How 2 Write Wiki Article

## The Two Editors

On your page-making adventure, you will notice that when you edit a page, you can choose between two styles of editing. Now, some people use all of one, or all of the other, but those people are wrong. Use both, and you'll have no problems. My name is the Archivist, and I will now explain both.

### Visual Editor

The Visual Editor (VE) is where you will find the common formatting options. This is the main editor you are probably used to, you are able to switch between format options, such as Heading, Paragraph, and four tiers of sub-headings. You can make bulleted lists, numbered lists, create links to other pages, and upload + insert images. Use VE for any of these purposes, because it won't work for anything else.

### Source Editor

The Source Editor (SE) is where you will find the more complicated things involved in making a good wiki page. This editor is far more versatile, but unlike the jack of all trades, it is actually a master at all of the things you actually need it to do. The main purpose for this is inserting anything you find on a typical wiki page that isn't on the VE. This means quotes, Info plates, Character descriptions, Item lists, and all sorts of things. These are all done with some variety of code, though. It may be wise to look up a tutorial for how to code a wiki, but if you know HTML you should be fine. In case you don't know any templates, I will put the templates down below this heading.

#### To Quote

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Punctuation is included.

> When done correctly, it looks like this!
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> -The Archivist, explaining how to write a Wiki Page.

#### Item Listing

{INTERRUPT, REMOVE BEFORE USING| class="article-table mw-collapsible" style="width:100%"

! colspan="2" |Personal items

!Name

!Notes

All of the above is necessary. |- is for listing a new item. Name and Notes are both used in the order they appear, so write two lines, one for the item name, and the second for what you want to put in. If you were to look at the SE of THIS PAGE you will see how this is done.

 Frenchman's Cumsock
An elite gamer move in Chess, when made, the opponent will win in approximately 37 moves.

#### More to be added

If you have a template not listed here, throw it in here as I have done above, thank you for your service to the wiki.

## Imaging

When you want to add an image to an article, you will have to have the file on your computer, so you can upload it to the wiki. Once this is done, you can select it in the VE's "Add Media" option. ----->

To prove it was easy, I put one on the right of this heading.

### Why use the Visual Editor for imaging?

Because the Source Editor is inefficient for putting in images, and WILL confuse you if you try to do it too quickly. The only reason to put an image through the Source Editor is when you are putting the .png in the Character infobox. AFAIK, that is the only reason you would do so.

### My image has an annoying white border!

Edit the image with the VE, go to the advanced setting. Change the border option to 'Frameless'. This will get rid of the white box, but you will not be able to see captions.

### Can I re-use previous images?

Of course you can. Assuming it fits what you're writing about, feel free to use any image that has been uploaded to our wiki. We have a variety of Lunar Paladin capes if you ever have a specific section for... specific Lunar Paladin capes I guess. If you want to help with the whole "these images are specific" then you can find a bunch of screenshots from Eventide that look important, upload them into the wiki. It cannot harm us.

## Formatting

This heading contains information about formatting... It's on the tin, actually.

### Why Format?

If you don't, I will come for you. In addition to that, it looks bad. Eventually, someone is going to come around and be bothered enough by it that they'll fix it. Let's face it, it was probably me.

### Images in The Format

Keep in mind that you can drag Images while in the Visual Editor. They stay on the right side of the screen, but you do have control. Use this to your advantage.

### Primary Formatting

The main types of formatting you will use are as follows.

##### Headings

Use Headings to split up completely different topics. Like the General Information of a character from the History of said character. Restrict the information you give out in both sections, as if you put too much backstory in your General Information, your history will not be as stuffed.

##### Sub-Headings 1-4

Sub-Headings are used to add more information on established topics. Sub-Heading 1 is for different events in your history, while Sub-Heading 2 is for side notes or extra things about the information given on the topics dictated by the Heading. I challenge you to use 3 and 4, because I don't really see a need to add a side note to my side note. I should point out that while making this, I discovered the reason for the other two. I've now used Sub-Heading 3 for the first time.

### Secondary Formatting

##### Preformatted

I have never used this. Don't bother, do the formatting yourself. It will look better, I promise!

##### Block Quote

> This is clearly different, but I imagine it only appears so when seen next to Paragraph text.
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So... that's cool. I don't know a situation where you use this.