Creating a New Wiki Page
Below is some basic help on how to create a new wiki page.
Creating a New Page
To start a new page like this one just type in the title name of the page that you want to create into the search field on the left side of this page. If your chosen page title has already been taken then the search will show a found link with that name.
If there is no page by your chosen title the search may still have multiple links that are as close as it could come to matching your request.
Just below the search page title, "Search results" is the next line on the page similar to the one below. If, for example, you searched on "Article Name" you'd get:
You searched for Article Name (all pages starting with "Article Name" | all pages that link to "Article Name")
If your search shows the link after "You searched for" with a red question mark, that means that the article doesn't exist. You can then click on that link to create that page.
Alternately, you can just put your article name after the URL "http://pwi-wiki.perfectworld.com/index.php/", go to that page, and then you can create the article by clicking "edit this page".
This game, PW (Perfect World) is great fun but so many things are left for us to figure out by trial and error. However, by creating new wiki pages you can help out your fellow Perfect World International players by providing them useful information.
When you do make your page it is a good idea to use the "Show preview" button while working on it. This will allow you to see if the page came out the way you intended before you actually save the page.
Links to Other Wiki Help Pages
Here the first Best Link that you have probably already found: Sample Guide
Among other things it shows you how to make the title header, a page line, and a time stamp signature.
There is also the Templates page, which includes templates for images, references, and various info markers.
How to Examples
Leave a blank line between your lines of text to separate your text sections. Otherwise it will look like this even though you entered the text on two separate lines.
You can also use "<br>" for a linebreak.
This was actually written as one line using such a linebreak. (You can click "Edit" above to see the source for this section.)
To make a thin divider line type ---- on one line by itself. Use these sparingly so as not to make your pages look to busy, kind of like what this section is starting to look like.
To make a Header Bar just type two equal (=) signs around your Header title text like this "== Header Title ==" on a line by itself and there's your new:
Header Bar (Please Use Proper Title Capitalization)
If you use "===" instead of "==" it will make that a subsection, instead of a new main section, for example:
This is a Subsection
When you want to link to someone else's wiki page just type double brackets around the page title of the page you want to your link to go to, like this: [[Wiki Page Link]] Written this way the link shows a normal text, unless you set your preferences to show links underlined (highly recommended), but can be clicked on to take you to the page named in the brackets.
You can have links to other articles displayed as text other than the article name by using a "|" in the link. For example, "A link to [[Templates|the article on templates]]" is displayed as "A link to the article on templates". Clicking on the text "the article on templates" will take you to the Templates article.
Here's another link: My Friendly Wiki Page Link. This link however does not go to any page because that page does not exist until someone creates a page with that title. If you click on that link it will try to make a page with the title "My Friendly Wiki Page Link". (Please don't make that page you'll ruin the example.)
Image & File Uploads
Click the "Upload file" link in the Toolbox links on the left of every page to get to a page that has information and a form that is used to upload any images that you wish to use in your article. Please first check for available images that are already in the system that can be used so you don't upload a duplicate.
The Imagebox template can be used to display images in various ways that conform to the style of this wiki.
