LOTC:Page Creation Guide
This guide contains all the steps required for a player such as yourself to submit their first wiki page. It will help you on how to start browsing the wiki, how to get an account, and of course, on how to create pages with proper formatting. A video version of this guide is also available for those who prefer to save their eyes the effort of reading. Timestamps will be included for quick navigation to sections of the video guide. Furthermore, there's also the original forum post by ex-WikiTeam director Destinator.
Contents
The wiki can be found at https://wikia.lordofthecraft.net, or by clicking on the wiki button on the forum bar. If you are having trouble loading the page, make sure that you are including “https://” as this may solve the issue.
Two important pages that are useful for general editing are the Wiki Player Handbook and Wiki Priority List
The Handbook contains the Wiki Rules in addition to editing suggestions and formatting tips. The Priority List is a tiered, prioritized list of what the Wiki Team wants completed and how urgent the tasks are. If one wishes to help out the most, simply take a look at the high priority tasks.
Wiki Account Creation and Logging In
Before you can begin editing on the wiki you must first obtain a Wiki Account. This can be done by contacting any Wiki Team member and providing them with a user name and email. A temporary password will be sent to the email which will allow you to log in to your Wiki Account. The login button is found in the upper right corner. After logging in, you are free to change your password to whatever you please.
Creating the Page
To create the page, first search the title you want for the page in the search bar. Make sure to use the exact wording that you wish the final title to have. If a similar topic appears in the results and has already been covered, do not create a duplicate page. Once confirming that the page has not been created yet, the option to create the page should appear in Red at the top of the list. Clicking on this red link leads to the creation box.
Utilizing Backbones
It may look daunting to start a page from scratch. Therefore the Wiki Team has created an assortment of pre-made page templates, called backbones, to assist in the writing process. By opening a new tab and navigating back to the wiki player handbook, or searching for backbones in the search bar, or clicking this link, the list of backbones can be found. Simply choose the backbone that seems to be most related to the page you are creating.
Upon clicking on one of these pages, you're met with a fully laid out template for a wiki page of that category. To copy this backbone to the creating box for the page you're creatomg, you must click on edit, on the top right of the page, to view the source information. Then copy this text and paste it in the creation box where you will be writing your page. Note it is recommended to write pages in an external program such as Google Docs or Word to prevent data loss. Now all you must do is fill in the information as suggested in the backbone. Do note that not everything on the backbone must be completed or utilized – it is simply a writing assistant and starting point for page creation. You may certainly include information that is not covered in the backbone.
Also: An important little detail that is key to the categorization and organisation of the wiki, make sure NOT to copy the "noinclude>[Category:Backbone]</noinclude" part at the bottom of the page.
Basic Formatting
This part of the guide will help you to start properly formatting your page. Because the formatting and coding of wiki pages is a wide field of information, we've split it up into seperate parts.
Headings
Headings are designated by equals signs. Ex: =Heading= One equals sign on each side means a first level heading, while two equals signs designates a second level heading, and so on. This can be used to neatly organize your page and make it look more appealing.
Table Of Contents
A table of contents will automatically be created for the page and placed near the top. However, when is placed anywhere on the page, no table of contents is created. It is common practice to place this on the first line of the page. On the other hand, if you would like the Table of Contents to be placed in a specific location instead of on top of the page, simply type and the table of contents will be placed in that location.
HTML
Html can be used on the Wiki’s platform, Mediawiki, to some extent. Not all Html will work correctly and things such as CSS cannot be used at all. If you would like to spruce up your page with your own Html, feel free to do so, although this will make it more difficult for people to contribute to your page in the future as not everybody is learned in coding.
Links
A useful feature of the wiki is the easy way to link to other pages on the wiki. By putting two brackets around a word, a link is automatically created to a page with that title on the wiki.
To link a web address, copy the address within single brackets. Put a space after the address and then a word to have that work link to the web address.
Ex: [www.lordofthecraft.net Link]
Italic and Bold
For italicizing and bolding parts of text, simply select the part of text that you wish to italicize or bold, then go to the top of the editing window, and click either the B for Bold or the I for Italic. Do note however that it is recommended to use this in moderation, for overusing this feature makes the page look less pleasing.
