Wiki Quick Help

From the Macscene Wiki

How to modify a page

When you want to modify a page, just click the Edit link in the header. Always use "Show Preview" before you save a page. It's undesired when there are 5 edits in one page in the Recent Pages section. So it's always a good choice to pick it before saving, just to save a lot of edits for a minor typo.

Creating a page

Method 1 - Internal Link

If you want to add a new page, just select the text you want to be the title of the page in a current page, and click the internal link button. A new page will be created and linked to that text when you hit submit. The links to new pages will be coded as "[[Example_Test_Page]]" and display as a red link in the article you edited. You can then click on the red link, and it will request that you fill in some information to create the page.

Method 2 - URL Editing

An alternate way would be to change the url to be what you want the page title to be named, and this will allow you to create that page. If you change http://www.emuscene.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page to http://www.emuscene.com/wiki/index.php/Example_Test_Page, then a new page will be created called "Example Test Page".

Categorizing Pages

To add a page to a specific category, add "[[Category: thenameofthecategory]]" without the quotes to the page.

Summary

Always enter a summary for your edits; this goes in the log history so that others know what you've done when you make changes.

Using a Template

Note: this is rather advanced, and required for some pages. Be sure to test it out on the test page if you need to before you edit a page with template requirements.

Creating a Template

First of all, create a page like you would any other page in this wiki. However, the name or url should start with "Template:". For example, if you wanted to make a template about file extensions or something of the sort, the article's name would be "Template:ExtensionsInfo" (keep the name informative).

This should bring up the edit dialog (since this page does not exist yet), or a blank page. The trick to making a template is to construct the page how you would want it to look. Just construct it in whichever HTML you want, and hit preview. The important part is how you want the variables to show up in this format.

If you are creating a table, and you want the top left corner to always contain information like "Name", then you would put the syntax "{{{NAME}}}" as the variable name. Repeat this in any place you want specified information to appear. The user will then use the variable "NAME" to fill in the information on another page.

Implanting a Template

First, open up the template you want to use in another window. Now, find an article you want to use it in, and edit the page. In order to follow the template, you need to fill in the variables (words marked in between "{{{" and "}}}"). To start, first you must include the name of the template you want to use, as such:

- {{TemplateName|

Basically, two brackets, the name of the Template (without the "Template:" prefix), and then a | character. Next, you must complete every variable in the template in this fashion:

- Varible1=Included text 1.|
- Varible2=[[Example_Link]]|

It is important to include the | marks at the end of each line. Otherwise, it's pretty straight forward. The only exception is the very last variable you include, as the lines are only to separate one variable from another. Finally, to end a template, you just use "}}". So all together, a template may look like:

- {{TemplateName|
- Varible=Text or code|
- }} 

Notes on Templates

• The only catch with Templates is that any variable must be resolved in the page it is used in. You cannot assign a varible's value to be another link. Code such as {{Users:Name/sig}} will not work.
• Also, for some of the templates, if you look at the discussions page for the template, it might contain an easy copy and paste section so that you can use a template quickly and easily.
• Please also see the Templates List.

Wiki Syntax

The Wiki uses a combination of Wiki markup and HTML to generate its pages; if you're unsure of how something will look, click the "Show preview" button instead of the "Save page" button to see what you've done before being subjected to the ridicule of everyone else.