Help

Creating a Page

Creating a new page is very easy, and can be done straight from your URL bar.

Take this:

http://wiki.aetolia.com/Help

And replace with this:

http://wiki.aetolia.com/My New Page

This will of course lead you to a screen telling you (usually) that the page doesn't exist. Click edit this page to get started.

Alternatively, and probably a little more conveniently, you can simply enter the name of the page you wish to create in the Search box, and if it doesn't already exist, you can create it from there.

Links

Links are super easy! [[YourPage]] See? That'd link to YourPage, if it existed on the wiki. To link to an external site, simply enter the link in as normal text, and it should be automatically changed to a link once you save/preview the page.

You can also use alternative text for your link. To do this, just do the following: [[YourPage|MY PAGE!]] You can do the same for external links: [http://www.aetolia.com Aetolia!]

Anchors

Notice how you can click on a heading on the table of contents and it takes you to that header? You can add this functionality to your page - without using headers. See here:

<span id=bobisawhore>Well, bob is a right whore</span>

That'll make that little bit of text be referrable in links as "bobisawhore", to refer to an anchored position on a page, simply link it thusly [[YourPage#YourAnchor]]

Images

To upload an image, you need to click on the 'Upload file' link on the toolbox to the left. Once you go through all that jibberjabbery, you can put your image on the wiki with the following text: [[Image:MyImage.jpg]]

Redirection

As we are not all mind-readers and do not possess a comprehensive mental map of the entire Wiki, sometimes you forget, and you put a link to Artifact Armor where it should have been Artifact Armour. As you'll notice, however, clicking Artifact Armor takes you directly to the Artifact Armour page. How? The #REDIRECT command.

To use it, simply create (or edit) the page you wish to have redirect, and enter #REDIRECT [[PageName]] at the very top of the edit box, where PageName is the article you want to redirect to. Like crazy Numerology magic, clicking the redirecting link will take you instantly to the intended page.

Redirects are useful for instances in which many articles link to a page that hasn't been created yet, but small discrepancies in the page's name crop up. If, for example, half of the Subterfuge skill articles linked to the Syssin, but the other half linked to the Syssin Defenders, it might be desirable to create the Syssin Defenders page, and put a redirect to Syssin. It's a lot easier than changing all the links, eh?

Templates

Just like forum signatures, everyone knows the best way to make a document look professional is to add myriad blinking lights and enormous, italicized text to it. With templates, this is not just possible, but a cinch! Templates all have unique names, and are added to a point in the page by entering {{TEMPLATE}} wherever you wish to put it, TEMPLATE being, obviously, the name of the template.

For a complete list of templates and what they do, see Templates.

Signatures

Signing off in discussion/talk pages is considered polite. After all, we don't want to have to search through the page's history just to figure out who the hell said something.

Standard signature: --~~~

Hyphens and a name.

Ex: --Lin

Extended signature: --~~~~

Leaves a timestamp. Handy, but not entirely necessary. Recommended on very long talk pages.

Ex: --Lin 05:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Simple signature: {{User|YourNameHere}}

Hyphens and your name in bold, plus a link to your talk page and a list of edits you have made. Note: This uses a template: click here.

Ex: --Lin ^{(talk · contr)}

Custom Signatures

A custom signature is possible, and quite easy to create. All that is required is a special page under your user page that contains the contents of your signature.

Create a new page with the following name: User:YourNameHere/X. This can be done by manually typing in the page name into your URL bar after "wiki.aetolia.com/" (Ex: wiki.aetolia.com/User:Lin/sig). Alternatively, you can enter User:YourNameHere/X into the Search bar, and click on the option to create the page. For X, I recommend using sig.
Use the new page to design the custom signature. Anything from regular text to images may be used, though if your signature is too big, you may be required to resize it. You may view this signature for an example. Note that timestamps (~~~~~) cannot be entered into templates.
Once it's finished, you can sign off with it by entering {{User:YourNameHere/X}}.

Ex: {{User:Lin/sig}}

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