Create Your OC's Page/Create A Page

Welcome, fellow Scientists! We wish you a scartacular time in this humble community. This is our guide on how to create a page on the Monster Lab wiki.

Before you start, you have to be **registered** and **signed in** to edit on this wiki. Click ***here*** to register. Note that the account you create can be used on every other FANDOM wiki, so you might want to choose a universal username.

## Create a new Page

1. To save you some hustle, we've created a template page for you, that you can copy from **HERE**. Copy everything from the gray box.
2. To create a new page, click on the **⋮** in the top right corner on our wiki's banner and select **Add new page** from the dropdown menu.
3. You are now asked to title your new page. Type in the Name of your fan character and hit *next*. You are now in the *visual* *editor*.
4. Switch to ***source editing*** by clicking on  in the top right corner of the edit page window and select it from the drop-down.
5. Now paste the template you grabbed in step 1 onto the source editing window.
6. Return to the visual editor by clicking on  in the top right corner of the edit page window and switching back to it.
7. You can now fill the page with information about your character.
8. When you are done or just want to save what you have so far, hit the **save button** in the bottom right corner of the edit page window.

### Create a new Subpage

1. Follow steps 1 - 2 from above.
2. When you are asked for a name, put: Mainpage/Subpage (for example: Flaunt High/Students)

## Edit a Page

Note: You are **not allowed to change the content on pages that do not belong to you.** (Exceptions to this rule are Wiki Staff Members and USUALLY Community School Students sub-pages, if they allow you to freely add fitting FCs to the raster)

To edit any page that belongs to you, just find the page you want to edit and click on on the top right side of the page or on the pencil symbol on the left next to the page's name.

### Edit an Infobox

1. Double-click on the infobox and a pop-up will appear.
2. Fill in the empty arrays with information on your character. (Note that empty/unused arrays will be invisible on the infobox. You can, however, always fill them later.)

* *image1* is the Image that will appear on top of the Infobox. As this cell expects an image anyway, simply copy and paste the file's name and format into the empty array (e. g. ImageName.format > Character.png)
	+ to add an image to somewhere else in the infobox, for example the *pet* section, use this:
	```
	[[file:Image.png|150px]]
	```
	Replace "Image.png" with your image name and format. Add further information on the pet after this code snipped.
* *caption1* is the caption for *image1*. It's usually used when the image portrayed is not created by the page's owner to credit the original artist.

### Change the Standard Infobox

On the Monster Lab wiki, we have a number of fanon schools created by users. Some of which use themed infoboxes to highlight the character as a student of one of these schools. These special templates are normally provided somewhere on the school's page. To get them onto your page, follow the following steps:

1. Go to the school's page and find the infobox template. Copy it.
2. Go to your character's page and hit .
3. Change to *source mode* (See Create a new character page step 4)
4. Copy the template on top of the page (but below the "Quote" Template if you are using it) and click *Apply changes.*
5. Return to the visual editor. You now have both the standard and the new infobox in your page.
6. Copy and paste all the information from the standard infobox into the new one and add further information if needed
7. Then click on the standard infobox once and it should be highlighted.
8. Hit the *del* key on your keyboard to get rid of the standard template.
9. Click the *save* button in the bottom right corner of the window when you are done.

If your OC is not a student but a **Teacher, Parent, Adult**, **etc,** or if the fandom school does not provide a themed infobox, you can use this **miscellaneous infobox** instead.

### Infoboxes in use

Due to us merging with the inactive Monster High Fandom Wiki back in 2020, all of this wiki's infoboxes came with it. We have to update these infoboxes one by one, manually, so getting completely rid of them, will take a while. In order to not have new creators use these infoboxes and adding more work to the pile for us to deal with, here is a list of the infoboxes you can and should use:

#### Profile/School Infoboxes

* StudentBio (Standard Monster High Infobox)
* DPInhabitantBio (Fright-Mare Infobox)
* FHStudentBio (Flaunt High Infobox)
* GHStudentBio (Gardenia High Infobox)
* GPStudentBio (Galaxy Prep Infobox)
* HSHStudentBio (High Seas High Infobox)
* NHStudentBio (Nether High Infobox)
* NoHStudentBio (Nocturnal High Infobox)
* YHStudentBio (Yokai High Infobox)
* MiscBio (Miscellaneous Infobox, for Parents, Teachers, Adults, and Students of a school without its own Infobox)
* InfoboxFusion (Infobox for Freaky Fusions)

#### Other

* CharacterInfo (for additional information such as birthday, zodiac, height, ...)
* InfoboxDiaries (Used on Diary/Journal/Logs pages to link back to the chatacter it belongs to)
* InfoboxFanfiction (Used on chapter pages of fanfictions to make navigating through the Fanfiction easier)

**Do NOT use any other Infobox not listed above!**

### Reverting to an older edit

You wanted to try something out that didn't end up working and now your page is all messed up? Don't worry! Follow these steps to revert your page to an older edit!

