howto:Help for New Editors

Introduction

This article explains the bare minimum basics of page editing. It is not intended as an exhaustive resource, nor will this article fully explain even a single aspect of wikicode. This article contains simple notes on the most commonly used elements of editing.

For a complete and fully detailed description of all aspects of editing, consider reading the Mother of All Editing pages at Wikipedia.com. A portion of that information is shown here, with adjustments for our content.

Text Formatting

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Links

REDIRECT [[More Accurate Pagename]]

Magic Words

A complete list can be found at Magic Words

Page Formatting

Wiki-Tables

{| width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0"
|+'''Our Example Table'''
! width="20%" | Col. 1 
! Column 2 !! width="20%" | Col. 3
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| item 
| column width defaulted to ~60% || item
|}

Template Subst:tution

This function is not available yet for Wikibase!

So, you wanna start a new page here? You have hit the edit button and you are looking at a blank edit window... now what?!

Stay calm, panic, help is here. For almost every kind of information in EverQuest II we have created templates to help you and to keep the format of our data here consistent. All Information templates, and many other's besides, can be found at Bludwyng's Templates.

At the top of Bludwyng's Templates you will find a table of all the Information Box templates. The last 2 columns are of particular interest to you. These list a template that is a skeleton of the call for the main template, and the shortcut you can use so you do not have to type in the entire template name when you need to use it. So, here is how you do it...

1. On your empty page (or at the top of a non-empty page if you want to fix an old or inconsistent page) put the following (replace shortcut_name with the shortcut to the example template you want to include):

{{subst:shortcut_name}}

1. Now hit Save page, then edit (do not use the browser's Back button!)
2. all you have to do now is fill in as much of the information in the template call (between the = and the |) and save it. Be sure that every line in the template call (except the last one) ends with the pipe character, i.e. |.

The template should format everything, provide a link for an image (if applicable) and link your info to all the appropriate categories. For complete (and sometimes more up-to-date) documentation of the functioning of a given template, go to the link named in the 2nd column of the Information Box Templates table.

Calling for Help!

There are a few templates that are designed to get the attention of an Admin. Notice that gameid is required, or else the system does not know which admins to notify.

• {{AdminNeeded|gameid|put reason here}} will put a link to a category that is watched by the Admins and one of them will check out the problem as soon as they see it.
• {{AfD|gameid|put reason here}} will put a link to a category requesting an Admin to remove the page you put the tag on. If the admin does NOT delete the page, they will remove the AfD tag.

History

Allakhazam credits this article at EQ2i for some of the info in this article. Licensed under the GFDL.

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