FAQ: How do I create a wiki page?

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If at any point you wish to test your wiki skills, without causing damage to anything serious, you can go play in the Sandbox

The easiest way is to edit in a link to the page you want to create and then save the page and click the link you made. That'll go to a “This page doesn't exist yet” page for your link you just made. Click “Create this page” and create it. Make sure to add a ====== Header ====== to title your page - it'll determine how the link appears on pages that link to it. See the steps below:

1. Edit a link into an appropriate related page (for instance, you could place a link to a new setting item into the List of Unapproved Concepts)
2. Follow that (red) link
3. Click “Create This Page”
4. Type up the page.
   • For help with the basic text formatting, look here: Text Formatting.
   • For help with the creation, formatting and editing of tables, look here: Tables.
   • For help with the creation, formatting and editing of links, look here: Links.
   • For help with the creation, formatting and editing of images, look here: Images.
   • For help with structuring your page through different sizes of text, look here: Sectioning.
   • For help with the creation, formatting and editing of lists, look here: Lists.
   • If you're creating a technology or new setting element, see Submission Rules.
   • If you're creating a starship, see Creating a Starship or Power Armor
   • If you're creating a new species, see Factions.
   • If you're creating a character, see Creating a Character and/or read the section below.
5. Hit preview to see what your page will look like. If you notice errors, fix them before saving (don't save dozens of edits in a row!).
6. Save the wiki page when you're done.

• Have your character's name on hand.
• Make sure you have logged in to the Starwiki.
• Go to the SARP Member Directory.
• At the bottom of the page is a dark blue bar. On the left hand side it says 'Edit this page' and 'Old revisions'. Click on 'Edit this page'.

| [[user:iaincarter]] | [[:role-players|Player]] | [[character:Takasugi Ryoko]] |  |  | 

• Find an entry in the code panel like the one shown above. Select the line and copy it. Find your place in the table - it is ordered in alphabetical order of username! When you find where your entry should be, paste the copied entry there.
• Replace the copied username (in this example, iaincarter) with your desired username. Replace the character name (Takasugi Ryoko in the above example) with your character's name.
• Now click 'Preview' at the bottom left of the code panel. Your entry should now appear in the table, with both your name and your characters name shown in a fetching shade of orange. If either name has been justified oddly, make sure that there is a space either side of the [ ] brackets and the vertical dividers |.
• If you needed to add additional characters, you would just need to add additional entries in the following spaces between the vertical dividers |. Here i have added Ryoko's sisters Ryono and Ryodo to my entry:

| [[user:iaincarter]] | [[:role-players|Player]] | [[character:Takasugi Ryoko]] | [[character:Takasugi Ryono]] | [[character:Takasugi Ryodo]] | 

• Once you are happy with your entry, click 'Save' which is next to 'Preview' at the bottom left of the code panel.

• On the SARP Members Directory, find your entry you just made. Open the red link in a new tab and go to that tab.
• You should now see the following in the first window:

This topic does not exist yet

You've followed a link to a topic that doesn't exist yet. If permissions allow, you may create it by using the Create this page button.

• Click on 'Create this page' on the left side of the dark blue bar at the bottom of the page.
• You will now be presented with a big white code panel.
• In this panel, paste the code you generated using the Character Template Form.
• If you click on 'Preview', you will see what your biography will look like.
• Go through the cloned biography and make any finishing touches needed.
• Once you are satisfied, click 'Save'. Congratulations, you have now created your character's biography page!

• Creating and altering links is incredibly easy, once you know how…
• Find the page you wish to link to. Look at its URL, which will look something like this:

http://stararmy.com/wiki/doku.php?id=character:takasugi_ryoko

• You see where it says id= in the URL? Well, everything after id= is what you need to link to the page.
• Find where in the code for your page you wish the link to be.
• Enter the information from the target page URL. From my example, that would be 'character:takasugi_ryoko'. Now, add a pair of square brackets either side, so that it looks like this:

[[character:takasugi_ryoko]]

• Click on 'Preview'. You will now find the link you have just created - if you have entered the correct information, it will show up as pink. If something is wrong, it will show as orange. Sometimes, you will link to a page for which the URL looks like:

http://stararmy.com/wiki/doku.php?id=star_army_of_yamatai

• Note that unlike the previous URL, there is no ':'. If you have an orange link and you have entered the correct page name, the odds are that you need to insert the colon. So, for example, to correctly link to the Star Army of Yamatai, you would enter:

[[:star_army_of_yamatai]]

• Finally, you may not wish for the link to show its default self. You can make your link to say anything you like, without altering the target page by adding a vertical divider,'|' and then entering the text you want the link to show. For example, let us say that i wanted to link to the Star Army of Yamatai page, but i wanted the link to say 'SAoY', then i would enter the following:

[[:star_army_of_yamatai|SAoY]]

• Once you are happy with your links and any changes you have made, remember to click on 'Save'!

• For the rules governing the use of image uploads, look here.
• If you are like most people, you will want an ultra-cool portrait to showcase your character to the visitors to your page. You can use the 'Add images and other files' tool in the control panel to the top left of the code panel to upload your image. In the popup window that appears, select the 'character' folder in the left panel and then upload your image. Once the image is uploaded, clicking on it in the right panel will automatically add the link to your wiki code and you can then proceed to customise it further.
• Alternatively, you can use a piece of the anonymous artwork, found here. To use the anonymous character art, click on the 'Add images and other files' tool in the control panel to the top left of the code panel. In the new window that will appear, select the 'character' folder in the left panel, then the 'anonymous' sub-folder. Simply click on whichever piece of anonymous art you wish to use and your wiki page will be linked to the image.

• If the code panel is cramping your style, or you get fed up of scrolling up and down, you can always right click, select 'Select All', right click again and select 'Copy' and then in any text-editing program of your choice, right click and select 'Paste'. Once you are done writing your wiki code in your text editor, just reverse the process to copy the code to your wiki page code panel.

• If you see a mistake in any entry (such as a typo), correct it.
• If a page needs to be added, add it.
• Eliminate red links by creating articles, even if they're small and basic.
• Only canon information (approved submissions and roleplayed events) should be added (excluding stuff linked from the list of unapproved concepts).
• Do not put any copyrighted stuff that you don't own into the wiki.
• Mark unapproved pages as unapproved.
• All entries should be titled (with the title in H1).
• Never start a page with a bulleted list. Use a complete sentence.
• Keep alphabetical lists in order!
• Be specific.
• Add links to other articles when possible. Almost every proper noun can be a link.
• Create articles inside the appropriate name space (folder) instead of the root folder.
• Please don't use second-person language in informational articles (it's alright in OOC instructions).

See also: Namespaces