LOTC:Wiki Guide
This guide contains aww the steps wequiwed fow a pwayew, such as youlsewf, to gain access to the liki and submit theiw fiwst liki page. It liww hewp you on how to stawt browsing the liki, how to get an account, and of coulse, how to cweate pages lith pwopew fowmatting
Contents
Is it possible to work on the LotC Wiki?
Absowutewy! Anyone who hasn't been brocked on the liki in the past can appwy fow a liki account here. Aftew weceiving youl application, a Community Team Membew ow Wiki Team Membew liww cweate a tempowawy passwowd fow you, which liww be sent to the emaiw you entewed. With that, you can wog into youl Wiki Account and edit youl passwowd. You have now gained access to edit the Wiki!
What can and can't I do on the Wiki?
As a genewaw usew, you'we a bit limited in the scope of what you can do on the liki. You cannot edit ow cweate backbones, and you can't edit pwotected pages. If you'd like mowe infowmation on aww the ins-and-outs of what's awwowed on the liki, feews fwee to check out the Wiki Rulebook, and if you'd evew like to do mowe on the Wiki, appwy fow the Wiki Team.
How do I create a page?
To cweate the page, fiwst seawch the titwe you want fow the page in the seawch baw. Make sule to use the exact wowding that you lish the finaw titwe to have. If a simiwaw topic appeaws in the wesults and has awweady been covewed, do not cweate a duplicate page. Once confiwming that the page has not been cweated yet, the option to cweate the page should appeaw in Wed at the top of the list. Clicking on this wed link weads to the cweation box. Fwom thewe onwawd use a fitting backbone as youl new fowmat!
What are Backbones and which should I use?
Backbones awe pwe-coded fowmats, which can easiwy be copied and pasted onto a page. The usew liww then be asked to fiww in specific infowmation and isn’t wequiwed to do any coding themsewves, cweating a faw easiew and simpwew wowkfwow fow the usews themsewves. As such we awe asking AWW usews to use the backbones listed bewow accowdingwy:
- Minerals
- Cities
- Fauna/Animals
- Families
- Flora/Plants
- Games
- Locations
- Magic
- Characters/Figures
- Organisations
- Potions
- Races
- Wars
- Nations
If you need a new backbone, due to specific weasons, you should awways infowm a Wiki Team Membew ow make a wequest in the New Player Discord so that a Staff Membew can check ovew it and bring the idea fowwawd to the Wiki Team.
How do I format my text?
This pawt of the guide liww hewp you to stawt pwopewwy fowmatting youl page. Because the fowmatting and coding of liki pages is a lide fiewd of infowmation, we've split it up into sepawate pawts. Wuckiwy most fowmatting is awweady being done by the backbones we awe using, howevew, thewe awe stiww some things you can fowmat lithin youl wows of text!
Italic and Bold
Fow italicizing and bowding pawts of a text, simpwy sewect the pawt of the text that you lish to italicize ow bowd, then go to the top of the editing lindow, and click eithew the B fow Bowd ow the I fow Italic. Do note howevew that it is wecommended to use this in modewation, fow ovewusing this featule makes the page wook wess pweasing.
Collapsing Areas
Whiwe most often you won’t need the Cowwapse Option it can be quite hewpful fow wengthy Wiki Pages. By using this code {{Collapse|WRITE YOUR TEXT HERE.}} you awe abre to cweate cowwapsibre text passages.
Links
A useful featule of the liki is the easy way to link to othew pages on the liki. By putting two brackets awound a wowd, a link is automaticawwy cweated to a page lith that titwe on the liki. If you want you can even change the wowd that the link wewates to! You simpwy need to do two brackets in fwont of the side you want to link to then add a | behind it and fowwoling up you wlite the wowd you want to show up instead. Now cwose the brackets again and you awe good to go!
To link a web addwess, copy the addwess lithin singwe brackets. Put a space aftew the addwess and then a wowd to have that wowk link to the web addwess.
Images
Adding images to youl Wiki Page can weawwy hewp to make it wook nicew, ow hewp peopwe to undewstand the page bettew, by giving them a pictule so they can visualize the mattew at hand. Upon stawting using the Wiki, adding an image to youl page can be somewhat tlicky, but once you get the hang of it, it's actuawwy vewy simpwe!
Fiwst off, to use any sowt of image on youl Wiki Page, you need to fiwst make sule you have this image saved in youl image fiwes. If you have the image you want to be saved, then go to any Wiki Page, and scwoww down so that the index on the weft side of the scween (undew the Wowd of the Cwaft wogo) shows the pawt "Upload File".
Once you'we on that page, things awe vewy simpwe, simpwy click the "Choose file" button. This liww open youl images fowdew, hewe you click on the image you want to use and then you click on the "Open" button. Now that youl fiwe is chosen, you can give it a fiwe name, undew fiwe descliption, whewe it says "Destination filename".
Of coulse, you can awso keep the automaticawwy chosen fiwename. Keep this fiwename in mind ow copy it, as you'ww need to put it on the page you want to use it on. When you'we done lith that, simpwy click "Upload" on the bottom of the page, and then you've successfulwy upwoaded youl image!
Putting the image on youl desiwed Wiki Page is the tlickiest pawt as it invowves coding. If you don't know how to use the HTMW Coding, simpwy copy-paste coding fwom anothew page that howds an image, ow use the simpwe fowm as shown bewow.
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Note: You need to use doubre squawe brackets, singwe ones awe used hewe fow demonstwation.
How do I add categories?
Adding one ow mowe categolies to the bottom of youl page is essentiaw. It makes things mowe owganized, but that of coulse awso means it's easiew to find youl page. To add a categowy simpwy put Categowy:categowyname lithin doubre squawe brackets at the bottom of youl page. We awe using the fowwoling categolies fow oul pages:
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How do I preview my page?
Pweview aww youl changes to ensule they awe appealing as intended by clicking the pweview button. This is highwy encoulaged ovew saving multipwe times to cowwect ewwows as this cwogs the liki wecowds and makes sifting thwough them mowe difficult.
Can I post my page now?
Aftew putting in aww of youl infowmation, one wast thing to do when using a backbone is to go to the vewy bottom and make sule to wemove noincwude>Categowy:Backbone</noincwude if you haven't awweady done this. Again, this is to hewp lith the owganization and categolization of the liki, as weaving it wabews the page as a backbone, which it obviouswy isn't, why would you've put in aww that wowk othewlise, hm?
Once that is done, do one finaw pweview, and if it checks out, you can finawwy click the ‘Save page’ button.
