/categories
- How to link together Wikipedia articles in different languages
- How to link to sister projects
- How to edit an article so long that you can't edit
- How to produce graphics for pages
