Help:Editing
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Formatting
The first non-obvious thing is that it takes two newlines in the edit window to produce a newline in the wiki. This is to make it easier to format things without it effecting the page for readibility sake.
There are surprisingly few pieces of markup you need to know to write Articles on a wiki. Most of them are on the toolbar on the edit screen.
To start off with a couple basic formatting ones:
(two apostraphes) ''Italic Text'' (three apostraphes) '''Bold Text'''
They can even be combined:
(five apostraphes) '''''Bold and Italic Text!'''''
You can use == to desginate the a section. It works like this == Name of Section == having four or more in one article will automatically generate a table of contents.
You can also use a leading space to create a box bordered with a dashed line with the text after it.
It looks something like this
But beware that these boxes won't wrap text. Any new lines in the box has to be stated explicitly in the wiki.
Linking
Internal Linking
Internally, on pages in the wiki you use the double-square bracket notation. The markup looks like this:
[[Name of Article You're Linking to]]
For example if you wanted to link to the Classes/Paladin article you would use"
[[Classes/Paladin|Paladin]]
Naming the Link
To name a link, after the the name of the article you place a pipe ( | ) and then the name of the page:
ie. [[Classes/Paladin|Paladin]]
External Linking
To link to an external site simply put the full URL (including the http://) in single brackets.
ie. [http://www.camelotherald.com/index.shtml]
To name the link place a space and what you want the link named as after the URL
ie. [http://www.camelotherald.com/index.shtml Camelot Herald]
You can also use this for email addresses:
ie. [mailto:ryan@severeboredom.com Noodle's Email]
