InuYasha Wiki:How to edit a wiki

A wiki is set around the idea of contributing information. This page will explain crucial elements to or editing a page on the InuYasha Wiki. '''Please notice that this is a brief guide of how to edit on InuYasha Wiki (or a wiki). There are still other things that are not mentioned.'''

To practice the things you have learned here, go to the Sandbox page.

The Basics
In a wiki, the script text we use is called "Wikitext", also as "Wiki markup". Wikitext is a common language for editing a wiki. You can either create a page or edit one. Here will be the basic essentials to edit in a wiki.

Text formation
Here are several ways to format your text:
 * To Bold text, put 3 quotes around the text  Text here 
 * To Italicize text, put 2 quotes around the text  Text here 
 * To create text bullets, place an asterisk in front of the text at the start of the line. You can add multiple asterisks which will result in bulleted sub-levels.
 * Like so.
 * For numbered lists, put a # in front of the text.
 * Use a colon : at the beginning for indenting text, and multiple colons will add more spaces, for example:
 * First level
 * Second level

Links
To create a link to a page in the InuYasha wiki database (an internal link), place double square braces around the keyword: text here

If the link is red, then that means the page for it has not yet been created. If it is blue that means a page exists.

And to create a link that is outside of the wiki, just add a single brace on each side of the site's url.

[URL here]

Embedding files
Another thing you will learn is how to add files to wiki page. But before you can insert an image into a wiki page you must upload it to the wiki. On the "On the Wiki" section of the navigation bar of the wiki there are links that say "Photos" (for images and audio files) and "Videos". When you upload a file to the wiki you must license the file. To see what copyright you should attach to the file, see InuYasha Wiki:Image policy.

After uploading a file (including images, audio files, and video files), put



The "thumb" part means the file is a thumbnail and it will automatically align to the right when you insert it. To have the image align to the left, just add "|left".

Templates
If you want to put a "stub" tag on an article that is too short simply put two brackets on name of the template (case sensitive excluded the first letter)

If you want to put a template onto the article page, put brackets around the template's name and put it in the edit box (usually at the end of a page). Here is an example of what to type for a specific template. In this case, Template:Fair use:

The template also has a second parameter, for instance:

Please note that parameters are case sensitive, make sure it matches the template documentation in the template page.

Categorization
Another important step is adding a category to your article. When you add a category it makes it easier to find the articles. By default, you're able to add categories to article by clicking on the "Add category" at the bottom of the page. And in Classic Editor as well as Source Editor, it is located on the right side. Adding a category with the tool is the same as you type into the page:

Category:category name

If you were to make a page about a minor character in, the page should be placed under the Minor characters category. Note that an article can be part of several categories, simply use that tag several times. Common formating suggests that category tags go at the end of the page.


 * check out what categories already exist and use them - try and put your article in a relevant and highly populated (and hence highly connected) category, and more people are likely to stumble across it.

Furthermore, to add your article to a category but order it differently (e.g. to file your article on "Joe Bloggs" as "Bloggs, Joe" - which would be handy, for the People category in particular) then use this formatting:

Bloggs, Joe

Signing
To sign your username to a discussion page, click the button on the editing bar with the swirly text (second to last). Or you can type four tildes:

~

Miscellaneous
To add a horizontal line (use sparingly) to page, type four dashes:

For prefromatted boxes, start each line with a space.

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