Editing the wiki

I work only with the source editor, not the visual one, so keep it in mind. In my honest opinion the visual editor is shit, unless you only want to make minor edits, in which case it is acceptable.

In this page you will find answers to:

* How to create a page
* How to make the cool box table that other character pages have on the right
* How to use headers and subheaders
* How to link other pages from the wiki
* The meaning of life (42)
* How to make text **bold**, *italic*, underlined, ~~strikethrough~~ and even big or small
* How to make lists such as this one

# Character template

**If your character page isnt created yet:** press on "add page" at the top right, enter your character's name (you'll be able to change the page title later, if you'll want to add a last name or something) and the page is created.

**Changing the page title:** press the menu on the right of the edit button and **find "move"**. (I don't know why they call it that and not just "rename", but it's no surprise to me because the wiki platform sucks a lot. Trust me.)

To keep everything in place, we use **infoboxes**. An infobox is the table on the right, **it follows a certain template** (which I've set up). You are **not able** to edit it to add your own sections (at least you shouldnt be).

It is **not necessary** to fill in everything. If you don't have any aliases, a partner, or whatever else, you can delete the line in the template you've copy pasted to your page, or **you can just leave it blank**, either one works (I delete the things I don't need so that they don't waste space in the source editor, but when you save it, it shouldn't show up anyways).

**The character template is this:**

```
{{Character

}}

```

Some explanations to the template:

As of 02 19, I have no clue how to work with **images** yet, so I can't help you with that.

**Ign** - your minecraft username. I kept it in the character template - even though it's not a roleplay thing, sometimes it's useful to know others' usernames. Of course, optional to write.

**Aliases** - list all your nicknames if you have any, it's fun to see those!

**Occupation** - anything from just farmer/brewer/builder to Almusta of Khalidin, you can definitely have more than one title.

**Gender** - for other species that canonically don't have the concept of gender, you can write neither/non-binary/whatever else you'd like, but in this case it would be great if you specified at least the pronouns to use when speaking about your character (she/he/they/it?)

**Height** - if you can take a moment to google that, please write the height both in feet and meters/centimeters.

While **eyes** is probably just eye color (unless you have something else to say about them), **hair** also can include a short description of texture, length, etc.

Other physical description aspects are meant to be in the main section of the page.

An example of a filled out character template with the things I mentioned:

```
{{Character

}}

```

# Main section of your page (headers, subheaders)

The main section is all the information on the left, not in a table format, but in this one that you're reading right now.

Content table appears automatically and consists of your headers and sub-headers.

The page can be divided in sections using

```
 =Header=
```
, such as the one I just used:

```
=Main section of your page=
```
. When you write it, it should automatically show up as a little bigger and bolder in your source editor (at least it does for me). Subheaders look like this, try it out if you want:

```
==Subheader==
```

This does not follow any set template and you can create any sections you want. A basic structure that I suggest is:

```
=Appearance=
(very short and skinny, usually wears loose clothing and capes, a green pointy hat, etc.)

=Character traits=
(quickly gets attached to people, a little naive)(strengths, weaknesses, etc.)

=Backstory=
(has been living in a faction since they were born, still has both parents, etc.)

```

Again, edit this however you'd like, add sections that you want. If you have a lot to say about their values or builds, why not create

```
=Values=
```
 or

```
=Builds=
```
 sections.

# Linking pages

As shown in my character template, the simplest way to link a page is by doing

```
[[Page]]
```
. It's good if you just want to link

```
[[Tohkah]]
```
 and nothing too complicated.
However, this only works if the page name is the exact same thing as the text you want to link. But lets say you want to link "Vara" to its page, called "The Varian Empire". Simply doing

```
[[Vara]]
```
 will not work. You can link it under a different name using the format of

```
[[Full page name|Anything]]
```
, for example,

```
[[The Varian Empire|Vara]]
```
 will show up as "Vara" but take you to the page of "The Varian Empire": Vara.
If you want to link a certain section of a page, you do this:

```
[[Full page name#Full section name|Anything]]
```
, for example,

```
[[Editing the wiki#Linking pages|Linking pages]]
```
 automatically should scroll you to the section that is linked: Linking pages.

# Text formatting

A lot more info can be found at the wiki's help page, which for once is useful. Also some HTML knowledge might help you here.

Basic text formatting commands in source mode are:

```
<b>Text</b>
```
=**Text**

```
<i>Text</i>
```
=*Text*

```
<u>Text</u>
```
=Text

```

Text

```
=~~Text~~

```
<big>Text</big>
```
=Text

```
<small>Text</small>
```
=Text

Lists are made with \* before the item in the list, e.g.

```
*1
*2
**2.1
*3

```

makes

* 1
* 2
	+ 2.1
* 3

Thank you for reading, I'll go drink some tea now after writing all of this in one sitting.