Editing Guide
Hey! This page is here to help new people with editing and creating pages in the wiki. All the basic MediaWiki editing knowledge applies, so this page will just point out more specific things like the templates that are available, doing citations and infoboxes.
Theme
Because this wiki's default theme uses the PICO-8 font, capitalized characters are the same as non-capitalized ones. However, people may still choose to use other skins. Because of this, it's recommended to always capitalize your text properly (you can check this in the source editor when editing a page).
Templates
You can see all the templates available by using the search function (they'll be in the Template namespace and will have a "Template:" prefix). Templates can be used by typing {{templatename}} The most useful ones right now are:
- Template:Stub
- Template:Citation needed
- Template:Ambox (for making message boxes like the stub one)
Infoboxes
Infoboxes are defined as templates (there aren't a lot right now), and you can make one appear the same way as a template, while also adding arguments! Here's an example using Template:Game:
{{game
|title = Celeste Classic
|release = 2015
|authors = Noel Berry, Maddy Thorson
|image = Cc cover.png
}}
Images will need to be uploaded to the server before being used, see Special:Upload.
You can create your own Infobox template using the Infobox Builder!
Citations
You can (and should, when possible) add citations to your work. To do this, simply add a <ref> tag after the text, for example:
Testing![1]
is written as: <ref>This is a reference!</ref>
References are always added at the bottom of the page, so you should add a header to indicate where they start, like so: ==References==
This is what's being done below!
In case you can't add a citation to something that you think should have one, use the Citation needed template!
References
- ↑ This is a reference!
