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General
- To add to or edit any content on the wiki you must have an account.
- To create a new page you must first search for the topic you wish to create, if the wiki does not find the topic you will be offered the option to create a new page with the title of your search entry.
- To see all pages click on Special Pages and you will see All Pages listed.
- You can also see all new pages under the same Special Pages link.
- You can see the list of categories by going the Special Pages link and selected Categories, which will show you a list of current categories. To add a page to a category, look a the cheat sheet for instructions.
- There is a helpful cheet sheet of the commands on the wikimedia site: Cheat Sheet
Adding Tables
Adding Pictures
The picture must be on your computer to add pictures. You can not add pictures on the web.
- To add a picture to a page click the Embedded Image icon at the top of the edit box when editting a page.
Alternatively:
- You can also type [[Image:imagename.jpg]] where imagename.jpg is the name you make up for the picture you intend to upload.
- Then replace the name of the picture with what you want to call the picture.
- Save the page
- Click the link in the page for the picture
- A dialog to browse the file and upload will be presented.
- To make the picture show up as a thumb nail (HIGHLY recommended!) use the following [[Image:imagename.jpg|thumb]]
Adding a Gallery
Sample code:
<gallery>
image:newbie.jpg|New Player Housing
image:darkforest.jpg|Dark Forest
</gallery>
See: Screen Shots
Administration
There is a general need to help administer the site, to help you will need an account.
Dead-End Pages
The primary need is to make sure all pages have links away from them and to them. To see what pages are not currently linked, please go to Special Pages and then select Dead-end pages. This will give you a list of pages not currently linked.
Edit the page and put double square brackets [ around words to create links to other articles. If when you save the page, the link comes up in red, that means the article you wanted to link to DOES NOT EXISTS. This may mean the link has not been created, but it may also mean that you have the spelling, pluralization or capitalization of the link wrong. You will need to search for the term to make sure you have it correct.
Its ok to leave a link in the red if you are SURE its not a spelling, pluralization or capitalization problems. This will encourage others to provide the information.
You will also then need to see of the page you are working on is referred to by other pages. To check this, enter the title of the page in the search box and press SEARCH (not go), this should show you a list of pages that use the term. Edit each of those pages putting the double brackets around the article term so that the pages can link to the article you are working on.
Categories
All lengthy documents, more then a few short sentences should be categorized. Creating categories isn’t difficult from a technical perspective, see the Cheat Sheet for the entry. However I'm sure it will take us quite a while to actually get the right set of categories figured out. So do your best, and try to use existing Categories when ever possible.