1. Click the **⋮** next to the edit button.
2. In the dropdown, choose history.
3. In the overview, pick the last entry before your faux-pas
4. Click the **compare selected revisions button.** You now see the latest revision on the right, and the edit you've picked on the left, both in source code.
5. Click on the (edit) next to the selected version. Switch to visual editor to see if it's the right version. If it is, just hit save. If it isn't use the return button of your browser twice and select another edit.
6. If you still would like your idea implemented but have no idea what else to try, message an admin. Maybe they can help :)

### Images

#### Upload files

Before uploading new images, make sure you have read and are familiar with our **submission guidelines for images.**

1. To upload images to the wiki, click the **⋮** in the top right corner on our wiki's banner and choose **Upload new file** from the dropdown menu.
2. Click on the *select file* button and find the image you want to upload.
3. Change the File description:
 - Change the destination filename if you are getting the warning that a file with the same name has already been uploaded and you do NOT want to overwrite it.
 - You can leave the summary blank.
 **- Choose a proper licensing!**
4. Hit the upload file button in the bottom left corner of the page.

#### Adding Images

##### Galleries

If you **used the provided template** to create your page, there should already be a gallery on it. To add more images (or delete the placeholder image)

1. Just jump into editing mode () , scroll down to the gallery and click on it.
2. Click on the *edit* button that shows up.
3. Find the images you have previously uploaded and click on them to add them. Remove images by clicking the X, edit an image's caption by clicking the pencil symbol below the image you want to remove or edit.
4. When you are done, click the apply button in the top right corner of the pop-up window.
5. Save your changes to the page by hitting the *save* button in the bottom right corner of the edit page window.

If you **didn't use the provided template** to create your page and need to create a gallery, follow these steps:

1. To create a gallery use
```
<gallery> </gallery>
```
 **in the *source* *editor*** at the position you want it to appear.
2. Copy and paste the name and format of at least one image in between. Return to the **visual editor**
3. Proceed with steps 2 - 5 previously provided for editing a gallery.

You can **use the gallery code in infoboxes to create a tabber** to show of more than one image and create something like seen HERE

```
<gallery>
ImageA.png|TabberHeaderA
ImageB.jpg|TabberHeaderB
</gallery>

```

1. Just double-click on the infobox and find the *image1* section.
2. Copy & paste the above code snippet into the *image1* section.
3. Replace the left-hand side with your image (eg. Image.png) and the right-hand side with whatever you want each header to read. You can add more images/tabber by copying/adding more lines like the ones provided into the code.

##### Flavor Images

You can spice up your page by adding flavor images. Commonly done for the Skull in the introductory paragraph and friend portrait's in the friend section. There will be tutorials on that soon! If you don't want to wait and try to figure it out yourself, just look at any page's source code and copy the parts you are interested in. DO NOT SAVE ANY CHANGES to the page you are investigating. Just hit cancel/discard edits should wiki prompt you to save.

## Rename a Page

    You accidentally mistyped? You just want to rename an FC? Follow these steps:

1. Find the page you want to rename.
2. Click on the **⋮** found in the top right corner, next to the page's title.
3. Choose ***move*** from the drop-down menu.
4. Change the name (fig.1) and click the *move page* button.

## Delete a Page

Sometimes an idea sounded better in your head, but you are not satisfied with the outcome and want to delete the Page. Or you have changed the name of a Page and want to have the old one with the redirect on it deleted. **You cannot delete pages yourself,** but you can have them be deleted by an admin.

1. Find the page you want to delete.
2. Hop intomode.
3. Switch to the .
4. Empty the page.
5. Type {{delete}} onto the page, or click INSERT > Template > (type/find) Delete > Add Template
6. Hit the save button in the bottom right corner to save your edit.
7. Wait. An admin will take care of the deletion eventually. You usually have enough time to change your mind and undo the edit if you want the page to stay up after all :)