How to submit an article

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To add a new item, go back to the "Main Page" and choose "Current Chance News". This will bring up a page with the names of the articles already in the current chance news and a series of "items" for additional contributions. Choose "edit" from the top of the page. If "Item x" is the next available item, replace item x by the name of your contribution. This can be the name of your news article or a name that you choose. Next choose "Show Preview" from the bottom of the page and see if your name is o.k. If so choose "Save page" from the bottom of the page and you will have added your title to the table of contents for Current Chance News.

Then click on your title and a new page for your article will come up. Choose "edit" from the top of this page and put in your comments about the article. Then again choose "Show Preview" and if it is o.k. Choose "Save Page" and you will have contributed an article to the Current Chance News. You can find additional help for editing your new page from the Help on the sidebar.

To change an existing Chance News item, select the article from the table of contents and then choose "edit" from the top of the article. Then make your changes, check them with "Show Preview" and if they are o.k. "Save Page". But a brief indication of the change you made under the Summary bar at the bottom of the page.

Whenever changes are made in an article the previous page is saved on the "History" page at the top of the article's page. So if someone changes a page in a way that someone feels does not improve the original article they can always switch back to the original page. We would not expect this to happen very often.

Finally, at the top of each page you will see a "discussion page". You can use this to ask questions about the article. For general questions about the ChanceWiki use the "discussion page" at the top of the Main Page.