UniWiki:Editing Guide

Template:Contribution menu Wikis are a great way to share information within a community, since everyone can make additions to the knowledge base. This is also it's greatest weakness. Wiki's often rely on a relatively large active community, instead of a small group of dedicated writers. This guide explains how you can add stuff to our wiki.

It is assumed that the user is logged in for this entire guide.

Creating a page

Before creating a new page, do a few wiki searches with relevant keywords. If there is an existing article that already ties closely to your subject, it may be better to add to the existing article instead of creating a new one. Likewise, if a subtopic in an article becomes really big, it may be worth splitting it off into it's own article.

Creating a page is very easy, as all pages exist in potentia. This means in order to create a page, all you need to do is go to that page and add content. Confused? Don't worry, we have pictures!

First, you'll need to go to the page you want to create. This example shows how this guide was made. You can navigate to the page you wish to make by manually adjusting your browser URL and click 'edit', or - as shown in this example - simply do a search on our wiki for the name of the page you wish to create, and then click 'Create this page'. You can use spaces if the page you wish to create contains multiple words.

After clicking 'create this page' you should see the page editing form. All you need to do now is type the content in the text box, and hit save. It is good practice to include a short summary of the change you made to the page.

Now you have successfully created the page!

Of course, just plain text doesn't make for very useful and readable wiki pages. The next part of this guide describes the wiki markup language.

Editing a page

To edit any page, go to that page and click the 'Edit' tab at the top of the page or the 'Edit' link to the right of each section (if you don't see the 'Edit' you need to login first).

For a full description of the various tags, see the Help:Editing page. We'll discuss the most important ones here.

Wiki syntax

Headings

The use of headings not only makes for readable text but also automatically generates a table of contents. Headings are very easy to add, simply surround the title of the paragraph with equal signs ( '=' ).

= Heading level 1 (top) =
== Heading level 2 ==
=== Heading level 3 ===
==== Heading level 4 ====

etc...

Heading 1 is the same as the page heading, so it is recommended to start with heading level 2 on your page.

Links

Linking is one of the most powerful aspects of a wiki, so it is important that it is understood well. First you must realise there is a difference between intra-wiki links (links to other articles on this wiki) and external links (links to external websites/pages).

The basic intra-wiki link has the following syntax:

[[Link topic]]

where Link topic is a page on the wiki. For example, if we wish to link to Main Page we use

[[Main Page]]

. These topics can include spaces, as the wiki will automatically reformat the text to the correct link. You can also link to pages that do not exist yet such as this Intentionally Red Link, when you feel that subject deserves it's own article. The link will then appear red instead of blue, and people will hopefully feel encouraged to make the article. As you can see, the text inside the double square brackets is both the destination (the page it links to) and the description (the text that shows up as link). In order to change the description you can use the pipe ('|') in the following syntax:

[[Link topic|link text]]

. For example:

[[Main Page|Example]]

becomes Example. In order to make external links, you can use single square brackets like so:

[http://www.google.com]

. If you want to change the description text of your external link, separate the url from the description with a space like so:

[http://www.google.com like so]

.

Redirect

A topic could be known by different titles, therefore a Redirect on these titles to the available topic can be very useful to find it.

#REDIRECT [[Target]]
#REDIRECT [[Target#Section]]

Regular markup

Italics

''Italics''

Bold

'''Bold'''

• Unsorted
  • Lists
  • Are cool

* Unsorted
** Lists
** Are cool 

Images

Advanced information can be found in the wiki.

In order to include images (or other files) in your article, simply link them like

[[File:filename.ext]]

. For example, the first image in this guide is linked as

[[File:wiki1.png]]

.

After saving the edit, click the file link and follow the form to upload your file.

Of course, you can always look at the source of an article (click the edit link) and look up markup codes that aren't described here.

To upload your image:

<--Look-left---

Tables

For full details of tables, see Mediawiki's article

Basic tables are simple to create, requiring just a few pieces of markup:

• {|

  starts a table

• |-

  starts a new row

• |

  starts a new cell (each cell must have its own line)

• |}

  ends the table

Example:

{|
|cell 1
|cell2
|cell3
|-
|2nd row
|another cell
|and another
|-
|last row
|2 cells
|and the third
|}

Produces:

cell 1	cell2	cell3
2nd row	another cell	and another
last row	2 cells	and the third

It can be desirable to add gridlines to your table, this can be done by starting the table with the following:

{| class="wikitable"

Proper categorization

It is important we categorize our articles properly. This allows our category pages to automatically list all articles in their category, which makes it easy for people to see the collection of articles in the same category.

Categories should be used as collection mechanic instead of custom made pages where we have to manually add links to new articles.

You can add a category to an article by adding

[[Category:CategoryName]]

anywhere in the article (categories are usually listed either at the start or end of an article). CategoryName should obviously be replaced with the name of the category. For an example, see the source of this article and note that it includes:

[[Category:Guides]]

If you wish to link to a category page, use the following syntax:

[[:Category:CategoryName]]

Note the first colon. Example Guides:

[[:Category:Guides|Guides]]

Skills Categorization

After remaking the whole skills part of the wiki, I've noticed there was several types of categorizations and linking used throughout all the skill pages. This makes the job of updating it (whenever CCP releases an update that changes skills) a LOT harder, since every single line of every single page has to be eyeballed carefully.

