Article Creation Guide
Creating Articles
- First and foremost, visit the rules section.
- Next, Use the search field to find out if the topic has already been made. If it has been made, that page should load up for editing. Otherwise, if it has not been created yet, you should see a "create this page" highlighted in red on the search results page, towards the top. Click on the link to get started editing.
Wiki Links
Creating links to other wikis within your article is easy to do. So lets say you wanted to send someone to the Purple Fuzzy Bunny article, you can do so by placing square brackets around the word, like this.
- [[Purple Fuzzy Bunny]]
If this article exists, the link will be blue. If it doesn't exist, then the link will be red. This could also be a good way to suggest that someone should create that article.
Headings
If you want to stay organized, use headings. Eventually after using three or four headings, you'll see a Table of Contents appear in your page. This will make it easier for visitors to read through your article. Headings, like what you see above this text, are made by using
- ==Headings==
- ===Subheadings===
- ====More Subheadings====
Text Manipulation
- Italicized text <-----------------> ''Italicized text''
- Bold text <----------------------> '''Bold text'''
- Bold and Italicized <--------> '''''Bold and Italicized'''''
Categories
Categories are used to keep articles organized. Creating one is easy, just add
- [[Category:Nightmares Gone Wild]]
to the end of your article, and voila, your article will be tied to that specific category. Now you can browse to the "Category:Nightmare Gone Wild" and see that your article is added to the list alphabetically. You will also notice that at the end of your article, there will be a box showing that this article belong to the "Category:Nightmares Gone Wild" category.
Adding your article to an already existing category is done the same way.
Collapsible Wiki Tables
Collapsible wiki tables can be used to add heaps of information to an article that is nice to have, but maybe doesn't need to take up space every time you look at the page. Pre-SoT info is a perfect example of this. It's nice to have that info, but it's also nice to keep it clearly separate, so that no one gets confused and takes it into SoT.
There is an incredibly detailed and varied number of things you can do with Wiki tables, and you can find all the examples of them on the page linked below in links and references. This example will just be a quick and dirty way to make nice little hidden info boxes.
First, you need to add the code to start the table, as follows (note, the first two characters are the most important, and are the curvy bracket { followed by a vertical bar |, together, referred to as a pipe):
- {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%"
Then you need to add a title (header) for the table, which starts with an exclamation mark, for example:
- ! Old Art Information [[Pre-SoT]]
Then you add the following characters to separate your header from the body of your table:
- |- (inserts horizontal line, separating rows)
- | (starts next cell of the table)
Finally, after the paragraphs you want within the table, close the table with a close pipe:
- |}
Together, it all looks like this:
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:100%"
! Old Art Information [[Pre-SoT]]
|-
|
<insert heaps of old information about your favorite art, say Vampiric Draw>
|}
|
And produces this:
| Old Art Information Pre-SoT |
|---|
|
<insert heaps of old information about your favorite art, say Vampiric Draw> |
Links and References
Please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page to learn more about wiki code. I just listed a few of the commands from this URL that will help you get started. If you feel there should be anything else added to this article, please feel free to add it.
