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General Mediawiki Helpguides

Contributing to the Wiki

  1. Getting Started: always best to start at the beginning
  2. Article Setup Guide: because you should get familiar to the basic layout
  3. 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

  1. Pages that need fixing! Outdated/Incorrect information! Of course nothing should be in this category if you can help it
  2. Redirects and DoubleRedirects easy task to fix
  3. List of tiny things to do

For WikiWriter (Formatting)

  1. Pages that need WikiWriter attention

STuff

Is this your first visit to UOGuide? Be sure to read our introduction page on how you can help out the site.

Ask a Question

If you need any help, add a comment to the Help Talk Page. A reply will be made to your comment, so check back regularly.

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.

Description You Type You Get
Applies anywhere
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
~~~~ Username 15:20, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
Thumbnail image [[File:VampireRexie.gif|thumb|Caption text]]
Caption text
Applies only at the beginning of the line
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=====

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Bulleted list * one
* two
** two point one
** two point two
* three
  • one
  • two
    • two point one
    • two point two
  • three
Numbered list # one
# two
## two point one
## two point two
# three
  1. one
  2. two
    1. two point one
    2. two point two
  3. three
Indenting Text Definition
: item 1
: item 2

Definition

item 1
item 2
Tables
{| class=wikitable
!Element
!Species
!Color
|-
|Fire
|Rexie
|Red
|-
|Vampire ||Aviaa ||White
|}
{| Table start
|- Table Row
! Table Row for Header
| Table Cell
|} Table end
Element Species Color
Fire Rexie Red
Vampire Aviaa White

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.

If you would like to help edit but don't know where to start, see the UOGuide Priorities page.