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To create a page, add a New Link to an existing page and save the page. Then click on your link and you will be able to create the new page, Preview it, and Save it.
For details on how to create and link to subpages, see HelpOnEditing/SubPages.
The following variables are substituted when a page is finally saved. Note that they'll appear unreplaced in the preview!
| @PAGE@ | Name of the page (useful for template pages) |
| @DATE@ | Current date in the system's format |
| @TIME@ | Current date and time in the user's format |
| @USERNAME@ | Just the user's name (or his domain/IP) |
| @USER@ | Signature "-- loginname" |
| @SIG@ | Dated Signature "-- loginname date time" |
| @MAILTO@ | A fancy mailto: link with the user's data |
Note that saving template or form definition pages does not expand variables. Other than that, variable expansion is very global and happens anywhere on the page, including code displays, comments, processing instructions and other "special" areas of a page you might think are excluded.
If the user has a homepage2 indicated by the 
icon, a backup of save/preview text is saved there as an attachment named moin-editor-backup.txt. So if you preview often, you will keep your changes, even if your browser crashes.
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1 If the wiki administrator changed the default settings, rules for what names are template pages might be different.
2 Having a homepage means you're logged in under a name that is also the name of an existing wiki page.