Editing Manual

## Introduction

Welcome to the editing manual for the Pivot Zombie Movie Wiki, here you will find out what you need to know about editing on this wiki; everything from formatting to uploading images. If you're looking for something specific, use the contents section above to find what you're looking for.

## Chapter 1: The Basics

This chapter will cover the basics, if you are looking to learn how to do something, that will be explained in a later chapter.

### Canonicity

First things first, as you can see this is a wiki for everything related to the Pivot Zombie Movie. It is not however a place for fan-fiction or non-canon pieces of PZM writing. While we are happy to read fan created works of fiction based on my series, this wiki is not the place for them to be published as they are non canonical events.

If you know that a certain scene or story sequence occurred off screen and was only briefly mentioned in the series, such as Mark and Nick's fight in the cabin earlier on in the series, you are free to write about and further develop that scene to the best of your knowledge of the story and characters and how you think the sequence played out.

### Images

You are free to upload any image from the series that you can find, whether that be a screenshot from one of the episodes or one of the arts I have created and posted in my YouTube community tab or Discord server. Fan arts are not yet accepted on the wiki but they may be in the future. Any other images should not be uploaded to the wiki. If you feel there is an image that is not from the series but should be on the wiki, please write StickFrameAnimations a message and an exception may be made.

### Rules

The rules for this wiki can be found on their own separate page here. They should be followed at all times when making edits on the wiki, creating pages and interacting with other members of the community. If you have any queries about the rules, feel free to message StickFrameAnimations about it if you would like further insight or if you feel that there are rules that are missing.

## Chapter 2: Editing Tutorial

So, you've spent some time on the wiki reading other articles and you want to add some of your own content? You've seen something you think needs fixing that nobody else has noticed? Welcome to editing!

This section of the editing manual will cover the basics on how to edit a page on this wiki. If you have already used FANDOM/Wikia before for editing, then you may wish to skip this chapter as you will likely already know all of this stuff. Otherwise, please read on.

### Making My First Edit

To get started on making your first edit, find the page or article you would like to make changes to and click the edit button in the top right corner of the page as depicted below.

After clicking this, by default you will be brought into the VisualEditor, which will show you the article as it appears to you as a reader and you can edit from there. You can type, delete and edit templates and info-boxes (more on them later). This is the desired editing interface for most new users to Wikia and it is the best to use if you are making small edits to the content of the page.

Also when reading an article/page, you will see that there are small hyperlinks next to every heading or subheading accompanied by a pencil icon. Clicking on these will take you into the same interface as clicking the blue edit button in the corner. The only difference being that when you complete your edit and wish to save changes, it will be easier for the other editors to see which section you have made changes to as it will be displayed in your edit.

So now you've made your edit and desired changes to the page and you wish to save your changes, this can be done by clicking the save page button in the top right of the editing area, as depicted below.

Once you have clicked save, you will be brought to a final confirmation screen before your edit is published that looks like this:

From here, you are free to press save page once again to publish your edit. However, it would be helpful for us other editors if you filled in the edit summary field so at a glance we know what you have changed and can click on the edit in the activity feed if we wish to see your full changes. If you tick 'follow this page' you will be notified when any changes are made to the page in the future. If you are not ready to confirm your edit and wish to go back and change more, simply click the 'Resume editing' button. Congratulations! You have made your first edit and contribution to the Pivot Zombie Movie Wiki!

### Source Editor

Alongside the VisualEditor, the Source editor is another method that you can use to edit pages with. To access it (if you are not taken there by default), click the hamburger icon in the top right corner of the editing screen, as depicted below:

    The source editor displays the page in a HTML code style of view. If you are simply making a content edit (just adding or removing text) then there isn't really a reason to use the source editor unless you prefer the look of it. The source editor can come in handy however when editing info-boxes and templates, more specifically, the information in info-boxes and templates and their formats. For example, let's say you wanted to make a bullet-ed list in an info-box, which isn't possible in the visual editor.

Depicted above is the page for The Survivors, in the info-box there is a bullet-ed list where the current and former leaders of the group are listed. It is possible to create this in the default info-box editor, but it is easier in the source and either way you will need knowledge of the HTML tag for lists. Pictured below is this page in the view of the source editor. As you can see, the infobox of this article is the first section of code and you can determine where each fields data is to be inputted by the '=' signs and where a new field begins as they are seperated by piping '|'.

## Chapter 3: Building Connections Between Pages

Most of the characters and locations in the series have their own pages in the wiki. They are connected to one another in forms of hyperlinks and categories. This chapter will cover the basics on how to build hyperlinks for navigation to other articles on a page as well as categorizing a page.

### Hyperlinks

If you mention a character or a location on a page using the Source editor, you may want readers to get directed to another page to get more information about that particular character or location. To do this, you can simply put the name of the character or location inside a square bracket '[[ ]]'. Let's take an example from the image above in the Source editor of the page - Icarus (Episode 18). If you want to navigate readers from this page to the page of Craig to delve into the character, you can enclose 'Craig' with the square brackets '[[ ]]' as seen from the image above. If the page of that character **exists** in this wiki, your edit will cause the name of that character to be highlighted in **gold** as shown from the image below in this section which is the result of the edit. You can also see the name of Craig in the **gold** color in this section of this manual after you have created a hyperlink for the character successfully.

However, if the page of that character or location ***does not exist*** in the wiki. This will result in the ***red color*** of the words that you enclose using square brackets. The hyperlink then does not work because the readers cannot be directed to a page that does not exist in the wiki. In this case, you can either add a new page to the wiki for that character or location as long as it is relevant to the series. Otherwise, the hyperlink is not necessary and you are advised to remove the square brackets.

### Categorizing A Page

Any pages in the wiki can be categorized into a particular set of pages. This helps readers ascertain the background information of a particular character in the series or the function of a page (whether it is describing a character or a location) in the wiki. Normally, we categorize a page **at the end (bottom)** of that page using the code - ''*Category:**YYY''*** enclosed with square brackets (as a hyperlink to navigate the readers to the category page). You may need to repeat typing this code if the page belongs to more than one category. You can take a look at an example from the image below for categorizing the page - Icarus (Episode 18).

'***YYY'*** can be one of the categories based on the nature of that page:

* **Characters** (This is a category page for main characters or side characters who have abundant lines in the series)

* **Episodes** (This is a category page for the episodes(parts) of the Pivot Zombie Movie Series)

* **Places** (This is a category page for most of the on-screen locations shown in Pivot Zombie Movie Series)

* **Groups** (This is a category page for the groups of characters/creatures in the series)

* **Civilians** (This is a category page for characters who have never had any *military history* in the series)

* **Military** (This is a category page for characters who have military history - mainly in British Army)

* **Cure Control Regiment** (This is a category page for characters, places and groups related to C.C.R organization)

* **Minor/unnamed characters** (This is a category page for characters who do not have certain names or limited lines in the series)

* **Help and Support** (This a category page for gathering all the pages that serve as *rules*, *editing tutorials* or *quizzes* in this wiki)

* **Pages In Need Of Expansion** (This is a category page for a bunch of pages which lack a lot of content and need more edits from editors in order to make them informative in the wiki) (Any pages can be removed from this category as long as the administrators of this wiki think they contain sufficient information)