Editing Guide, Tips & Tricks

This guide is designed to help educate new editors, as well as provide useful tips and tricks to the more advanced editors.

Please see Manual of Style for guidance on wiki editing principles and the specific style for this wiki before making edits that could impact the styling of an article.

## Tips

* Any text directly touching a link will appear as though it is a part of the link. For example, if you want to add a simple plural to a link, you would type "For a list of known climates, see the [[climate]]s page." (renders as "For a list of known climates, see the climates page."
* Fandom search is no longer case sensitive. This means that when you are formatting text to abide by the capitalization guidelines in the manual of style, you can simply change the first letter to lower case. Climbing can quickly become climbing without the use of pipes!

## Transcluding

Please see Help:Transclusion over on Wikipedia for more information.

Transcluding is the act of displaying information from one article on the wiki within the contents of another article. This is useful for when you need to display information that is pertinent to multiple other articles - such as the **Changelog** and **Mastery** for class abilities. By transcluding the **Changelog** for example, Editors only have to make changes to the base article that is referenced instead of having to manually track and edit each.

 **How to: Transclude**

There are two primary ways to transclude:

1. {{TEMPLATENAME}} - this transcludes from a template
2. {{:PAGENAME}} - this transcludes from an article in the Main namespace

By default, the wiki calls ALL information on the transcluded page. You can control what will transclude with the following tags:

 <noinclude> Text between this opening and closing tag is ONLY visible on the source page and will NOT appear on another page via transclusion. Text not contained within these tags is visible on the source page and via transclusion. </noinclude>

 <onlyinclude> Text between this opening and closing tag is visible on the source page and via transclusion. Any text not contained within these tags will not be visible via transclusion. </onlyinclude>

 <includeonly> Text between this opening and closing tag is NOT visible on the source page but WILL be visible via transclusion. Text not contained within these tags is visible on the source page and via transclusion. </includeonly>

If you want to transclude multiple different sections of the same page, the simplest method is to use {{#section-h:PAGENAME|SECTION}}. This causes the transclusion to only call text within the named section. Please note: this only works with proper SECTIONS and will not work on anchors created via  **<div id="name">name</div>**

 **Examples: Transclusion**

Say you are creating the upgraded version of an ability, such as the Wizard's Blast of Frost. Since information in both the **Changelog** and **Mastery** sections impact each level of the ability, you want to include that information on this ability page, too. You could ask users to refer to the basic ability - which reduces the reader experience - or you could copy and paste the information, but now whenever anything changes within those sections, you must manually change that information on this version of the ability, too. Instead, you should transclude that information. To achieve that result for this example scenario, you would do the following:

===Mastery===

{{#section-h:Blast of Cold|Mastery}}

===Changelog===

{{#section-h:Blast of Cold|Changelog}}

## Link

 Sourced from Gampedia Help. Some content removed. See Links at for more info

Link types:

1. **Internal links** to other pages in the wiki
2. **External links** to other websites

## Internal links

To add an internal link, enclose the name of the page you want to link to in double square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page. By default, if the page exists already it is displayed in blue, if it does not exist, it is displayed in red. Self links to the current page are not transformed in URLs but displayed in **bold**. (If you really want to link to the current page, use an anchor (see below), or [[#top|current page]] which always links to the top.)

The first letter of the target page is automatically capitalized, unless otherwise set by the admins or with the `{{DISPLAYTITLE}}` magic word, and spaces are represented as underscores (typing an underscore in the link will have a similar effect as typing a space, but is not recommended, since the underscore will also be shown in the text).

## External links

To add an external link, enclose the URL followed by space and the name of the page you want to link to in single square brackets. When you save the page, you'll see the new link pointing to your page, with an arrow icon after it to show that it was coded with single bracket external link syntax, and thus may lead to another site.