Sample Guide
Guide to Making Guides
Making guides on a Wiki is very easy, with the help of the editing bar you can make a decent looking guide in a few simple steps. We want to keep our Wiki as simple and clean looking as possible, so these basic techniques will help you to make your guide easy to read as well as functional. For advanced editing techniques check out the links at the end of this guide, the Meta Wiki is by far the most helpful and informative source for all of your editing needs.
The most important rule is: If you don't know how to do something and you are afraid to try, just put the information you have in there and someone else will come along and fix it up eventually. An alternative to this would be if you are trying to post a very large guide or contribution piece yourself, you may contact us on the forums for tips.
Links and Creating Pages
First, if you do not see a link to the guide page that you want, there is a simple way to create it. In the section that you want to put the main link in, this one for example, type the following:
[[Name of Guide]]
Which translates into: Name of Guide , which has now become a clickable link
The brackets tell the server that the text is a link, and it creates the link for you. If it is a brand new link, the link will take you directly to an edit page.
Headers
If you want to make headers to break up sections of your guide, highlight the text you want to use and click the big A on the editing menu. It will look like this afterward:
== Sample Header ==
This translates into the following when published:
Sample Header
That's it for this section, try to use the headers very sparingly! Do you see how ugly this page looks with all these headers? Let's make sure your pages look much better!
Lists
Lists are another simple thing that you can add easily into your guide.
*Simple lists are just that, **Indenting lists is simple too! ** start every line * with a star ** more stars mean *** deeper levels
This will display as:
- Simple lists are just that,
- Indenting lists is simple too!
- start every line
- with a star
- more stars mean
- deeper levels
- more stars mean
Numbered Lists:
#Numbered lists ##Are easy too. ##Same Basic Concept #Different end result.
This will display as:
- Numbered lists
- Are easy too.
- Same Basic Concept
- Different end result.
For more list examples, go here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:List
Tables
Tables are great for organizing information, they may be a bit more complicated than lists, but they look great!
{| {| style="background:#3D2B1F" border="1" <-- color of table and size of border, keep the color consistent please
|+ This is the table title
! left side box 1
| right side box 1
|- <--this denotes the end of a line
! left box 2
|right box 2
|additional box on same line <-- Just add "|" to add more horizontal cells
|-
! box3 left
|box 3 center
|box 3 second center
|box 3 right
|-
|}
The above code displays like this:
| left side box 1 | right side box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| left box 2 | right box 2 | additional box on same line | |
| box3 left | box 3 center | box 3 second center | box 3 right |
This is all that you really need to help contribute to the Wiki, for advanced editing tips and guides, check out the links below:
Wiki List Creation & Formatting
Signing Your Contributions
I almost forgot, you can sign your contributions! All you have to do is click the signature looking thing in the editing bar, or just type this:
--~~~~
Which displays like the one under this line of text.
--Eatwithspoons 22:29, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
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