Help:Contents

Latest revision as of 14:35, 21 May 2012

Welcome to the help page. This will serve as a helpful list of commands and syntax for the wiki, as well as providing other general instructions. If you need further help, please visit the wiki IRC channel on irc.forestnet.org on channel #2238wiki.

[edit] Wiki Syntax

General information about syntax and keywords common to all WikiMedia sites can be found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup

• Surrounding text with three apostrophes will make '''boldface''' appear as boldface.
• Surrounding text with two apostrophes will make ''italicized'' appear as italicized.
• Surrounding text with <u> and </u> will make <u>underlined</u> appear as underlined.
• Surrounding text with <s> and </s> will make <s>strikeout</s> appear as strikeout.
• Using the tag <br> will create a
  manual line break.
• Beginning a line with one asterisk * creates a bullet.
  • Using two stars ** at the beginning of a line will create an indented bullet, like in this line.
• Surrounding text with <nowiki> and </nowiki> will disable the wiki syntax for the surrounded text. For example, <nowiki>*</nowiki> will display as *, not as bullet.

[edit] Headings

• To create a heading such as the Wiki Syntax above, use == Wiki Syntax == .
  • Note : We never use the first headling, with only one = on each other of the title (For example = 1st Title = ; we always start at == 1st Title ==).
• To create a heading such as the Headings section here, use === Headings === .

[edit] Signature

On talk or discussion pages, or on the to do list for example, it might be useful to sign. Writing four tildes, like this: ~~~~ will display your name with a timestamp: Izual 19:29, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Creating Links

• Surrounding text with brackets will create a link inside the wiki, so [[Small Guns]] becomes a link to the small guns page at Small Guns.
• Using brackets again, posting an outside link inside the brackets, followed by a space, followed by a title, will create a link to another webpage. [http://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] becomes a link to the page http://www.wikipedia.org with the title 'Wikipedia' : Wikipedia. This can also be done with links inside the wiki like link, but the name of the page and the title of the link must be separated by a |.
• Links can also be created to subheadings of pages, for example [[Boneyard#Adytum]] links to the Adytum section of the Boneyard page in Boneyard#Adytum.

[edit] Redirects

• A redirect is a code that automatically links the user to one page when visiting another. For example, if .223 was searched for in this wiki, the page .223 has a redirect that automatically loads .223 FMJ. To create a redirect, use the code

#REDIRECT[[page]]

where page is the destination.

[edit] Uploading and Posting Images

• To upload a file, use the link in the 'toolbox' section of the menu on the left titled 'Upload file'.
• To keep quality consistent, it is recommended that you upload files in .gif format.
• To insert an image into a page, use [[File:meleeweapons.gif]] where meleeweapons.gif is the name of the file. However, it is strongly recommended to add thumbs. Just add |thumb| after the picture, so that it is : [[File:meleeweapons.gif|thumb|Description of the picture]]
• To adjust an image, use [[File:File.gif|200px|thumb|left|caption]] , which will display file.gif as 200 pixels wide, inside a box on the left side of the page, with the text 'caption' below it.

[edit] Manual:Collapsible elements - Spoilers

After the update of wiki engine to 1.19, we have a new feature, for hiding elements of the page. This should be used for spoilers. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Collapsible_elements