How to Make an Article

## The Basics

So ya wanna add your OC to the wiki, ey? Well good news for you, I can help you do just that.

There's a few things you need to keep in mind when making a new article, but for the most part its fairly straight forward. First, you will **need an account** in order to make an article. Once you have that, **you should see a triple ... near the upper right of the wiki** when you're on a given page. Clicking that, or hovering over it, should show you a **drop down menu**. One of the options there is **"Add a new page."** Click on that to get started in your adventure.

The visual editor on fandom is very forgiving for the most part. It acts a lot like any other doc editor. Some of the key differences though is the ability to insert an **infobox template**, which is probably what you think of when you think of a wiki for a character. The infobox is the graphic on the right side of a wiki with the characters picture, name, DOB, and other random information depending on what fandom you're in. **It looks something like this usually. -->**

We have **templates** made for the infoboxes: **Soul Rider, Non-Soul Rider, Horse, and Pet.** This template can be tweaked for non-soul rider characters as well. Any box you **leave empty** in an infobox template **won't show up** on the finished product, so you're welcome to include or not-include as much as you'd like.

Another important thing when adding an article is making sure it's **properly tagged for what category it is in.** **While in** **edit mode, click the cog wheel on the upper right.** Upon doing so, the second option on the drop down menu should say **"Categories".** We currently have a handful of categories to sort our characters by: Magic Users, Non-Magic Users, Characters, Animals, Soul Horses, Horses, and Other Pets. We might eventually add more categories depending on feedback and necessity.

### Other Fun Tips

If you want to break-up your article into **sections**, use the **drop down menu** on the **upper left** which currently says **"Paragraph".** you can utilize this menu to add dividers into your content or stylize headers in different ways. Think about the "Early Life" sections in a famous person's wiki, you can do that too!

If you have many pictures of your OC and wish to add them all, a **gallery section** would be recommended. These can be put into an article **using the** **"Insert" function**.

It's also recommended that, once you make more than one article, you **tie them back together**. For example, if you upload your OC and also their horse, you can link those two articles together using the **hyperlink function**. Highlight the word you want to tie the two together (i.e. if your horse's page starts with "NAME is a horse owned by OC-NAME" then highlight OC-NAME) and click the **chain icon** at the top of the text editor (next to the image icon). It will most likely pull up your already existing article if the spelling is the same as the article name, if it doesn't, you can always manually paste the link yourself or start typing into the search bar provided to find the article.

### Common Issues

"How do I add a picture to the infobox?"

Great question. I also struggled with this at first. The first thing you need to do is **go out of your page editor (save first)** and back to the **triple ...** at the top right of the page. This time, click **"Upload New File".** Choose the picture you want to eventually add to your wiki page and upload it there. Please note the *exact* spelling of the file name as it's uploaded (the file name on Fandom, not on your computer). So I recommend naming it something you'll remember. Then, go back to your wiki page and in the infobox editor, under the image section, type in [[File:filename.png]] (or .jpg depending) make sure spacing and capitalizations are correct, and when you get out of the infobox editor the image should appear.

If you already tried to upload the image directly to your wiki using the image uploader feature, you can skip the "Upload New File" step. You will still need to get the exact file name as noted on Fandom's website and use that to follow the steps above.

If the picture still isn't showing up, you typed something wrong. As long as the spacing, capitalizations, and file type extension is all correct, it will show up.