Help:Contents
Our Wiki Help Pages | ||||
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General Mediawiki Helpguides |
Contributing to the Wiki
- Getting Started: always best to start at the beginning
- Article Setup Guide: because you should get familiar to the basic layout
- Check out all the links in the Help Header! because they are useful
Wiki Cleanup Tasks
Because the Wiki is not a single person's job to maintain, here are some things you can help out with
- Remember to add Tags onto pages for easy sorting, specially if you don't have time to fix the problem on the spot
Any Contributors Task
- Pages that need fixing! Outdated/Incorrect information! Of course nothing should be in this category if you can help it
- Redirects and DoubleRedirects easy task to fix
- List of tiny things to do
For WikiWriter (Formatting)
STuff
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Ask a Question
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Sandbox
Feel free to use the Sandbox for getting a feel of the editing system. Don't worry about overwriting what is already there. It is meant as a playground to get you started.
Formatting
Need to do something besides plain text? It is really easy. Here are the basic tools to create what you want.
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Italicize text | ''italic'' | italic | |||||||||||||||||||
Bold text | '''bold''' | bold | |||||||||||||||||||
Bold and italic | '''''bold & italic''''' | bold & italic | |||||||||||||||||||
Internal link (within UOGuide) |
[[Name of Page]] [[Name of Page|Display Text]] |
Name of Page Display Text | |||||||||||||||||||
External link (to other websites) |
[http://www.example.com] [http://www.example.com display text] http://www.example.com |
[1] display text http://www.example.com | |||||||||||||||||||
Escape wiki markup | ''markup'' <nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki> |
markup no ''markup'' | |||||||||||||||||||
Line Break | one{{Break}}two | one two | |||||||||||||||||||
Monospace text | This text is not Monospace. {{Monospace|This text is Monospace.}} |
This text is not Monospace. This text is Monospace. | |||||||||||||||||||
Sign your posts on talk pages |
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Thumbnail image | [[File:VampireRexie.gif|thumb|Caption text]] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Headings of different sizes A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article. |
==Level 1== ===Level 2=== ====Level 3==== =====Level 4===== |
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Bulleted list | * oneTemplate:Line Break* twoTemplate:Line Break** two point oneTemplate:Line Break** two point twoTemplate:Line Break* three |
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Numbered list | # oneTemplate:Line Break# twoTemplate:Line Break## two point oneTemplate:Line Break## two point twoTemplate:Line Break# three |
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Indenting Text | DefinitionTemplate:Line Break: item 1Template:Line Break: item 2 |
Definition
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Tables |
{| !Weapon !Weight !Swing Delay |- |Katana |6 stones |2.5 seconds |- |Longsword |7 stones |3.5 seconds |}
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Editing Guidelines
If you become a regular contributor to the site it is recommended you familiarize yourself with the general editing guidelines. It will help keep pages consistent throughout the site and make editing easier for yourself and other people.
- Help:Page Layout - How each page should be setup
- Help:Creating an Item Page - A tutorial on creating a new page
- Help:Images - All about images
- Help:Categories - All about categories
- Help:Templates - All about templates
- Help: Guild Website Hosting - All a guild needs to know about their website
- Help: User Page - All a user needs to know about their own page
If you would like to help edit but don't know where to start, see the UOGuide Priorities page.