Help:Editing
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The edit-help page borrowed from Wikipedia untill further notice (read:forever). Some (although not much) information may be irrelevant.
Editing a Wiki page is very easy. Simply click on the "Edit this page" tab at the top (or the edit link on the right or bottom) of a Wiki page. This will bring you to a page with a text box containing the editable text of that page. You should write a short edit summary in the small field below the edit-box. You may use shorthand to describe your changes, as described in the legend, and when you've finished, press preview to see how your changes will look. If you're happy with what you see, then press "Save" and your changes will be immediately applied to the article.
You can also click on the "Discussion" tab to see the corresponding talk page, which contains comments about the page from other Wiki users. Click on the "+" tab to add a new section, or edit the page in the same way as an article page.
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Tips on editing articles
Citing Sources
- Main article: Citing Sources
Cite your sources so others can check and extend your work. Most articles currently lack good references, and this contributes to the Wiki's single greatest criticism – that it is not a reliable source. Please help by researching online and print resources to find references for the article you are working on, then cite them in proper form, and consider in-text citation for contentious facts. There is no consensus on the best way to do that, but anything is better than nothing. (note: since this wiki has a gaming theme, and most articles are about fictional elements, citing is not nearly as important as it might have been.)
Minor edits
When editing a page, a logged-in user can mark that edit as being "minor". Minor edits generally mean spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearrangement of text. It is possible to hide minor edits when viewing Recent Changes. Marking a significant change as a minor edit is considered bad behavior, and even more so if it involves the deletion of some text. If one has accidentally marked an edit as minor, the person should edit the source once more, mark it major (or, rather, ensure that the check-box for "This is a minor edit" is not checked), and, in the summary, state that the previous change was a major one.
Table of Contents
Placement of the Table of Contents (TOC)
At the current status of the wiki markup language, having at least four headers on a page triggers the TOC to appear in front of the first header (or after introductory sections). Putting __TOC__ anywhere forces the TOC to appear at that point (instead of just before the first header). Putting __NOTOC__ anywhere forces the TOC to disappear. See also compact TOC for alphabet and year headings.
Keeping headings out of the Table of Contents
If you want some subheadings to not appear in the Table of Contents, then make the following replacements.
Replace == Header 2 == with <h2> Header 2 </h2>
Replace === Header 3 === with <h3> Header 3 </h3>
And so forth.
For example, notice that the following header has the same font as the other subheaders to this "Tables" section, but the following header does not appear in the Table of Contents for this page.
This header has the h4 font, but is NOT in the Table of Contents
This effect is obtained by the following line of code.
<h4> This header has the h4 font, but is NOT in the Table of Contents </h4>
Tables
There are two ways to build tables:
- in special Wiki-markup (see Wikipedia:Help:Table)
- with the usual HTML elements: <table>, <tr>, <td> or <th>.
For the latter, and a discussion on when tables are appropriate, see Wikipedia:How to use tables.
Variables
(See also Wikipedia:Help:Variable)
| Code | Effect |
|---|---|
| {{CURRENTMONTH}} | 09 |
| {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} | September |
| {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}} | September |
| {{CURRENTDAY}} | 28 |
| {{CURRENTDAYNAME}} | Monday |
| {{CURRENTYEAR}} | 2009 |
| {{CURRENTTIME}} | 10:44 |
| {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} | 2,830 |
| {{PAGENAME}} | Editing |
| {{NAMESPACE}} | Help |
| {{localurl:pagename}} | /Pagename |
| {{localurl:Wikipedia:Sandbox|action=edit}} | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox?action=edit |
| {{SERVER}} | http://www.zeldawiki.org |
| {{ns:1}} | Talk |
| {{ns:2}} | User |
| {{ns:3}} | User talk |
| {{ns:4}} | Zelda Wiki.org |
| {{ns:5}} | Zelda Wiki.org talk |
| {{ns:6}} | File |
| {{ns:7}} | File talk |
| {{ns:8}} | MediaWiki |
| {{ns:9}} | MediaWiki talk |
| {{ns:10}} | Template |
| {{ns:11}} | Template talk |
| {{ns:12}} | Help |
| {{ns:13}} | Help talk |
| {{ns:14}} | Category |
| {{ns:15}} | Category talk |
| {{SITENAME}} | Zelda Wiki.org |
NUMBEROFARTICLES is the number of pages in the main namespace which contain a link and are not a redirect, i.e. number of articles, stubs containing a link, and disambiguation pages.
CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN is the genitive (possessive) grammatical form of the month name, as used in some languages; CURRENTMONTHNAME is the nominative (subject) form, as usually seen in English.
In languages where it makes a difference, you can use constructs like {{grammar:case|word}} to convert a word from the nominative case to some other case. For example, {{grammar:genitive|{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} means the same as {{CURRENTMONTHNAMEGEN}}.
Hiding the edit links
Insert __NOEDITSECTION__ into the document to suppress the edit links that appear next to every section header.
