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Help:Tutorial
Here, you can learn about how to do any codes and markup on a wiki.
Links[edit]
Information[edit]
All links are blue. If you have clicked on them before,they will be purple.If there is a link to an article that does not exist,it will be red. If you see a red link,you can click on the link to create the article.
Normal Links[edit]
Getting around a wiki is made possible by links. Links are blue text that you click on and they take you to another page on the wiki. To make a link,type this:[[link name here]]
Name Changing[edit]
However,you may want to call a link something it's title isn't.(ex:You want to link to Banjo Tooie,but you want to call it Banjo 2) All you do is: [[link name here|what you want it called]] All links are blue. If you have clicked on them before,they will be purple.If there is a link to an article that does not exist,it will be red. If you see a red link,you can click on the link to create the article.
Paragraphs[edit]
If you are going to make a link take you to a certain paragraph on another page,type: [[link name#paragraph name]]
External Links[edit]
You can make a link to another website. Type:[Web address]
To call it something else,type: [Web address [SPACE] what you want it called]
Text[edit]
Text? Of course you know to type on your keyboard to make words.
Italics[edit]
Italic text can be made by typing ''your text here''
Bold[edit]
Bold text can be made by typing '''your text here'''
Both[edit]
You can also made text bold and italics.To make it,type '''''your text here'''''
Colors[edit]
Change the colour like this:<FONT COLOR="colour here">and when you want the colour back to normal, type </FONT>
Size[edit]
Change the text
size by
typing <FONT SIZE=<Size number>pts>
Shrotcuts[edit]
Don't want to do that? Need small text fast? Just type <sup> and the text will be small!. Type </sup> to bring it back to normal! But, if you don't want it high up, you can make <sub>your text</sub> do this!
Underlining [edit]
To Underline text type <u>text here and to end it type </u>.
Striking [edit]
To strikeout text type <s> text here and to end it type</s>
Pictures[edit]
Basic[edit]
All articles are better if they have a picture. To make one, type: [[Pic name.extension here]] This will give you a picture.
Size[edit]
To control the size of the picture, type [[Pic name.gif|#px]]
Alignment[edit]
To put the picture on the left or right side of the screen, type this: [[Pic name.gif|left or right]]
Thumbnails[edit]
And, finally, to give the picture a border and put some text in it, type: [[Pic name.gif|thumb|what you want in the border]]
Titles[edit]
Titles separate a page into sections. To make one, type:==title name==
A big title is what you get[edit]
To make a subtitle,put three = instead of two[edit]
A second subtitle is made by four ='s[edit]
Third subtitles are five ='s[edit]
Fourth,six ='s[edit]
Colons[edit]
Colons (:)
- can
- change
- the
- margin
- of
- text.
- Users often use these when replying to talk pages.
- They can go pretty far.
- Users often use these when replying to talk pages.
- text.
- of
- margin
- the
- change
Categories[edit]
Categories are what puts articles into the right group. To know all the categorys available, click here To put a category on an article type: [[Category:whatever the category is]]
Asterisks[edit]
To make a list or jot notes you need the asterisks in front of them. Type * to make an asterisk:
- See?
- It's easy!
- You can also make mini jots by typing two asterisks!
- And then get back to your normal list
Numbers[edit]
Like asterisks, numbers can come in handy when making a numbered lists. To make one, type #
- Num 1
- Num 2
- Num 3
- You can also make mini numbers by typing two!
- And then get back to your normal list.
Lines[edit]
If you want a blank title, you can just type ----
This will give you a line:
Line Breaking[edit]
You can type <br> and this will automacticly
break
the
line you are working on.
Adding Collapsible Pages[edit]
You will need to create three div elements:
<div class="NavFrame"> <div class="NavHead">[... This is the title of your collapsible content ...]</div> <div class="NavContent"> [... The content you want to hide goes here ...] </div> </div>
[... The content you want to hide goes here ...]
To initially hide the content do this:
<div class="NavFrame"> <div class="NavHead">[... This is the title of the hidden content ...]</div> <div class="NavContent" style="display:none;"> [... This content is initially hidden ...] </div> </div>
Sandbox[edit]
Go here to test out anything!