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Below is a selected set of tips that will get you started editing any wiki that's powered by the MediaWiki software. Basic tips are followed by {{SectionLink||Advanced tricks}} that we've used on the wiki. For additional reading, see {{SectionLink||Further help}} which directs to pages on Wikimedia Foundation's sites (the developer of MediaWiki). Their general [[metawikimedia:Help:Contents|Help pages]] are available in [[wp:it:Aiuto:Aiuto|Italian]], [[wp:ru:Википедия:Справка|Russian]] and many other languages. That is where you'll find the most detailed and up-to-date info on editing a MediaWiki wiki. | |||
==Text formatting== | ==Text formatting== | ||
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Templates are not a special kind of wiki page; they're simply a term that we use to refer to pages that are meant to be transcluded. Templates usually provide a standardized format for something like a [[:Template:Chapters|table]], or else they supply a standard [[:Template:Cleanup|header]] or [[:Template:OBD_File_Footer|footer]]. You should familiarize yourself with the templates if you plan to do a decent amount of editing; they are not only time-savers, they also help editors make their edits fit in with OniGalore standards, and make it easier to change large amounts of wiki text at once. | Templates are not a special kind of wiki page; they're simply a term that we use to refer to pages that are meant to be transcluded. Templates usually provide a standardized format for something like a [[:Template:Chapters|table]], or else they supply a standard [[:Template:Cleanup|header]] or [[:Template:OBD_File_Footer|footer]]. You should familiarize yourself with the templates if you plan to do a decent amount of editing; they are not only time-savers, they also help editors make their edits fit in with OniGalore standards, and make it easier to change large amounts of wiki text at once. | ||
==Advanced tricks== | |||
Some of these "tricks" are very simple in practice, but hard to remember. This is basically a list of bookmarks to helpful examples. | |||
*Alphabetic footnotes: [[Quotes/Manual]] | |||
*Indenting wrapped text: [[Walkthrough]] | |||
*Justified text: [[Oni2:Aftermath]] | |||
*Math extension usage: [[OBD:SNDD]], [[XML:OBAN]] | |||
*Multicolumn text: [[User:Iritscen]] | |||
*Retitling a page: [[Template:Retitle]] | |||
*Separating footnotes and citations on an article: [[Oni]] | |||
*Tables: | |||
**Advanced styling: [[Template:OBD File Header]] | |||
**Aesthetic designs: [[Template:PoliciesSidebox]], [[Anniversary Edition]] | |||
**Centering on a page: Simply drop <code>style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"</code> onto the first line after the <code>{|</code> | |||
**Hideable columns: [[OBD:Versions]] | |||
**Multipart tables: [[Rights]] | |||
**Multirow sortable groups: {{SectionLink|Videos|Full playthroughs}} | |||
**Sortable columns: [[Oni 2 (Angel Studios)/Levels]] | |||
==Further help== | ==Further help== | ||
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:[[mw:Help:Starting a new page|Starting a new page]] | [[metawikimedia:Help:Moving a page|Renaming (moving) a page]] | [[mw:Manual:Administrators#Protection|Protecting pages]] | [[mw:Help:History#Deleting a page|Deleting a page]] | :[[mw:Help:Starting a new page|Starting a new page]] | [[metawikimedia:Help:Moving a page|Renaming (moving) a page]] | [[mw:Manual:Administrators#Protection|Protecting pages]] | [[mw:Help:History#Deleting a page|Deleting a page]] | ||
;[[metawikimedia:Help:Special page|Special pages]] | ;[[metawikimedia:Help:Special page|Special pages]] | ||
:[[metawikimedia:Help:Talk page|Talk | :[[metawikimedia:Help:Talk page|Talk pages]] | ||
[[Category:Policies and documentation]] | [[Category:Policies and documentation]] | ||