Postby V » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:48 am
1 - To make a link to another page on a wiki, enclose it within double brackets: [[Fan Service]]
2 - under *NO* circumstances use a single apostrophe to make quotation marks, always use full quotation marks:
NO: 'Feel free to take advantage of anything here'
YES: "Feel free to take advantage of anything here"
The reason for this is that Auto-wiki-code for putting text into italics or boldface uses apostrophe marks. Use two apostraphes at the beginning, and then two at the end, of a set of text to make italics. Use three for bold text.
Thus, ''Fan Service'' = Fan Service
'''Fan Service''' = Fan Service
So NEVER use apostrophes to quote things, it screws up wiki code. It ends up italicizing things you don't want italicized. You do need to use apostrophes sometimes when it's actually showing something.
For example: "Shinji is fond of Asuka's boobs or Misato's boobs?" "Shinji is fond of Asuka's boobs". For that, you'd have to put: ''Asuka's''
This gets a little wonky on me as sometimes it understands what I'm trying to say, and other times an entire paragraph gets put into italics as a result of italicizing a possessive word like that with an "'s". Don't worry about that, if it's a problem I will handle it myself. Usually it doesn't do that though (if you must know, the way around that is to go through manually adding in "<nowiki>Asuka's</nowiki>" around any possessive words. If you see that an entire paragraph has becom italicized as a result of you doing this, try adding the "<nowiki>" thing around stuff. It turns off the auto-wiki-code in text inside of its brackets.)
3 - How to make a bulleted list:
Use asterisks.
One asterisk at the beginning of a line will create a bullet point:
*Bullet Point 1
Write Two asterisk marks one after the other to create a subsection, visually stemming from the original bullet point:
*Bullet Point 1
**Bullet Point 1-A
**Bullet Point 1-B
You can keep doing this to keep making more and more subsections, but after 3 or so it gets really cluttered. I'd rather you didn't do that at first until you're used to using it.
4 - How to indent text:
Add a colon to the beginning of a line:
:This text has been indented once
You add multiple colons to make it indent more
:::::This text has five colons, and thus has been indented five times
HOWEVER, a key problem you have to remember is that different computer monitor displays will actually indent to different amounts. The result is that if you try to center something simply by indenting it, it might look centered on YOUR computer but unknowingly it won't be centered on every computer people are reading it on. For now, just indent once, or maybe indent twice if you really have to. If you need something centered, there's a special set of wraparound code I will put around the next; if you absolutely need something centered, ask me to do it, but that said, you really won't end up centering a lot of stuff.
5 - To make subheadings on a page, add sets of equals signs:
==Heading 1==
==Heading 2==
The number of "=" signs you use changes the size of the subsection's header.
You should start by using two on each side as seen above.
Please never use a single one "=". We should only use those if we really have to.
A subheading for a double equals sign is three equals signs:
==Heading 1==
===Subheading 1-A===
==Heading 2==
Headers created by two equals signs will have a line extending across the screen (this makes it easy to tell where one section ends and another begins).
Headers created using 3 ='s on each side do NOT have a line extending across the screen.
You can actually make a large number of ='s signs, for example:
==Heading 1==
===Subheading 1-A===
====Subheading 1-AA====
=====Subheading 1-AAA=====
But please, for now try to avoid doing this. The two equal signs =='s and the ==='s subheaders are all you really need.
headers with a single = sign are possible, but it makes the text even HUGER and is a big garrish. Thus two equals signs "==" are the default. We'll only use the HUGE single "=" ones if a page needs a LOT of subheaders (to avoid using something with like 6 equals signs "======" which is so small its not really much bigger than normal text.
6 - The biggest and most important rule I have left for last today: ALWAYS start writing at the beginning of a new line. Do NOT try to indent by hitting spacebar 5 times like you would in a word processor. I cannot stress this enough.
New paragraphs are made by hitting "Enter" and IMMEDIATELY starting to write something. Do *NOT* hit spacebar to try to indent. You indent by using colon signs, never spacebar.
Leaving a space at the beginning of a line screws up the entire wiki code, for the ENTIRE FRELLING PARAGRAPH.
It makes the entire thing just go on a SINGLE line. Everything from the entire paragraph. Imagine that you've written a particularly long paragraph with 500 words in it. And you indented it by hitting "spacebar". Now, a SINGLE line of 500 words will just extend to the right hand side of the screen, many times over, screwing up everything. Don't do it.
That's it for now.
This is the stuff of which PMs are made.