Our website is built using a hosted wikia or "wiki" style platform. This means that almost every page is accessable to our users for changing. User ease of access was important to us when building this site. To edit these pages requires our members to use a special language (or syntax) in order for the wiki platform to recognize special commands. This syntax is called "wiki markup". The wiki markup is the syntax system you can use to format the pages on this website.
In the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column.
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Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines
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Start your sections as follows: New section Subsection Sub-subsection
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==New section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
A single newline generally has no effect on the layout. These can be used to separate sentences within a paragraph. Some editors find that this aids editing and improves the function diff (used internally to compare different versions of a page). But an empty line starts a new paragraph.
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A single [[newline]] generally has no effect on the layout. These can be used to separate sentences within a paragraph. Some editors find that this aids editing and improves the function ''diff'' (used internally to compare different versions of a page). But an empty line starts a new paragraph. |
You can break lines
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You can break lines<br> without starting a new paragraph. |
marks the end of a list item.
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* Lists are easy to do: ** Start every line with a star. *** More stars means deeper levels. **** A newline in a list marks the end of a list item. * An empty line starts a new list. |
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# Numbered lists are also good ## very organized ## easy to follow ### easier still |
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* You can even do mixed lists *# and nest them *#* like this |
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; Definition list : list of definitions ; item : the item's definition ; another item : the other item's definition |
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
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: A colon indents a line or paragraph. A manual newline starts a new paragraph. |
IF a line starts with a space THEN it will be formatted exactly as typed; in a fixed-width font; lines won't wrap; ENDIF
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IF a line starts with a space THEN it will be formatted exactly as typed; in a fixed-width font; lines won't wrap; ENDIF |
<center>Centered text.</center> | |
A horizontal dividing line: this is above it and this is below it.
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A horizontal dividing line: this is above it ---- and this is below it. |
Links and URLs
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Site Map is a map of all articles/pages within Eversor Guild website.
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[[Site Map]] is a map of all pages within the Eversor website. |
Site Map is a map of all pages within the Eversor website.
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[[Site Map|Map]] is a map of all pages within the Eversor website. |
Administrators are volunteers helping other members.
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[[Administrator|Administrators]] are useful in site navigation. |
Guild Requirements#Our Rules is a link to a section within another page. #Links and URLs is a link to a section on the current page. #example is a link to an anchor that was created using an id attribute
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[[Guild Requirements#Our Rules]] is a link to a section within another page. [[#Links and URLs]] is a link to a section on the current page. [[#example]] is a link to an anchor that was created using <div id="example">an id attribute</div> |
Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: Structure. Automatically hide namespace: Contents.
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Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: [[Guild Structure (ranks)|]]. Automatically hide namespace: [[Help:Contents|]]. |
Saturday Events is a page that doesn't exist yet.
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[[Saturday Events]] is a page that doesn't exist yet. |
Help:Editing is this page.
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[[Help:Editing]] is this page. |
When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it by adding three tildes to add your user name: or four to add user name plus date/time:
Five tildes gives the date/time alone:
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When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it by adding three tildes to add your user name: : ~~~ or four for user name plus date/time: : ~~~~ Five tildes gives the date/time alone: : ~~~~~ |
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#REDIRECT [[Collections]] |
A user's Contributions page can be linked as: Special:Contributions/UserName or Special:Contributions/192.0.0.0 |
A user's '''Contributions''' page can be linked as: [[Special:Contributions/UserName]] or [[Special:Contributions/192.0.0.0]] |
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[[Category:Tradeskill]] |
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[[:Category:Tradeskill]] |
Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources:
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Three ways to link to external (non-wiki) sources: # Bare URL: http://www.eversor.wikia.com/Eversor_Guild/ (bad style - no brackets) # Unnamed link: [http://www.eversor.wikia.com/Eversor_Guild/] (bad style - with brackets) # Named link: [http://www.eversor.wikia.com/Eversor_Guild Eversor Guild Website] (good style) |
Images
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A picture: File:Confused.pngor, with alternative text:Confusedor, floating to the right side of the page and with a caption: or, floating to the right side of the page without a caption:
| A picture: [[Image:Confused.png]] or, with alternative text: [[Image:Confused.png|Confused]] or, floating to the right side of the page and with a caption: [[Image:Confused.png|frame|Confused? Ask a Question]] or, floating to the right side of the page ''without'' a caption: [[Image:Confused.png|right|Confused? Ask a Question]] | |
Clicking on an uploaded image displays a description page, which you can also link directly to: Image:Confused.png | [[:Image:Confused.png]] | |
To include links to images shown as links instead of drawn on the page, use a "media" link. |
[[media:Confused.png|Image of Confused]] | |
To move the Table of Contents to the right side, embed it in a table
{|align=right cellpadding=10 | __TOC__ |} |
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