Guide to Editing the Wiki

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So you wanna contribute to the wiki ehh?

Well as easy as it sounds, wait what am I saying it is easy.

BUT There are still some guidelines you have to follow.

The Basics

OK so first off you have to sign up on the forums [here] After you create a account you should see that when you enter the wiki again you will have your name on the top right, if you don't wait a minute or 2 and refresh.

Alright now its time to starting figuring out how to understand basic wiki code. When you see the page you want to edit click the topish area that says edit and you will be taken to the editing panel.Here is where the magic happens

Templates

Templates are pretty much just a fill in the blanks dealio and there are a bunch of them here!

{| style="border:1px solid {{{bgcolor2|#bbbbbb}}};" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
 |
{|width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
|align=center width="150" style="background-color:{{{bgcolor1|lightgrey}}}"|[[File:{{{image|{{{name|Unknown}}}.png}}}|50px]]
<br>'''{{{name|Item name here}}}'''
|'''Found in: '''{{{foundin|Places item is found in}}}
<br>'''Used for:''' {{{usedfor|What the item is used for }}}
<br>'''Strategy:''' {{{strategy|How to obtain or use the item properly}}}
|}
{|width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| style="background-color:{{{bgcolor2|grey}}};" |'''Description'''
|}Place description here<br>
{|width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
| style="background-color:{{{bgcolor2|grey}}};" |'''Contains'''
|}
  Put Pictures here if any

If you understand this then you can skip this section!

Otherwise, all this is the basic template for adding a item. Now all this you really don't have to know its just there to tell the wiki what to do. Other templates like this one:

{{Template:Location
 |headerbgcolor=darkblue
 |headerfontcolor=white
 |imagebgcolor=lightblue
 |department = General
 |name=Mint and Mint Vault
 |image=Mint.png
 |big_image=Mint_big.png
 |exits=[[Hallway|Hallway]] north, [[Maintenance|maintenance]] south, [[Maintenance|maintenance]] east
 |purpose=Production and storage of [[Coins|coins]]
 |access=Mint for reception desks and loading area, Mint vault for vault
 |contents=Coin press, Some [[Coins|coins]]
 |clearance=[[Captain]], [[Head of Personnel]], [[Quartermaster]], [[Shaft Miner]], [[Chief Engineer]]
 |description=A semi-protected room, accessible from the south and east from [[Maintenance|maintenance]] and from the [[Hallways|main hallway]] in the north. Modeled to look like a bank, it is intended to stora money and other valuables. It's vault is a lot less protected than the [[Vault| main vault]] tho.
 |sec_level=Medium to high
 |style=Bank
 |balance=No major balance requirements
 |other=--
 }}

are more user friendly and can greatly help you in the long run, I will be using this as my example. Now when you apply this to a blank page it will look like this:

General Area

General

---

Obvious exits:	Hallway north, maintenance south, maintenance east
Purpose:	Production and storage of coins
Access level:	Mint for reception desks and loading area, Mint vault for vault
Noteworthy contents:	Coin press, Some coins
Clearance:	Captain, Head of Personnel, Quartermaster, Shaft Miner, Chief Engineer
Security Level:	Undefined.

Description

---

A semi-protected room, accessible from the south and east from maintenance and from the main hallway in the north. Modeled to look like a bank, it is intended to stora money and other valuables. It's vault is a lot less protected than the main vault tho.

When you change around the wording you will get different results, if you want you can try it out by click your name in the top then click edit, after that copy that line of code up there and change around the wording to see what happens.

Categories

Categories categorizes the pages and files of the wiki to help people find them easier, but the search bar works a little better.

Uploading a file to the Wiki

Uploading a file is as simple as one two three, just follow this and you will see!

Step: One

Go Here

Step: Two

Click upload file and find the file you wanna upload. Just make sure that it is either has a .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG, or .JPG format because those are the only ones you can upload. Also make sure to give it a appropriate name and a possible summary. If it is contradicting with another file make sure to look at both and decide which is better then update or not update the old file accordingly.

Step: Thee

Now you can add it to anything your heart so desires just make sure it goes with the page. To add it simply put this code in [[File:imangename.png]] and it should place the picture like this:

Now if you happen to use a .png format then you can add special conditions on it like this [[File:Paradise.PNG|500px|thumb|left|alt text]]

Picture with tags

The 200px means how big it will be and will not work if you add the thumb condition.

The left means that the picture will be placed on either the left side, right side or the center of the screen.

The thumb means that it will place it in a thumbnail and put the alt text on the bottom.

Yhe Alt text means that when you hover your mouse of it or if the the pic is broken it will show whatever you wrote for it.