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Latest revision as of 03:20, 21 January 2019


Welcome to the How To guide. On this page you will find all of the information you will need to keep the wiki pages up to date. If you don't see it here or have wiki questions, add something about it in the 'Discussion' talk page and it will be added asap.

Basics

Must Haves

To fit in with the other pages, and to make searching pages easier, all pages must have the following (with some exceptions):

No Edits
First off every page must have this, __NOEDITSECTION__ anywhere on the page. It doesn't matter where on the page it is located it just has to be there. This will remove the 'edit' tags on the right side of the page under each heading.

Categories
All pages must be listed in a category. If you scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see a black box that says Categories: and lists the categories that the page is linked into (for example, this page falls into the "Admin" category. Doing this helps to classify pages so that the respective departments know what pages they have.

To put in a category tag, you simply type [[Category: CATEGORY-NAME ]] and replace CATEGORY-NAME with the appropriate name. You can find a listing of current categories here, but if you're not sure where to list it then please ask.

The following pages don't need categories, as they will automatically be added to the page:

  • PC bios
  • NPC bios
  • Any with an {{Update Page}} or similar update signs.

The Pipe

Ah the all important pipe | . Something you will be using a lot. This can be located (on most keyboard) just above the 'enter' key and can be accessed by holding shift and pressing that key. If you cannot find it on your keyboard simply highlight the character on this page, copy and paste.

Formatting

Like on the forum, you can use bolding and italics for additional emphasis or page formatting.

Bolding
To make something bold you put three apostrophes before and three apostrophes after whatever it is you want to be bolded. For example, '''Bold Text is Me''' and it will appear as Bold Text is Me.

Italics
To make something italicized, you only put two apostrophes before and three apostrophes after whatever it is you want to make italic. For example, ''And Italic is I'' will give you And Italic is I.

Bold and Italics
To make something both bold and italicized, you would combine the two. So that would be five apostrophes before and five apostrophes after what you wanted to apply bold and italics to. For example '''''I am both''''' will give you I am both.

Making Links

There are different kinds of links, internal links type 1, internal links type 2, and external links.

Internal Links Type 1
Internal links are links that go to pages directly on the wiki (for example, going from a Crew Roster to a Crew Bio). To make an internal link, you put square brackets around the name of the page you are linking to. For example, to link to the example page page you would do [[How To...]] will give you How To....

Creating a link like this will make the words that you see on the screen be the same as the page title. To change, you need to insert a Pipe, like so: [[How To...|Go to the How To Page]] will appear like this Go to the How To Page.

Something that is very important to remember is that the wiki is case sensitive meaning that This Page will go to a different location than this page.

Internal Links Type 2
Sometimes you want to not only link to a page on the wiki, but a particular section of page. The section you are linking to must have a heading (see below), so that the link knows where to jump to. To show you what happens, Dauntless Manifest links directly to the Dauntless' crew manifest, which is a section of the Dauntless page.

To do this, you type in the following [[Enter Page Name#Heading Name|What will appear on screen]], where Enter Page Name is your page's name, and Heading Name is the name of the section you are linking to. You must put in a pipe, and the text you want to show up on the screen, otherwise you link will show up as Enter Page Name#Heading Name.

External Link
An external link is just that, a link to a page outside of the wiki. Similar to internal links you use the square brackets, but only one on each end. So to link to the forums, you would type in [http://www.federationspace-rpg.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi] and that will give you [1].

To change the words that are displayed with the link, you put in a space instead of a pipe. So you'd type [http://www.federationspace-rpg.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi Link Name] and it will give you Link Name.

A link to an email address is similar, except you need to include the word mailto and a colon before the email address. [mailto:email@email.com] will give you [2]; [mailto:email@email.com Link Name] will give you Link Name.

Headings and Table of Contents

To create a subject heading simply put the subject around what we would call OOC comments, == Section Name ==. That will create a heading and if there are 3 or more headings or subheadings this will automatically create a Table of Contents at the top of the page. The Basics on this page is an example of this type of heading.

For a sub-level heading simply add another = on each side. For example, === Sub Heading ===. You can see a sub-level heading by looking at Headings and Table of Contents on this page.

You can make sub-sub-headings by adding another = on each side, up to about 5 levels of subheadings.

Uploading and Inserting Images

Basics

To insert an image it first needs to be uploaded to the wiki. To do this there is an Upload File link in the menu on the left.

