InuYasha Wiki:How to edit a wiki

This is a basic crash course in how to edit a wiki-style project. These skills are transferrable to the following projects:


 * Wikimedia
 * Wikinews
 * Wikipedia
 * Wikiquote
 * Wikispecies
 * Wikimedia commons
 * and any other Wikicities

Please experiment with the wikicode using the Sandbox.

What a wiki is
A wiki is a project that anyone with access to it can edit. Edits can be performed by registered users or anonymites (if that is a word). To become a user, sign up using the link at the top right of this or any other InuYasha page.

To sign your username to anything, just type ~. This will print your username.

How to construct and operate a wikilink
A wikilink is a shortcut between wikipages. A wikipage is any page in a wikimedia project.

Wikilinks are similar to hyperlinks (such as those found in 'normal' web pages) but are much easier to make. Simply choose the page destination and put brackets around it.

InuYasha

becomes

InuYasha

A wikilink that leads to a page will appear blue. A wikilink that leads to a page that does not exist will appear red.

Modified wikilinks
To have a wikilink say one thing and lead to another, do this:

Text

For 'InuYasha', that would look like this:

Text

which makes

Text

Lists and you
To make a lists, you have several options. To make a bulleted list, put an asterisk in front of each choice:

*One  *Two  *Three 

which makes


 * One
 * Two
 * Three

To make a numbered list, use the pound sign:


 * 1) One 
 * 2) Two 
 * 3) Three 

which makes


 * One
 * Two
 * 1) Three

To make an intdented list, use the colon:


 * One 

:Three 

and you get


 * One
 * Two
 * Three

Templates
A template is a piece of wikicode that can be accessed by calling it through template code. This works like wiki code. For instance, here is a template link:

Which links to the following template:

To create a template, create a link to a file whose name starts with template. Like this

Template:Your template here

Click on it and edit the page. That template can later by called by

ASCII Text
Very simple. Just hit a space at the beginng of a new line

To create text like this

An advantage of this is that everything is rendered in Courier New, a font in which all the characters are the same width. This lends itself nicely to easy, if primitive, formatting:

- |  | |   | -

Italics, Bolding and Strikethroughs

 * Italics: Like this to get this;
 * Bolding: Like this to get this', and
 * Strikethroughs: Like this to get this.

Administrivia
Assuming you are an admin, you have the power to pass along the wealth at Special:Makesysop.