Contributing to the Financial Modelling Wiki
Why contribute
Contribute to share information that is useful for people that work with or use financial models. Do not contribute to promote something - though you can contribute in your own name or the name of a business that you represent, and you can mention that in your user page.
How to contribute
In general
The specifics of contributing to this wiki are mostly like contributing to Wikipedia. This page outlines how to perform some common actions.
Creating an account, logging in and logging out
You do not need to create an account to contribute to this wiki, but you are welcome to.
To perform these actions, click either "Create account", "Log in" or "Log out" as appropriate (each of these is near the top right) and follow the prompts.
Editing an existing page
Open the page in your browser, then click either "Edit" or "Edit source" (each of these are near the top right).
- Edit opens a visual editor. Most people will find this simplest for editing text (including headings, bold / italic / code blocks etc, lists and tables. You cannot embed or change images, GIFs, videos or spreasheets this way.
- Edit sources opens a source editor. The markup language is called wikitext. It is similar to HTML. People who are familiar with using any markup language or code will probably find it simple to edit the source, and copy/adapt new elements from other pages. You can embed and changes images, GIFs, videos and spreadsheets this way - refer to the section below on specifics for the Financial Modelling Wiki.
Creating a new page
Enter the title into the search box (near the top right corner), click the red link that appears, and follow the prompts.
Specifics for the Financial Modelling Wiki
This wiki is unusual in the need to embed spreadsheets. We were unaware of a suitable native solution and have implemented a custom approach.
- Save the workbook as an Excel .XLSX file. The XLSX requirement is a security measure - no macros, please (although it is fine to include code within wiki pages).
- Upload the spreadsheet to a publicly viewable location of a cloud service on an account that we trust.
- Tweet us if you are not already aware of anyone you know that has a trusted account.
[To be continued - I had started writing how to embed pictures/GIFs/videos/spreadsheets]