Once there you will see this screen:

Uploadfiles.JPG

Click 'Browse' select the file you want to upload and click 'Upload File'. Once it has been uploaded you can then insert it into a page by typing [[File:Image file name.jpg]]. This will create just an image, aligned to the left, with no caption and it will be the size that the actual image file is.

For example, [[File:March10trivia.jpg]] ...
...will display like this:
March10trivia.jpg

Resizing

If you want to resize the image, you type [[File:Image file name.jpg|###px]] where ### is the size you want the image to be.

For example [[File:March10trivia.jpg|100px]]...
...will display like this:
March10trivia.jpg

Most images that we will use will either be in a thumbnail, or in a gallery.

Sample caption.

Thumbnails

A thumbnail will be a scaled down version of the picture, that is aligned on the right side of the page, and has a caption below it. To do this, you type [[File:image file name.jpg|thumb|Caption Description]].

For example typing [[File:March10trivia.jpg|thumb|Sample caption.]] will give you the example you see over there on the right.

Galleries

We can also make galleries, which will show a bunch of images together, with captions underneath. To make them you type...

<gallery>
Image:Image name.jpb|Image description
Image:Image name.jpg|Image description
</gallery>

For example, we'll type...

<gallery>
Image:March10trivia.jpg|A ship!
Image:Com-cdr.jpg|A rank pip!
Image:Combadge.jpg|A commbadge!
</gallery>

...And it will show up like this:

Starship Pages

The main thing to worry about here is the Crew Manifest and Captains Logs. The specifications are done at a central location and should not need to be edited.

Your Starship page should consist of the following

  • Lineage
    • Vessel Dedication Quote
  • Specifications
  • Crew Manifest
  • Captain's Logs
  • Images

Most of these should already have been set-up on the page already but if they aren't the easiest way is to either copy another ship or to contact either myself, President Beckett or another CO.

Crew Manifest

The manifest should be located within a table which is easy to create. Here is the code:

{| class="wikitable" style="width:50%"
! colspan="4" | Department Name
|-
| style="width:20%;"| Rank Image || PC Name || Position|| style="width:25%;"| E-Mail link
|-
| Rank Image || PC Name || Position || Email Link
|-
! colspan="4" | Department Name
|-
| Rank Image || PC Name || Position || Email Link
|}

This will create a table like this

Department Name
Rank Image PC Name Position E-Mail link
Rank Image PC Name Position Email Link
Department Name
Rank Image PC Name Position Email Link

All PC Names in the manifests should be linked to there bio.

Crew Bios

For an in depth look at how to fill out the bio templates, please see the Character Bios help page.

Update Pages

In an attempt to reduce the evil Red Links, you might find yourself uploading a page that isn't part of your section (for example, you're doing Engineering pages but you have a red link that is something that should fall under Medical, and vice versa). You should still upload that page, because the person who should be uploading it might not realise it is needed.

What you want to do, is place it into the Updates category for that division. That way the person will know they need to work on that page, and it will place...

...one of these:
Update.JPG

into your page.

So just follow these steps:

  • Type the term in the search box, and see if the page does exist or not. A lot of the time the page could go by a similar name (Combadge or Communicator), your link is case sensitive (Combadge and ComBadge), etc. If it does exist, then update your link accordingly. You're done! If it doesn't exist, then go on to the next step.
  • Click on your red link. This will open a new window, that will say this page does not exist.
  • Click on "Edit" and then paste in your information.
  • Figure out which section your page fits into. For example, a Security page would go in the Security section. If you're not sure, then you will just choose the general setting and the Content Manager will decide where it goes.
  • Once you've decided which category, you will put in the Update Needed placard and add it to the Updates Needed section for that category. To do this, you will type in something like this {{Update Page}} anywhere on the page. Look at the list below and type in the text you need:
    • Academy - {{Update Academy}}
    • Engineering - {{Update Engineering}}
    • Historical Archives - {{Update History}}
    • Intelligence - {{Update Intelligence}}
    • JAG - {{Update JAG}}
    • Klingon OPFOR - {{Update Klingons}}
    • Marines - {{Update Marines}}
    • Medical - {{Update Medical}}
    • OPFOR - {{Update OPFOR}}
    • Romulan OPFOR - {{Update Romulans}}
    • Science - {{Update Science}}
    • Security - {{Update Security}}
    • Tactical - {{Update Tactical}}
    • Content Manager / Anything else - {{Update CM}}
  • You don't need to put a category on this one, because adding in the Update Needed placard will automatically put it in a category.