How To Use Wiki

From Justice Force

1 Links
2 Formating
3 Heading
- 3.1 Heading
4 Templates

Wiki is a text-based web page formating system that allows many users to edit and expand a website without the need of special web editors or file transfer programs.

While most of what is written in Wiki is simple text, Wiki allows additional commands to be placed inside the text. These commands vary based on what version of Wiki is used. This Wiki system uses three types of embedded commands: formatting, links, and templates

[edit] Links

Web pages are based around the concept of links: clicking on one sends you to the page you click on. In Wiki, most links are intended to link you to another page on the same website. This means you don't need to know anything more about the page other than its name.

Links are designated in Wiki using double brackets: [[link]]

The name inside the brackets is the name of the web page you wish to link to. In the aboves case, Wiki would redirect the user to a page named link.

In some cases, you want the text for the link to be different from the name of the page. An example might be:

You'll find this help file by clicking [[here]]!

We don't want the page to be named "here". We can make the page's text and the page's link separate by separating them by a | (pipe) character like this:

You'll find the Table of Contents by clicking [[Table_of_Contents|here]]!

The link will look like this here.

To link an image, your link should be called "Image:<filename>". An example might be [[Image:Fitness Quick.png|18px]] which looks like this:

The 18px, in this case, isn't the text displayed, but the size of the image in pixels. In this fashion, Wiki can shrink images. In addition to "Image:" as a page prefix, you can also use "Category:" which takes you to an automatically generated web page that contains an alphabetical list of all pages of that category. "Category:Hero" is a very common one on this site. If you use the link [[Category:Hero]] at the bottom of a page, it will not only add a link to this category on your hero page, but add your page to that category as well. If you want to make a link to a category but not include your page in that category, use [[:Category:Hero]] instead.

To edit a page, go to the page, and click on the edit tab at the top of the screen. If the page doesn't exist, add a link to an existing page, view the page, and click on the new link. Wiki will automatically bring up the editor for new links.

[edit] Formating

There are several commands for formating, which can get quite elaborate. Some basics though are headings, line items, and line breaks.

Headings consist of words surrounded by a series of equals signs. One set of equal signs on either side like this: = Heading = will look like this:

[edit] Heading

Two sets of equals on either side like this: == Heading == will look like this:

[edit] Heading

Remember that a heading needs to be on its own line and that you must put a space after the opening set of equals and before the closing set.

For line items, place an asterisk followed by a space at the start of a line. For a list of

* apples
* pears
* oranges

it will look like:

apples
pears
oranges

Line breaks (and some other formating commands) are done inside of opening and closing < > marks, just like HTML. A line break <br clear="all" /> will break text up or prevent images from being side by side.

Some other HTML commands like <b> </b> also will work. Experiment with a few.

[edit] Templates

Templates sound complicated, but they are merely the embedding of Wiki commands, text, or images from elsewhere into your page. Templates are marked on Wiki pages by using double curly brakets: {{Template}}

Creating your own templates can be complicated, but there are some built in ones that you can use on your pages that are handy:

The template {{TOCright}} places a table of contents of all your headings on the right side of the page
The template {{Character Data | ... }} is used on hero pages to nicely format information about your character. The following text:

[[Image:Night_Dimension.jpg|60px|left]]
{{Character Data
|Name='''Night Dimension'''
|Level=46
|Archetype={{Scrapper}}
|Origin={{Magic}}
|Supergroup=[[Justice Force]]
|Rank={{Justice Force Member}}
}}

will look like this:

Name: Night Dimension
Security Level: 46
Archetype: Scrapper
Origin: Magic
Supergroup: Justice Force
Rank: Member

The template {{Power List|...}} allows you to embed a table of your powers one column at a time by designating the powerset and powers. For example, the following wiki text:

{{Power List|Float=left
|Powerset=Dark Melee
|Power1=Shadow Punch
|Power2=Smite
|Power3=Shadow Maul
|Power4=Touch of Fear
|Power5=Midnight Grasp
|Power6=Blank
|Power7=Blank
}}

will look like this:

Smite

Currently, some power sets are not fully implemented on this web site. It is fairly easy to do, but if you'd rather, contact an administrator and they can do it for you.

Lastly, you will commonly see people showing off all their characters at the bottom of every one of their character pages. This is done by creating a custom template just for themselves. To do so, create a template link like this:

{{@Night Dimension}}

Substitute your own global chat name in the brackets instead of mine. When you save the page and click on the link, it will place you into the editor, as if you created a new wiki page (you in fact have!).

The following:

{{Character List Header|Global=@NightDimension}}
{{Character Row|Name=Night Dimension|Level=46|Archetype=Scrapper|Powerset=Dark Melee/Regeneration|Server=ParagonWiki:Servers{{!}}Virtue}}
{{Character Row|Name=Black Dwarf|Level=29|Archetype=Scrapper|Powerset=Martial Arts/Super Reflexes|Server=ParagonWiki:Servers{{!}}Virtue}}
{{Character Row|Name=Mr. Grace|Level=9|Archetype=Controller|Powerset=Mind Control/Kinetics|Server=ParagonWiki:Servers{{!}}Virtue}}
{{Character List Footer}}

contains references to a Wiki template called "Character List", which looks a lot like the Power List template above. Substitute in your own characters, and save.

Now, the following: {{@Night Dimension}}

will look like this:

@NightDimension
Name	SL	AT	Powersets	Server
Night Dimension	46		Dark Melee/Regeneration	Virtue
Black Dwarf	29		Martial Arts/Super Reflexes	Virtue
Mr. Grace	9		Mind Control/Kinetics	Virtue