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.
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Quality Guidelines
Who do you think we are? Wikipedia???
There, however, some basic guidelines:
- Make the page look nice (no signing your name on a page, use lists/tables, etc)
- Spell as good as you can
Basic Formatting
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. For an example on how it works, click on the previous link.
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 that you don't ruin all the pages that use it - make it '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 overused) when possible 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.
