Help Edit

**Hello!** First of all, *thank you!* It's with the help of fans like you making contributions that we are able to fill this wiki in with information for others to use!

At this time, the wiki is free for anybody to edit. You don't need to log in or register to make changes to information on pages. If you are having trouble with editing, please feel free to contact an admin. *(This page is being created by Dan, buggyprince. I'm currently the highest role on the wiki, and a mod at the funky shack discord server. Send me a message if you need help and I'll do my best!)*

If a page already exists, you're free to change the page to the most clear and comprehensive version you are able. Some pages become outdated as information is revealed in a season, and some were filled quickly just to get a page made. If you need to delete someone else's work to make it work better or be more up-to-date, go ahead!

## Editing Basics

Every page has an "edit" button in the top right corner. There is also a floating edit button on the left of the page, and many categories have a little edit pen next to them as well, making it super easy to make changes to a page from anywhere. There are two versions of the editing page: Visual, and Source.

**Visual editing** is easy to read and understand. Everything in the window that you see as you edit will look the same after you save and return to the page. The top bar of the editing box has tools for you to use, including link inclusion, images, and text formatting. Highlighting text and clicking the chain link icon will allow you to easily add a link, either to an internal page or externally to another website.

The other mode is **Source editing**. This is a lot of the back end editing, and has more functions, but looks and generally acts like coding. This allows you to do much more complicated things to a page and its contents which are not available from Visual editing, but also including simple things like fonts and colours. FANDOM and WikiMedia use modified versions of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Some of this can only be edited by admins, but on an individual page you should be able to use HTML and CSS. For more about this, check out Community Central's Help pages, like this one for wikitext, and this one for HTML. *(Hey it's Dan again! I don't know how to do 90% of this stuff and have just been googling it, which has been just fine so far. Don't worry about it.)*

In the top right of the editing window in both modes, you'll see an options gear and a hamburger menu (That's what those 3 line things are called). Typically anything in the hamburger menu can just be opened in another tab if needed, but the options gear has a few things to check out that might be useful while editing or creating a new page. The main one to make note of is for adding **categories.** These help users sort through and find information. Adding all the relevant categories to a page makes it easier to find. It's like tagging a post on social media.

## Making a New Page

*Users must be logged on to create new pages.*

So, you've come across a total void of information. Maybe you clicked a dead link, maybe there's absolutely no mention of this thing whatsoever. Now you need a page to put information on. Clicking a dead link should automatically bring you to an empty page with the editor open for creating that page, or, on the top right of your window, there should be a few visible buttons, including search, dark/light mode, and 3 little dots which have a drop-down menu. "Add new page" should be the first option in the menu. You can also follow this link to create a new page, but you won't always want to come back here just for that.

### Formatting your New Page

Most pages have a format that matches other pages of the same type for consistency of information. The easiest ways to get the same thing onto your page are to use a template or to copy and paste from another page of the same type. When you create anew page, you'll now get a prompt to add a template to work from without having to copy and paste. This hasn't been updated for all types yet, so you may still need to. Thanks to cosmiclich! Otherwise, I've sorted all the basic templates for editing into a single category. Each one has its use right in the name. Go to the template page, go to the source edit for it, copy the information that's not just a comment from me, and paste it into your new page. Hit **SAVE**, and it will fill it in. Then, return to editing. This will make sure the other templates inside, like infoboxes, are working. See the image on the right for an example of an infobox.

### More on Infoboxes

Infoboxes look good and display information clearly and simply. There's a whole page for admin made by FANDOM Wiki just for creating nice new infoboxes. Feel free to message an admin for help making a new one, if you see where one would be warranted. Editing them can be a little strange. From Visual Editor, just click on the infobox and it gives you an option to edit it. This brings up a whole popup for adding information. Any areas unfilled will simply not appear, so don't worry about leaving blanks. If you're looking to add an image, upload a file (the same menu as creating a page), and it will have a filename, like "Walter.jpg". Simply put "Walter.jpg" into the textbox where it says image. That's all you need!

Infoboxes on Visual Editor don't give you an easy way to add links to outside sources (for images) or to other pages, though. After you've added the text to your infobox, save it and pop over to the source editor. It'll look a little messy, but just find and select the section you need to add a link to, highlight it, and click the little linked chain icon. This gives an option to link the text to a page on the wiki, or switch over to an external link instead. Pop your link in and you're good to go.

### Some templates for creating pages

  Add a NPC

  Add a Character

## Image Use

*Users must be logged on to upload new images.*

### Artist Credit

We're really lucky to have a creative fanbase! It's great to see people's imaginings of characters from an audio medium. However, just because someone drew something based on Dice Funk, it doesn't mean you're free to post it on separate websites, like this one. Art can be a personal and private thing, or people may worry about their work being used for profit by someone else, or otherwise being stolen. In order to post images here on the wiki, you **must ask permission from the artist.** If you are unable to contact the artist, you should find a different image.

Once you've established it's alright to post the image here on the wiki, ask where and how they would like to be credited. **Always make sure your images have artist credits**. For some images this may be on the page for the image itself, but preferably the credit should be wherever the image is used, Infoboxes have a "Caption" text box, which is where credit will go. See the above section on how to add an image and link to credit in an infobox.

The exceptions to these rules are for royalty free, public domain, and fair use images which can be used anywhere, including for profit. FANDOM makes ad revenue to keep running, so images uploaded may be considered as used for profit. The other exception is if you drew or designed an image yourself. You should credit yourself, but when uploading an image you have the option to say what the licensing status of the image is. One of the options is "I created this image myself". This will suffice as crediting the artist, yourself.

### "Advanced" Image Placement

The image button on the toolbar makes placing images fairly simple. Click over to the "Advanced" tab to better situate your image on the page, and change how it looks. For most images on the wiki so far, they are placed with no border or frame. This is a matter of personal preference, but consistency helps make a wiki look more professional. This window will pop up in both editing modes. The tab says "Advanced", but really it's just how you'd like the border of the image to work, what part of the page you'd like it on, text wrapping, and some size variation. This is all easier than it would be on Microsoft Word for an infographic in a school project.

Actually making "advanced" changes to your image will typically require switching to Source Editing. From Visual, you're able to move the image around a bit and drag to resize from the corner of the image. This is super convenient for seeing how big the image will be in the end result. Changing the link or making more specific changes will require using WikiText in the Source Editor. *(Dan here! I don't know the specifics of interaction between wikitext and HTML/CSS regarding images, but other wikis seem to have pretty robust images using CSS. Go ahead and experiment if you know what you're doing, or if you're confused like me, the basics of the media window will work just fine!)*