How to make a Wikia Page

Welcome to my cool guide on how to make Wikia Pages for the site Wars of Conquest. It is very simple and easy to do as shown in these tutorials below.

## Editing

### Making a Page

To get things started you need to make a page. To make a page simply press the button top right that looks like a page icon. This is located next to the total amount of pages. As shown on the right. The icon is next to "38 Pages".

When creating the title of your page. Make sure it is done correctly.

For characters, do **NOT** include titles in the page name. Such as "*Ser Ronald Swann*". Instead name the page "*Ronald Swann*". For characters who are royalty and who are II or III of their name. Name the page *"Aegon II Targaryen*".

### Uploading an Image

To add an image to the wikia. Simply hover your mouse over the three dots located on the far top right of the screen. This is located next to the other buttons such as "Add a New Page" and "Recently Changes". Once the drop down menu is shown, simply press "Add New Image". This button will take you to a special page where you will have to fill in the details for your new image. Once uploaded, keep a hold of the images upload name. As shown in the 2nd photo for the *Blackfyre Shield*. That is the link to being able to put your image into an infobox.

### Linking

Linking is extremely straightforward and easy to do. If you want to link certain words to different parts of the Wikia, Simply highlight the word you wish to link and press the link button located in the picture. A small box will appear on the screen. If the name is in orange, that means the page exists and if the name is in red that means the page does not exist. Simply click on whichever colour and the name will change to that colour. If it is in orange, you can click the name and it will take you to that page. If the name is in red, it means you can not click the name. When the page does get created, it will automatically change to orange. Allowing you not having to come back and edit.

### Infobox

Infoboxs are the red boxs full of information located on the right side of the page. It is on nearly every single page. To add an info box. Make sure you are on the "*Edit*" page and click on the button called "*Insert*". There a drop down menu will appear and the word Infobox is located at the top. Once clicking on Infobox, a range of different types of infoboxs appear. To use the Wars of Conquest ones, simply scroll to the bottom of the list and pick which box you will use for the page you are making.

Once clicking on the box you desire to use. (Use third image for reference). Click on the *"Add more information button"* and i range of fields will appear for you to fill out. On the "*image*" option, write the picture link you uploaded earlier into there, for example "*Blackfyreshield.png*".

Now for the smallest bits of coding. If you want to link something in the infobox to a different part of the wikia, simply add [[ and ]] around the words you want to link to a different part of the wikia, like this [[Daemon Blackfyre]].

If you want to move to a new line in a certain field simply use <br> after a sentence for example:

*Lord of Stonehelm <br>*

*Defender of the Slayne*

Using <br> and [[ ]] onlys works in the infoboxs and "*Edit Source*" which will be explained about later.

### Categories

Categories are located at the bottom of the page. Categories gives us the ability to group pages together under similarities. Categories help organize the community and make it easier for readers to find related content. Ideally, every wiki page should be in at least one category.

* Click on the **Add category** button, and start typing in a category name.
* You can use an already-established category (suggestions will appear as you type) or add a new one.
* Once you are done, hit save and the category will appear on the article.

Within our wikia, we use a few categories to link all of our pages. More than one category can be used for a page. Some of these Categories include:

* *Characters* - Allows us to group all the characters in one place. This can be accessed by clicking "Characters" in the header. Category:Characters
* *Noble Houses* - Allows us to group all the houses in one place. This can be accessed through the subheader of "Characters", by clicking "Houses of Westeros". Category:Noble Houses
* *House Name* - For instance "House Swann". This allows us to group all the pages relating to a certain house in once place. Clicking on the category at the bottom will allow us view all the pages with the same category. Category:House Swann
* *Locations* - Pretty self explanitory, used for locations pages such as "*King's Landing*". Category:Locations
* *Regions -* For instance "The Westerlands", "The Stormlands". Used to link everything related to a region. These links include characters from the region, locations and more. (*Not houses though*). Category:The Stormlands
* *Organisations* - Used for certain types of organisations, such as the Small Council and the King's Guard. Category:Organisation
* *Wars, Battles, Events* - All these categories used for pages that are events, wars and battles related.

And many more that you can probably figure out.

## Edit Source

Source edit mode is the editing mode of either the Visual Editor or the classic editor that allows editing of pages via wikitext or some HTML.

* In the VisualEditor, it is accessed via the toolbar menu.
* In the classic editor, click the Source tab above the edit area.

If you wish to *always* edit in source mode, you may wish to switch your preferences to the source editor.

*- Wikia*

Long story short, Edit Source allows us to go into more detail in editing pages and do stuff that we wouldnt be able to do via the standard edit option.

Source edit also allows for making new lines and linking very easy, the options that you used in the infobox can also be used in Edit Source.

Simply add [[ and ]] around the words you want to link to a different part of the wikia, like this [[Daemon Blackfyre]].

If you want to move to a new line in a certain field simply use <br> after a sentence for example:

*Lord of Stonehelm <br>*

*Defender of the Slayne*

Using <br> and [[ ]] onlys works in the infoboxs and "*Edit Source*".

Edit Source is a bit complicated to get the hand of, feel free to have a look at the edit source of different parts of the wikia. Here is some examples as shown below of what the Edit Source looks like and what users see on the page.

## Examples

Here is some examples of all the methods used above put into one page.

* House Swann
* House Reyne
* Cyrenna Swann
* Robb Reyne
* Castamere
* The Tourney at King's Landing
* 1st Blackfyre Rebellion

If you are still struggling, feel free to ask for help on the discord.