Contributing

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Welcome to the Goons with Spoons Recipe Submission Tutorial!

This page will hopefully help you in the process of submitting your first of many recipes here on the Goons with Spoons wiki.

The very first thing you will need to do is create a page for your recipe. If you look over to the left, where the menu is, you will see a search bar. When you've decided on what you want to name your recipe as type it into the search bar and press go like this:


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If no one has used the same name as you for their recipe, typing your recipe's name into the search bar will take you to a new screen informing you that the recipe's page has not been found. Next to that warning you will see an option that says you can create this page. Click create this page as shown below.


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When you click the create this page link you will be taken to the main editing window. This is where all the information for your entire recipes page is saved, stored, and edited. All content needs to be entered into this window. To make sure you are in the right place, the window should look just like this:

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Hopefully this is the page you see. If you don't go back one step and make sure you did indeed click "Create this page". Now that you are at the edit page of your brand new entry submission we need to add something don't we? The first thing you will want to add in the entry window is the categories it will belong too. Categories in the edit window are entered in the form of [ [category:Categories Name] ] minus the spaces. There are many categories and you will most like want to sort your recipe by more than one. Some categories to sort by are: Author Name, Main Ingredients, Food Type, Meal Type, and by Cuisine Type

So for example I could sort my recipe by my name (Jpfan01), then by cuisine type (Thai), then by the ingredient (Chicken), and finally the food type (Noodle). As an example here is the category sorting I did for my Pad Thai Recipe so that you can see the formatting. Following the categories you will also want to add a submitted by entry which is also pictured. Simply replace my name with yours.

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