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===Wiki Mark-up and Formatting===
 
===Wiki Mark-up and Formatting===

Revision as of 11:28, 12 May 2019

Welcome to the TWC Wiki!

All TWC users are welcome to edit the wiki but if you'd like to get more involved you can also Join the Wiki Team.

To discuss the Wiki on the TWC Forum please log in to TWC and Discuss the TWC Wiki here!

To obtain a new Wiki account please log in to TWC and request one HERE.


Wiki User Accounts

You need an account on this Wiki in order to:

  • Vote in Wiki polls.
  • Change your preferences to select different skins or viewing gadgets.
  • Edit existing pages.
  • Create new pages.

NOTE: It is not possible to edit this Wiki without logging in.

Getting a Wiki Account

To make a Wiki account you must first have an account on the TWC Forums. If you have previously logged in to the TWC Wiki with your forum account details that will have created a Wiki account and the Username and Password you used will still be valid. The automated system of creating a NEW Wiki account by logging in with forum account details is not currently working. To obtain a new Wiki account currently please log in to TWC and request one HERE.

Once you have a Wiki account you can change your password for the Wiki in 'Preferences'. Changes to your Forum account passwords and preferences do not affect your Wiki account, or vice versa.

Note: You must obey TWC Terms of Service whilst editing the Wiki, breaches of the ToS on the Wiki may result in sanctions being applied to your TWC forum account as well as a ban from the Wiki. You should additionally obey the TWC Wiki Policy & Guidelines.

Preferences

Once you have logged in to the Wiki you will be able to change a wide range of options from your 'Preferences' tab. The most important are described below:

Email

In 'User Profile' you have the option to add or update your email address. Please do include an email address as this will allow you to reset your password if you forget it! You can also opt to receive emails when a file on your watchlist is changed. The wiki watchlist works in a similar way to forum thread subscriptions. You can opt to 'Watch' a page just by clicking the tab at the top of that page, you don't have to edit the page.

Appearance

Skin settings and custom.css

Under 'Appearance' you have the option to change the 'Skin' applied to your view of the Wiki. A variety of skins are installed which change the colour and styling of the pages and menu items. To tweak things further, for anyone familiar with Cascading Style Sheets you can also make a 'Custom.css' file. Click the red link next to the skin you want to adapt and it will take you to the page where you need to place your custom.css.

Gadgets

Under the 'Gadgets' tab you can turn on or off various gadgets for your account. For readers, the most useful will probably be the Navigation Popups option that allows you to preview pages by hovering over links.

Editing the Wiki

Editing an Existing Page or Section

At the top of each page you can edit you will see an 'Edit' tab, click this to open the whole page in the editing window. Most section headings will also have an Edit link next to them, click this to open just that section in the editing window.

Rarely, if a page is protected so that only higher user groups can make changes, then you will see 'View Source' instead. You can use this tab to view the wiki mark-up if you need to copy the formatting to another article. If you notice changes that need to be made to the protected page you can leave a note on its discussion page, click on the 'discussion' tab at the top of the page you are viewing to go there.

Starting a New Page

If you click a red link it will take you to a page with that name. You will see a message that gives you options on how to proceed including how to create the new page, you will also see a 'create' tab at the top of the page.

If you want to create a new page with a specific page name type the name of the page you want to create at the end of the Url bar in your browser. If you are currently reading this at:

https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=TWC_Wiki:Help

change the ending, e.g.

https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=My_New_Page_Name

browse to that page and again you will see the create page options.

Note: The wiki software reads an underscore in the same way as a space, so New_Page_Name will resolve to the same address as New Page Name, but page and user names are case-sensitive apart from the first letter, so New page name resolves to the same address as new page name, but both will create a different page from New Page name! If this is likely to result in red links to pages that actually exist, or accidental multiple pages referring to the same topic, redirect pages can be created.

Wiki Mark-up and Formatting

When you are using the editing window you will see a variety of buttons above, hovering over them will provide a description of what they do. Use of the > Advanced and > Help buttons will expand those sections and provide information on commonly used formatting.

The TWC Wiki uses MediaWiki software, this means the mark-up and formatting are the same as on Wikipedia and most other Wiki projects. MediaWiki provides a lot of useful pages explaining the basic functions. The ones normal editors are most likely to need are:

Ways to Help the TWC Wiki

Standard Page Types

Mod Pages

Pages made about modifications to the Total War games should where possible follow this style guide;

Naming Conventions

For Pages and categories - inc for categories see: We need to finish this page! TWC_Wiki:Category_List

Member's Pages

Pages about the members of TWC should where possible follow this style guide:


Templates

Templates can be used to:

  • Display standardised information across multiple pages.
  • Provide a common framework for information tables.
  • Allow specialised formatting to be easily applied.
  • Add all pages containing the template to a specific Category.

The main advantage of template use is that changes can be made on just one page instead of on every page containing that element.

The templates currently available on the wiki can be found in the Template Category

Templates for Display Boxes

Maintenance Templates

TWC Wiki Policies

yup we've got some

  • ToS
  • Policies

Technical Details

Casual editors are unlikely to need to know the information below, but read on if you would like to understand the nuts and bolts behind the wiki functions.

MediaWiki Pages

These can only be edited by administrators, but let's put the useful links here so people can request changes on discussion pages if necessary.

User Groups

Patrollers etc - links to the pages about them