A) You will land on an existing Mahalo search result page. That search result page will either be managed by a fellow Mahalo user, if not, you can choose to become the Page Manager for that search result. Just click the option to "Claim This Page" that appears in yellow across the top of the page and in a box down the left column. Once you've claimed the page, it's yours to manage and update.

Or B) Your search result has not been created by Mahalo, now you have the option to build the page from scratch. Continue on to learn more about how to build a Mahalo Page.

Text: This will allow you to just write some information on the page. It will mostly be used on more content-heavy pages like How To's or Video Game Walkthroughs.

List: This will add a numbered or bulleted list to your page. These will often be useful as timelines, if you want to list, for example, biographical information on a historical figure, a director's complete filmography or all the albums released by a band.

Blogs: This will pull in a Mahalo blog search on the topic of your page.

Map: This will import a map from Google Maps. If the title of your page is a location, the map will automatically display that location. If you want to specify a location for your map that's different from the title of the page, click "Edit" and enter the name under the "Location" box. You should also include a brief description of the area depicted in the map and indicate why you have placed it on the page.

Stock Quotes: If you are making a page about a company, you may want to include a stock quote in your links. Choosing a stock quote section will automatically pull in financial information for a company of your choice. To enter an appropriate stock symbol, click the "Edit" button and then enter it into the appropriate box. The stock ticker should display automatically.

The Mahalo Top 7: This adds a Top 7 to your page. You can then fill in the Top 7 with the best links from the page by clicking the "7" button in blue next to each link. A Top 7 is not needed on your page...Only include it if you have 5 or more VERY high quality links that you consider essential to have at the very top of the page.

DOUBLE BRACKETS

To make a word or phrase into an internal link to another Mahalo page, put double brackets around it.

[[Mahalo]] is an Internet [[search engine]] will look like this:

Mahalo is an Internet search engine

Put double brackets around all proper nouns, years, dates and any other terms you think would make an interesting Mahalo search.

To refer to a term differently in the text than what the page is called, you can use a pipe to separate the term, placing the page title first and the text second like this: [[New York State|NY]] will look like this: NY and inlink to the page titled New York State.

BOLD AND ITALICS

To use italics, put two apostrophes on either side of the word or phrase you want italicized. Here is an example:

''The Great Gatsby'' will look like this: The Great Gatsby

To use boldface, put three apostrophes on either side of the word or phrase you want bolded. Here is an example:

'''The Great Gatsby''' will look like this: The Great Gatsby

CITATIONS IN TEXT

If you want to cite a fact you are writing in a text section of a Mahalo page (as opposed to a Fast Facts section), you can use <ref> to designate a link. Take a look at this sentence as an example.

[[Barack Obama]] is the 44th President of the [[United States]].<ref>http://www.mahalo.com/barack-obama</ref>

Now here's how that would look on a Mahalo page:

Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States.http://www.mahalo.com/barack-obama

Click that footnote number and it will take you to the bottom of the page, where your URL is now listed as a "reference."

A citation is NEEDED whenever you:

1. Use a quote
2. State a statistical fact
3. Paraphrase information from another source
4. Utilize someone else's opinions and interpretations
5. Are making a medical, legal, or financial claim
6. State specific and detailed information which is not commonly known
   
   

Citations are NOT NEEDED when you:

1. Are stating "common knowledge." A general rule of thumb is, if you are not sure whether something is common knowledge or not, it probably isn't. Common knowledge statements are claims that are generally accepted and known in a given community.http://www.uta.fi/FAST/PK6/REF/commknow.html
2. Are giving your own interpretations. In general, subjective and first person writing is not condoned on Mahalo. However, the nature of How To's demands that writers interpret information and present it in their own voice. Within reason, then, interpretive statements are allowed—but should be tempered with sourced opinion.
   
   

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