Quick Start Guide

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Welcome to the Quickstart guide

Feel free to edit this as you learn more tricks. The ultimate guide is here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents

An easy way to create a page

Creating a page

  1. Search for the page.
  2. If the page does not already exist, you can then click the create page link. Your page name may have capital, lowercase letters, numbers, periods, some other punctuation, but not punctuation, so don't get too crazy with accents and such.
  3. When adding a page, please add a category of your choosing as the last text in your page. It is done like this: '[[Category:Category Name]]', For example Planet Blake is: '[[Category:Planet Blake]]'. A page can have multiple categories. You might wish to develop a category specifically for things in your world in addition to helpful updates elsewhere.

Formatting a page

  • To make a section, bracket the title in 2 or more equal signs like this '==Page Section==' '===Page Subsection==='
  • A concise formatting guide is here. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
  • To upload a png, jpg, jpeg, or gif, look to the column to the left, click 'Upload File'. Adding a brief summary and noting the filename.png is helpful.
  • Image inclusion syntax: . '[[File:filename.png|thumb|500px|About the image]]'
  • If you wonder how a feature on a page was done, just click the edit and see without making changes.
  • To add a bullet point to your list, add '*' at the beginning of a line.
  • To add a number in a list, add '#' at the beginning of a line in a sequence of lines.