CoCWiki:Wiki Help

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This page is meant to be a guide for all CoCWiki Editors. For additional information, see the generic wiki help site.

Contents 1 Creating a Wiki Account 2 Starting a New Page 2.1 Using Wikilinks 2.2 Using the URL 2.3 From the search page 2.4 Create redirects to your new page 3 Basic Formatting 3.1 Making Lists 3.2 New Lines and Dividers 3.3 Links 4 Advanced Features 4.1 Templates 4.1.1 Using 4.1.2 Creating 4.2 Tables 4.3 Magic Words

Creating a Wiki Account

To create a wiki account, you can PM Gems, or a Wiki CD (currently Logic and Karma) in-game. Alternatively, you can email Gems.

Starting a New Page

There are several unique ways to start a new page on the Wiki. The following below list the best ways currently known to Wiki Editors in general. There may be other methods, but these are the most common and easy-to-use.

An Important Note: The following information directly below under the 'Starting a New Page' section is derived and a variation from the original source found here at MediaWiki. Several links in this section lead to additional help articles hosted on the MediaWiki website.

Using Wikilinks

It is very easy to link wiki pages using a standard syntax (see below). If you (or anyone else) creates a link to an article that doesn't exist yet, the link will be coloured red, like this.

Clicking a red link will take you to the edit page for the new article. Simply type your text, click save and the new page will be created.

Once the page has been created, the link will change from red to blue (purple for pages you've visited) indicating that the article now exists.

Usually this is the best way to create a new page, because it means that right from the start, the page will be linked from at least one other place on the wiki (and typically you will want to mesh it into other related pages later). If you are creating a new page without creating any link to it, you may need to ask yourself: Does this page really fit in with the topics already covered in the wiki? Also, how are you expecting visitors to find this page? Normally there is no reason to create a page without first creating a red link to it.

Using the URL

You can use the wiki's URL for creating a new page. The URL to an article of the wiki is usually something like this:

• http://www.example.net/index.php/ARTICLE    or
• http://www.example.net/wiki/ARTICLE

If you replace ARTICLE with the name of the page you wish to create, you will be taken to a blank page which indicates that no article of that name exists yet. Clicking the "Edit" page tab at the top of the page will take you to the edit page for that article, where you can create the new page by typing your text, and clicking submit.

From the search page

If you search for a page that doesn't exist (using the search box and “Go” button on the left of the page) then you will be provided with a link to create the new page. (Note that this technique doesn't work if you use the “Search” button).

Create redirects to your new page

Don't forget to setup redirects when you create a page. If you think another person may search for the page you've created by using a different name or spelling, please create the proper redirect(s). See below.

Basic Formatting

Formatting in the Wiki is a fairly easy language and skill to master. Coding and editing relate similarly to the way HTML markup on forums function. Users with no prior knowledge can still easily learn to master the Wiki and become valuable contributors by reading guides, tutorials, tips, and explanations provided by many helpful internet sites.

The following below is a basic outline of just some of the formatting you can do in the Wiki. If you'd like more information on all the formatting options and features that the Wiki has to offer, you can go to the following link: Formatting Help

Making Lists

Bullets

When making a list of anything, consider using bullets to make it look cleaner. You can do this by adding an asterisk (*) at the beginning of each line:

 *Item1
 *Item2
 *Item3

becomes:

• Item1
• Item2
• Item3

Indent

Another option is to use indentation to show a list. This should be used almost every time you have a list that doesn't use a table or bullets you should indent it. This is done by using : before each item.

:Item1
:Item2
:Item3

becomes:

Item1

Item2

Item3

New Lines and Dividers

To add a new line, hitting enter won't always work. Instead you must use the Html form - <br/>.

Line 1
<br/>
Line 2
<br/><br/>
Line 3
Line 4

becomes:
Line 1
Line 2

Line 3 Line 4

To add a divider line, insert four dashes (----).

----

becomes:

---

Please use dividers sparingly.

Links

Internal

Internal Links link to another article within this wiki. You create them by typing: [[Name of Article|Text to be linked]].

[[Main Page|Click here to go back to the main page.]]

becomes: Click here to go back to the main page. You can leave out everything after the name of the page if you wish.

External

External links are links that lead to another page outside of the wiki. Create them with: [URL Text to Be linked].
Note that you use a space, not a pipe symbol (|) to separate the url and text.

[http://www.callofcombat.com/ Click here to go to CoC's home page!]

looks like: Click here to go to CoC's home page!

Advanced Features

Templates

Using

Templates are in a sense similar to mad libs. They are pages with missing information that can be filled in and put on another page. The best example is the player template.

Creating

Make sure your template is generic enough to be used in many pages, but specific enough so you can minimize the number of parameters. Also try to make it possible to minimize the number of templates on a single page, so that when possible you should add on to an existing template instead of creating a new one. When updating a template make sure it's backwards-compatible with older versions. For example, don't change a parameter called title to one named name since all the pages that use that template will be ruined.

Tables

Tables are an important part of maintaining neatness and should be used (though not abused) when appropriate to eliminate lists. See this tutorial on how to make tables.

Magic Words

No, not please and thank you! Magic words are words you can type that will have an effect on the article. The most common are:

• #REDIRECT
• __FORCETOC__
• __TOC__
• __NOTOC__

To redirect a page, simply put:

#REDIRECT [[PageToGoTo]]

Note that you can't have a redirect page direct to another redirect page. You also should not have anything else on the page that you used #REDIRECT. To force a Table of contents to appear on a page that is normally too small to have one, include __FORCETOC__ at the top of the page. To add a Table of contents in an unusual spot, put __TOC__ where you want it to appear. You cannot have more than one table of contents per page. To remove a table of contents, insert __NOTOC__ into the beginning of the page.