StarWarsHistory:How does one edit a page
Star Wars History: From Exar Kun to Luke Skywalker and beyond
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Wiki Editing Syntax
Wiki is a language that allows simple page editing. The wiki language, once learned, allows anyone to edit pages, without having to input the source in a complex formatting language. The basics of the language are as follows:
Text Formatting
Basic Examples of Formatting:
| What You Type | What It Looks Like |
''' bold text ''' | bold text |
<pre> Preformatted Text Like Code or Wiki/HTML stuff that you don't want expanded</pre> | Preformatted Text Like Code or Wiki/HTML stuff that you don't want expanded |
Horizontal Line ---- | Horizontal Line |
Links
Internal Links
Internal links are, as the name implies, internal to the starwarshistory site. In this case, everything that is within the encyclopedia is considered internal. Anything that is within the main site (the portal site) is considered external.To display an internal link, use the following syntax:
| What You Type | What It Looks Like | |
[[InternalSiteName|What to Display]] | What to Display |
Where InternalSiteName is the name of the page that you want to link to, and What to Display is what you want the link to say when displayed to users. If you link to a page that does not yet exist, the link will be displayed in red. As soon as a user clicks the link, they will be presented with a page creation screen.
Note: The above link is only for an example, it is not a real link. Anything you post to the page InternalSiteName will be removed.
Good Wiki Style: The general style used on this site when creating pages is to use a title that consists of one or more words, each word beginning with a capital letter, with no spaces seperating the words. For links that are in a specific category, such as the name of the character, precede the page name with Category:.
Examples:
| What the Page is | Good Wiki Name | Bad Wiki Name |
| The character profile of Luke Skywalker | Characters:LukeSkyWalker | luke |
| A page designed to be help for searching | SearchHelp | help |
External Links
External links are links that go to pages outside of the current wiki encyclopedia. An example of an external link would be to a page such as http://www.google.com. External links are also used for links to any content within the main site.To show an external link, use the following syntax:
| What You Type | What It Looks Like |
[http://www.externalsite.com Show Me] | Show Me |
Tables
To use tables, open the table with:{|
When you are finished with the table, close it with: |}Each row of the table is separated by a:
|-Each cell of a row is separated by either a vertical bar and a newline, or else two vertical bars.
Basic example:
| What You Type | What It Looks Like | ||||
{|
| Cell One
| Cell Two
|-
| Cell One, row 2
| Cell 2, row 2
|}
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References
References are cited in a modified APA format. Don't worry if you don't know what this means. It simply means that in order to present information so that you aren't portraying it as your own writing, when it's not, we include a small subsection in each article named "References." It should be separated from the main article with a horizontal bar, using the wiki syntax of four minus signs on a single line. Following that, in bold text should be the word 'References.' After that, there will be a listing of sources which you obtained information from. You can follow this guide as a reference. If any of the information listed is not known (i.e. if you can't get the date of publication from a website), just leave it off.
Book by a Single Author
<author's name>. ''<book name>.'' (Year of Publication). <publisher>.
Example:
Wallace, Daniel. The New Essential Guide to Characters. (2002). Ballantine Books.
Book by Two or More Authors
<author 1's name>, <author 2's name>, ... and <last author's name>. ''<book name>.'' (Year of Publication). <publisher>.
Example:
Veitch, Tom and Kevin J. Anderson. Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, Dark Lords of the Sith. (1996). Dark Horse Comics.
Website
[[<website address|<website name]]. (Year of Publication).
Example:
Star Wars Official Website. (2004).
Images
To insert an image into a wiki document, use the following syntax:| What You Type | What It Looks Like | |
[[Image:filename | alignment | thumb | width in pixels px | caption ]] | 
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Where alignment is either right or left. Please note that the image must be uploaded first. To upload an image, please see Uploading a File.
To get an image to align with the short info sheet at the beginning of documents, try using a table. (i.e. place the image in a table cell and then place the info sheet in a table cell, and make sure the table cells are in the same row).
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