Therefore, the whole of the skills code has been changed into one template that I ask you humbly to use it if you decide to make updates to skills.

Listing Skills on Overview:

*[[Skills:Group#Skill_Name|Skill Name]]

-First letter of each word is capital.

-First part, before the "|", has a "_" between the words.

-Second part, after the "|", has a "space" between the words.

Example:

*[[Skills:Armor#Armor_Layering|Armor Layering]]

Creating/Modifying Skill links in skill description's prerequisites

{{Skill
|skill=Name
|desc=Description
|1=Major Attribute 
|2=Minor Attribute
|mult=Multiplierx
|price=32K 
'''|pre=[[Skills:Engineering#CPU_Management|CPU Management I]]'''
|notes=Notes
}}

-Skill coding is the same as used for the Overview (that's why they all have to be the same).

-Skill level needed should be included inside the brackets.

Example:

|pre=[[Skills:Engineering#CPU_Management|CPU Management I]] '''<- Correct way'''
|pre=[[Skills:Engineering#CPU_Management|CPU Management]] I '''<- Incorrect way'''

-Skill name is listed with "space" between words (if needed), not "_".

-Attributes are written with capital on first letter, being the Major the one that contributes the most, and Minor the one that contributes less.

Example

|1=Intelligence 
|2=Memory

-Training multiplier is written a number+x

Example

|mult=1x

-Price were changed to be coherent across all skill pages. Do not put "ISK" after the price as it will show "ISK ISK" on the wiki. Values have been changed to power of ten nomenclature, therefore K=thousand, M=million, B=billion. There's no need to put "~" before the price to indicate it's approximately, as all prices are a good approximation of the in-game prices. If there's a value range, put "-" between the two numbers, without "spaces", and add the K, M, or B after the last number. The correct fraction denominator is "." and not ",".

Example

|price=32K '''<- Correct''' 
|price=32.5M '''<- Correct''' 
|price=20-25.5B '''<- Correct'''

|price=32,000 '''<- Incorrect''' 
|price=32,5M '''<- Incorrect''' 
|price=~20-25.5B '''<- Incorrect'''
|price=20 - 25.5B '''<- Incorrect'''
|price=20B-25.5B '''<- Incorrect'''
|price=32K ISK '''<- Incorrect'''

Maintaining this pattern is very important because it allows the use of a Code Editing software to more easily and timely modify the skills on the wiki should CCP decide to make any more changes.

You will see that almost all (if not all) skills are properly edited to reflect that. In case of doubt, check a few skills above and below. In case of more doubt, check these examples. :)

Templates

Templates are a bit more advanced so this guide will not explain how to make them, but we do have some templates made that are ready to use.

Templates allow us to automatically format information a certain way. For example, the Clean Up template always looks like this:

This article should be cleaned up or improved.

In order to include a template, place the template name between two pairs of curly brackets:

{{Cleanup}}

Some templates allow variable input.

The example template for example!

You simply put a pipe character after the template name and then put the text. A new pipe for each variable:

{{Example|The example template for example!}}

We have several templates that we use at the moment, see the template category for the full collection. We'll discuss some of the more common maintenance templates here.

Cleanup

{{Cleanup}}

Indicates that this article needs to be cleaned up/improved. Mark articles with the Cleanup template if they contain a lot of spelling errors, unwieldy layout, etcetera.

Deprecated

{{Deprecated}}

Indicates that this article is no longer required and is no longer being maintained. Depreciated pages may be reused or edited into something useful.

Deletion

{{Deletion}}

Used for pages that were created by accident, empty categories, blank pages, or abusive articles that are better off removed entirely.

Merge

Indicates that the contents of an article is duplicated somewhere else. Duplication of information will almost certainly lead to inconsistencies when changes are applied to only a part of the duplicate information, and as such should be avoided at all cost. Instead, articles should link to one another to reference information. If you find articles that have significant duplicate information, mark them with the Merge template. The Merge template takes one argument, the name of the other article containing the duplicate information:

{{Merge|Second Wiki How To Guide}}

Discussion

If you feel a certain page requires discussion, each page comes with it's own discussion page. This is really just a regular wiki page, so adding comments to it works exactly the same way as adding to any other wiki artcile. If you want to sign the message with your name, then end your message with four tildes. ( ~~~~ )

Sandbox

Want to fool around in the wiki without worrying about screwing up existing articles? Go play in the sandbox!

Watch List

Often, you will want to know the state of a particular page. This can be especially true if:

• You are the original author
• You have proposed a change
• You are actively involved in the discussion of a page
• The page is a work in progress and you'd like to monitor it's development

Luckily the wiki provides us with a very helpful tool for monitoring the last time a particular page was edited and they do this with a "watch list".

Adding

You can add any page to your watch list by simply clicking on the "watch" button located on the same row as the "page" and "discussion" buttons but to the far right. When you click "watch" the button will change to "unwatch" and wiki will give you a notice letting you know that the page has been added to your watch list and a few details as to what it will do.

Viewing

To view if any changes have been made to those pages you have put in your watch list; you only need to click on the "my watchlist" link located in the top right hand corner of the wiki page. This page will list any and all changes applied to the pages you've defined in your watch list and highlight the ones that you have not recently visited (so that you can find them easier).

Removing

Should you, in the future, wish to remove a page from your watch list; simply navigate back to the page and click the "unwatch" button.