Help:Knitting Patterns

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Contents 1 Finding the Knitting Patterns 2 Adding a Knitting Pattern to the KnitWiki 2.1 Check for Wanted Pages 2.2 Create the New Page 2.3 Edit the New Page 2.3.1 The Basic Code 2.4 Upload Your Images 3 Those Other Red Links 4 Other Articles of Interest

Finding the Knitting Patterns

All the knitting pattern categories in the KnitWiki are listed in the knitting pattern category page

Individual knitting patterns can be found in each subcategory.

Adding a Knitting Pattern to the KnitWiki

Before adding a knitting pattern please check the appropriate subcategories in the knitting pattern category page to make sure your knitting pattern is not already there.

If your knitting pattern isn't already there you can add it.

Check for Wanted Pages

First, check the wanted page category to see if there is a link to your pattern (in the case of vintage patterns. There probably wouldn't be a link to original patterns from another page unless you put it there). If there is, click on the link and you will be taken to the edit section for that page.

Create the New Page

If there is no link to your knitting pattern you can create it as follows.

Type the following url into your browser:

http://knitting-and.com/wiki/

followed by the name of the pattern you would like to add. Please use capital letters at the beginning of each word, and an underscore or space between words. Do not use an ampersand "&" as these will break the code and your page content will not show properly.

I'm going to add a pattern called "Sample Knitting Pattern" so my url looks like this:
 

This will take you to an intermediate page that asks you if you want to search for the page title in other pages, or edit the missing page. To edit the page, click on the link that looks like this: "".

Edit the New Page

Once you have clicked on the link a page will pop up that looks like this (using my Sample Knitting Pattern page as an example):

All the code for your knitting pattern will be typed in the box

The Basic Code

All knitting patterns in the KnitWiki are formatted with the following text. (For more information on what all those equal signs do, plus other ways to format your text and images, see Help:Formatting).

[[image:photo_of_your_pattern.jpg]] 

== Instructions ==

Text instructions for knitting your pattern written in plain text. 

1st row: Knit

2nd row: Knit

etc

[[image:chart-for-your-pattern.gif]]
  
== Additional Information ==
 
Add information that people who try this pattern might be interested in, including links to
articles that are in the wiki, or new articles that someone else might like to write. See my 
example below for details. 
 
== External Links ==
 
Links outside the wiki that might be of interest. 
 
For example, here is a link to the home page of this website. It begins with the url and finishes         
with the words I want to link to that page:
 
[http://www.knitting-and.com Knitting-and.com home page]
 
Finally, every knitting pattern should end with this code so that it is listed correctly in the      
appropriate stitch pattern category: 
 
[[category:Pattern Category Name|Your pattern name typed in  plain text]]

For a list of all knitting pattern categories see the official list of knitting pattern categories for the KnitWiki project

I'm going to add a hat pattern called Sample Knitting Pattern

In the edit box I have written the following code:

[[image:sample_hat_pattern.jpg]] 

== Instructions ==

Text instructions for knitting my pattern written in plain text. 

Cast on XXXX stitches

1st row: Knit

2nd row: Knit

etc
  
== Additional Information ==
 
[[Knitting_In_The_Round|How to knit in the round]]
 
[[Using_Double_Pointed_Needles|Knitting with double pointed needles]]
 
== External Links ==
 
[http://www.knitting-and.com/knitting/patterns/hats/knut-hat.html The real pattern for this hat is 
 actually on Knitting-and.com]
 
[[category:Help|Sample Knitting Pattern]]

When I click save this creates the "Sample Knitting Pattern" page with links to upload the images. You can see that where I typed [[image:sample-hat-pattern.jpg]] a picture has not yet appeared. It has become a red link to image:sample-hat-pattern.jpg. Red links mean that the page or image you have linked to does not yet exist.

Upload Your Images

To upload your image, click on the red link for the image you would like to upload. This will take you to the file upload page.

Using my sample knitting pattern example, I clicked on the red link for image:Sample-hat-pattern.jpg and have been taken to the upload page:

Click the browse button and a window will pop up so that you can choose the file you want to upload. Make sure the extension on the file you are uploading, and the extension of the destination file are the same. For example, both my files are in jpg format.

Then, fill in the summary box with any information you think is important. You might want to put the source of the photo, who owns the copyright if someone else has given you permission to use their work, or a note about the photo. The image below shows how I filled in the form to upload the image for my Sample Knitting Pattern page.

Click the upload file button and you will be taken to a new page showing your image with your comments underneath it, the history of the image (who has changed it and so on), and a list of all the pages that link to your image.

If your stitch pattern has a chart then you should repeat this process for the chart image as well. If not, you're finished!

Here is an image showing my finished Sample Knitting Pattern

Those Other Red Links

At the bottom of my sample knitting pattern you can see red links to How to knit in the round and Knitting with double pointed needles

These links are red because the articles do not yet exist. Linking to articles that don't exist will make them appear in the wanted page category and if someone else writes the article it will already be linked to from your stitch pattern.

Linking to a nonexistent article is a good idea for several reasons:

1. If someone is looking for an article to write, but they don't know what to write about they can visit the wanted page category for inspiration
2. You won't have to keep checking the KnitWiki to see if someone has written something you should link to in your article
3. If someone is reading your article and they click on a link to a nonexistent page about a topic they know a lot about, they might decide to write a new article on that topic.

Other Articles of Interest

• Knitwiki:Copyrights
• Help:Formatting
• Help:Images
• Help:Knitting_Charts The official knitting chart format for the KnitWiki project
• Help:Links
• Help:Tables