#wiki help

To make a page, you can either click the new page button or a red link

Next, you’ll enter the name of the page. Note: If you clicked a red link, the name will already be entered for you.

You’ll be taken to a blank page. While it’s best to work in Source Mode, as a beginner it will be easier for you to use the Visual Editor, which is what will pop up. (note that once the code gets too complex on a page, the visual editor won’t work) The first thing we’ll want to add is a template. Click the “insert” button to view the menu, then click “templates.”

We want to add the WIP Template. This will add a cute little picture and box that lets people know that the page is a work in progress. It also puts the WIP category on it so that it’s easier to find. If you were editing in source mode, all you would have to write is {{WIP}}.

No need to enter anything here. It’s all set up for you.

Now that you have the WIP put in there, you can add an infobox. The infobox makes key information easy to find. The catch is, sometimes entries in it involve a bit of coding. Click insert>infobox. This is what will open.

(Note: I had to take a screenshot of the text above because some of the code wasn’t showing. I completely overlooked that typo and now Grammarly has it underlined in red to shame me for perpetuity.)

Since I already had the picture uploaded, all I had to do was search for it. But! I should have given it a better name when uploading it so that when I searched for “south sea monsters” it would pop up. A better file name would have been South_Sea_Monsters.png

I filled out everything I know here, so it’s time to click Apply Changes again.

Our page is starting to look pretty!

This is how it looks in the source editor

It’s good to check in there to learn how the coding works. Some things can only be done with the source editor and with coding, like anime and manga tabs for the infobox pictures. Next, we add the main text.

Bolding and creating headlines can be done using the formatting bar like you would in a word processor. Adding sources is easy too. With your cursor at the end of the relevant sentence, click Insert>Reference

You’ll get a little box that looks like this:

When adding sources, it’s important to be sure to note if you’re referring to AoS or someone will look in the main series and they won’t find what they’re looking for! The chapter (Night) is the most important information to include, but please include the page and volume information if you have it.

Now the page is set up!

This is what it looks like in the Source Editor. As you can see, the coding is pretty easy to pick up.

It can be a good idea to check similar pages to see what headings and formats they have. Now, you have the bare bones of a page! At this point, it’s a good idea to save. You can always go back and edit some more!

Leaving a summary is nice because it lets others know what you changed.

That’s a nice page! But, if you’re like me, you forgot something…

The categories! As I said earlier, the WIP category makes it easy to find pages that need work, but it can also help keep the wiki organized in other ways. You’ll find the Add category button at the bottom of the page. You can check similar pages to see what kinds of categories they have, but in this case, we haven’t made any similar pages. I’m going to put them in the Kingdom of Sindria category because they’re common there. If I’m messing up, I suppose someone can always fix it later ^^; Mistakes aren’t a big deal.

Go ahead and click that save button! That was a lot of work! Do you have to do all that?

NO!

This is our Sindrian War page.

It’s nowhere near finished, but the page is at least a little bit set up, so it makes things easier for someone else later. If you want to just make the page and write a few sentences, that’s fine.