Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26535270-20171119120155/@comment-30967537-20171122192925

Hi.

I stumbled upon your post, if you want to contact me post a message on my wall.

As suggested by Graham the best way to start tinkering with the Wiki is to copy an existing page to your profile and edit it there, you'll make a lot of mistakes, we all do! Do the same with the relevant templates. Whilst editing your new page ... If it's all working ok you can now change the new template in your area without worrying about changing something important on the Wiki
 * Edit the relevant (Cars) page
 * Copy the contents
 * Create a new page in your area e.g. User:RusTORK/MyGarage
 * Paste the copied data
 * Click on the small arrow half-way up on the right of the screen to the right of the scrollbar
 * Click on Show list of used templates
 * Click on edit for the relevant templates, generally the R/ template
 * As above, copy and paste it to a template with the same name in your user area
 * Back in the edit window, edit references to that template to point to the new template in your user area
 * Test the changes
 * Don't edit somebody else's stuff without their permission!
 * Don't edit live stuff unless you know what you're doing!

With regards to compiling all the data, that could be a bit more complicated. I use Power Query to export data from the Wiki and then do a lot of processing and formatting of the exported data to create data for other pages. But I'm not sure if you want to start with PQ yet, it can be quite complicated BUT it does open up lots of new data opportunities.

Feel free to contact me if you need any general Wiki help or Power Query help.

Good luck.

Nick