Help:Editing

• 1 Create an account
• 2 Introduction
• 3 Minor edits
• 4 Major edits
• 5 Wiki markup
  • 5.1 Headings
  • 5.2 Italic or Bold Style
  • 5.3 Links and URLs
  • 5.4 Lists
  • 5.5 Images

• A link to another Wiki article.
• Thus the link above is to the URL http://exorace.com/wiki/en/NPC%27s, which is the article with the name "NPC's".

The Alien Barbarians are [[NPC's]].

• Same target, different name.
• The target ("piped") text must be placed first, then the text to be displayed, second

The Alien Barbarians are [[NPC's|Non-Player Characters]]

• You can create it by clicking on the link.
• To create a new page:
  1. Create a link to it on some other (related) page.
  2. Save that page.
  3. Click on the link you just made. The new page will open for editing.
• Please do not create a new article without linking to it from at least one other article.

[[Everyone loves admin]] is a page
that does not exist yet.

User:admin 13:40, Dec 12, 2008 (GMT)

User:admin

13:40, Dec 12, 2008 (GMT)

• The first two both provide a link to your user page.

The character '''tilde''' (~) is used 
when adding a comment to a Talk page. 
You should sign your comment by 
appending four tildes (~~~~)
to the comment so as to add your 
user name plus date/time:
: ~~~~
Adding three tildes (~~~) will add 
just your user name:
: ~~~
and adding five tildes (~~~~~) gives 
the date/time alone:
: ~~~~~

• Redirect one article title to another by placing a directive like the one shown to the right on the first line of the article.
• It is possible to redirect to a section. For example, a redirect to Portal:Beta Server#Beta Server will redirect to the Portal:Beta Server page, to the Server Overview section, if it exists.

#REDIRECT [[Portal:Beta Server]]

#REDIRECT [[Portal:Beta Server#Beta Server]] will redirect to the 
[[Portal:Beta Server]] page, to the Server Overview section, 
if it exists. 

• To put an article in a category, place a link like the one to the right anywhere in the article. It does not matter where you put these links while editing as they will always show up in the same place when you save the page, but placement at the end of the edit box is recommended.

[[Category:Beta Server]]

• To link to a category page without putting the article into the category, use an initial colon (:) in the link.

[[:Category:Beta Server]]

1. Bare URL: http://www.exorace.com/ (bad style)
2. Unnamed link: [1] (only used within article body for footnotes)
3. Named link: Exorace

• Square brackets indicate an external link. Note the use of a space (not a pipe) to separate the URL from the link text in the "named" version.
• In the URL, all symbols must be among:
  A-Z a-z 0-9 . _ \ / ~ % - + & # ? ! = ( ) @

Three ways to link to
external (non-wiki) sources:
# Bare URL: 
http://www.exorace.com/ 
(bad style)
# Unnamed link: 
[http://www.exorace.com/] 
(only used within article body 
for footnotes)
# Named link: 
[http://www.exorace.com Exorace]

• Unordered lists are easy to do:
  • Start every line with a star.
    • More stars indicate a deeper level.

  Previous item continues.

  • A new line
• in a list

• Of course you can start again.

* ''Unordered lists'' are easy to do:
** Start every line with a star.
*** More stars indicate a deeper level.
*: Previous item continues.
** A new line
* in a list
marks the end of the list.
* Of course you can start again.

1. Numbered lists are:
   1. Very organized
   2. Easy to follow

   Previous item continues

1. New numbering starts with 1.

# ''Numbered lists'' are:
## Very organized
## Easy to follow
#: Previous item continues
A new line marks the end of the list.
# New numbering starts with 1.

A picture: 
[[Image:logo.jpg]]

With alternative text:
[[Image:logo.jpg|Exorace wiki's logo.]]

• Alternative text, used when the image is unavailable or when the image is loaded in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud, is strongly encouraged.

Floating to the right side of the page 
using the ''frame'' attribute and a caption:
[[Image:logo.jpg|frame|Exorace wiki's logo]]

• The frame tag automatically floats the image right.
• The caption is also used as alternate text.

Floating to the right side of the page 
using the ''thumb'' attribute and a caption:
[[Image:logo.jpg|thumb|Exorace wiki's logo]]

• The thumb tag automatically floats the image right.
• The caption is also used as alternate text.
• An enlarge icon is placed in the lower right corner.

Floating to the right side of the page
''without'' a caption:
[[Image:logo.jpg|right|Exorace wiki's logo]]

A picture resized to 30 pixels...
[[Image:logo.jpg|30 px]]

Linking directly to the description page
of an image:
[[:Image:logo.jpg]]

• Clicking on an image displayed on a page

Linking directly to an image
without displaying it:
[[:Image:logo.jpg|Exorace wiki's logo]]