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How do I create a repair wiki?

I am feeling very dense at this point.

I drove all over creation following the links on:

http://meta.ifixit.com/View/225/How+do+w...

And I am still unable to create a repair wiki.

This is what I want to be able to do, something like this: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Wiki/iPhone_...

All my attempts end up asking me for bullet text for step #1. No, if that's all there is, I am done making guides.

Please Wiki me.

Please, step by step, no detours.

TIA.

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Go to:

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Wiki/<Something>

Where <something> is what you want your title to be. It will tell you there's no article, but that you can create it. Create it.

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That said, don't make repair guides as wiki pages. I don't know if that's what you were going to do, but if it was, don't.

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Do you consider a diagnosis guide to be a repair guide? If you do, Kyle seems to disagree with you, suggesting I put my diagnostic wiki guide there...

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My automobile thermostat repair guide, currently in development, will only be added as a wiki. You can delete it if you want to. Or you can spend many hours converting it with the Guide Tool. It is probably a hundred steps long, and I will NOT be using the so called Guide Tool. For anything I do.

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How about this, you give me the exact format for the file for a Guide, and I will write a script that converts my text file into a guide file(s). Then it takes me no time to convert, and we are both happy. The Guide Tool is an unbelievable waste of my time.

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Diagnosis pages are totally better off as wikis.

The Guide tool is built around step-by-step image based instructions. For text based instructions, I can see how it's unwieldy. I'm not one of our tech writers, but I bet we would love to have your repair manual on our site however it's formatted. And in the future someone else might document your steps with pictures and format it into a guide! That's the best part of iFixit being completely editable, each user just does what they can.

That's also a interesting idea about a tool to go from text files to iFixit Guide. We don't use files for our Guides, but I can imagine code that reads a formatted text file and then inserts the data into our database. Thanks for the idea!

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We've actually got a plain-text import tool that we use around here. We didn't make it public because we didn't want to confuse people, but we could potentially make it available to use when starting a new repair guide.

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