Help:New page

Before starting a new page, search to see whether someone has written a similar page already.

Page creation via links
Internal links to non-existing pages are typically created in preparation of creating the page, and/or to encourage other people to do so. Typically these will appear as red links rather than blue, depending on user settings. Such a link points to the edit mode of the non-existing page, which allows creating it, just like editing a blank page. Before following the edit link, decide whether you want to give the new page the suggested name. If not, first edit the link on the referring page.

So, to start a new page, just click a corresponding red link. If you cannot find a link to the desired title yet, you may provide the link yourself, by adding it to a related page or index page.

Other ways
You can also start a new page that is not linked to yet. Note however, there's a catch with that -

the orphan problem:

Links on related pages are not only convenient for navigation, but also make people aware of the new page (those who happen to read a related page, but also those who watch such a page).

As with every wiki, linking is the essential glue of Clean City. Without linking, Clean City would be nothing but a desintegrated collection of lonely pages.

To prevent your new page from being such an "orphan", you should make sure to link to it from at least one other place in Clean City. It is a good idea to find, or provide, a link to the new page before actually creating the page, just as described in the previous section.

Via URL
You can enter the edit form of any existing or new page by typing the URL directly. An easy way to produce the URL is editing the last part of the URL of another page in the same project.

Via "create article" box
-- not yet implemented --

A new feature for MediaWiki 1.5 is the article creation box. This can be added to any page making it simpler to start a new page, since you can type the title into the form and it will be created.

Via search form
About creating new articles from the search form, see Help:Searching.