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Introduction
This article explains the bare minimum basics of page editing. It is not intended as an exhaustive resource, nor will this article fully explain even a single aspect of wikicode. This article contains simple notes on the most commonly used elements of editing.
For a complete and fully detailed description of all aspects of editing, consider reading the Mother of All Editing pages at Wikipedia.com. A portion of that information is shown here, with adjustments for our content.
Text Formatting
| Code | Explanation | Code Examples | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 blank lines | forces a line break. | ||
| 2 blank lines | forces a paragraph break. | ||
| : | indent the left margin of an entire paragraph. This is used mostly on talk pages when replying to another users comments. | John made a comment :and Bob replied to it | John made a comment and Bob replied to it |
| '' | Italicize | See us use ''italics''? | See us use italics? |
| ''' | Bold | When editing a wiki, be '''bold'''! | When editing a wiki, be bold! |
| ''''' | Bold Italics | Periwinkle, author of '''''How to serve Goblins''''' | Periwinkle, author of How to serve Goblins |
<blockquote> | indent both margins and draw a box around it, used when quoting a source document | <blockquote>In all my days of adventuring, I had seen nothing like it. Rising out of the lake, like a vision of loveliness, stood a dryad! --Dundar Bilgebottom </blockquote> | In all my days of adventuring, I had seen nothing like it. Rising out of the lake, like a vision of loveliness, stood a dryad! --Dundar Bilgebottom |
Links
| Link Code Diagram | Explanation | Code Examples | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| [[page name]] | a standard link requiring no extra effort | [[Main Page]] [[Antonica]] | Main Page Antonica |
| [[page name|displayed text]] | a link for a page where the page name and the actual thing being described are slightly different. This is common for articles where the full name has a preceding insignificant word, such as A, An, or The. | [[Thundering Steppes|The Thundering Steppes]] | The Thundering Steppes |
| [[page name#Header|displayed text]] | a link to a specific section of another Wiki page, with a different displayed text. Useful for pointing to sections of other pages by their name | [[Main Page#Other Important Pages|Other Important Pages]] [[Quests (WoW)#Repeatable, Daily, and PvP Quests|Daily Quests]] | Other Important Pages Daily Quests |
| [[Category:category name]] | places the current page into a category | [[Category:Planning]] | |
| [[Category:category name|alternate page name]] | places the current page into a category but specifies that this page should be sorted slightly different than the page name would suggest. This is very good when linking a template to a category of templates, so that they do not all sort under T for template! | [[Category:Help Pages|New Editors]] | Places this page in the Help Pages category, but sorts it under N for New Editors instead of H for Help:New Editors |
| [[:Category:category name|displayed text]] | places a link to a category rather than placing this page in that category! | [[:Category:Help Pages|More help pages]] | More help pages |
| {{:pagename}} | Includes the contents of pagename into this page at display time. | [[:User:FlorenceSopher/Sandbox/To do]] | example would be too big to display here... |
| #REDIRECT any_link | redirects any user trying to link to this page, sending them to the page named by any_link, which can be any of the link types above. This should be the only thing on the page, but anything else will be dropped anyway | REDIRECT [[More Accurate Pagename]] | User gets redirected to the indicated page |
Magic Words
A complete list can be found at Help:Magic_words
| Code | Explanation | Results |
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| {{PAGENAME}} | includes the name of this page, without any prefix. | Help for New Editors |
| {{NAMESPACE}} | The name space this page resides in, usually denoted as a prefix | HOWTO |
Page Formatting
| Code | Explanation | Results |
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| ---- | hr line | |
Wiki-Tables
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The code that made the table at left:
{| width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Our Example Table'''
! width="20%" | Col. 1
! Column 2 !! width="20%" | Col. 3
|-
| item
| column width defaulted to ~60% || item
|}
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Template Subst:tution
This function is not available yet for Wikibase!
So, you wanna start a new page here? You have hit the edit button and you are looking at a blank edit window... now what?!
Stay calm, panic, help is here. For almost every kind of information in EverQuest II we have created templates to help you and to keep the format of our data here consistent. All Information templates, and many other's besides, can be found at Bludwyng's Templates.
At the top of Bludwyng's Templates you will find a table of all the Information Box templates. The last 2 columns are of particular interest to you. These list a template that is a skeleton of the call for the main template, and the shortcut you can use so you do not have to type in the entire template name when you need to use it. So, here is how you do it...
- On your empty page (or at the top of a non-empty page if you want to fix an old or inconsistent page) put the following (replace shortcut_name with the shortcut to the example template you want to include):
{{subst:shortcut_name}}
- Now hit Save page, then edit (do not use the browser's Back button!)
- all you have to do now is fill in as much of the information in the template call (between the = and the |) and save it. Be sure that every line in the template call (except the last one) ends with the pipe character, i.e. |.
The template should format everything, provide a link for an image (if applicable) and link your info to all the appropriate categories. For complete (and sometimes more up-to-date) documentation of the functioning of a given template, go to the link named in the 2nd column of the Information Box Templates table.
Calling for Help!
There are a few templates that are designed to get the attention of an Admin.
- {{Admin Needed|put reason here}} will put a link to a category that is watched by the Admins and one of them will check out the problem as soon as they see it. Watch the discussion page and/or your talk page for a response by the admin.
- {{AfD|put reason here}} will put a link to a category requesting an Admin to remove the page you put the tag on. If the admin does NOT delete the page, they will remove the AfD tag and put a note on the articles talk page explaining why they did not delete it.
History
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Allakhazam credits this article at EQ2i for some of the info in this article. Licensed under the GFDL. |
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