Help:Tutorial
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Welcome to Bioniclepedia! If you're confused on what to do, read this tutorial and find out! If making an article about a major character, first look at the Manual of Style and format it off the model article.
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[edit] What is this place?
This is the Wiki about Bionicle: all the characters, places, things, all kinds of stuff. What's a wiki, you ask?
A Wiki is a free encyclopedia, that is, an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Look at the top of this page and you'll see a little tab that says "edit this page". When you see that, that means that the page you are on is editable. Not all pages are editable, however.
Some pages on the Wiki are protected. This means that that page cannot be edited by a Normal Level User (see Bioniclepedia:Ranks for more info). This means that too many people have tried to vandalize it, and an administrator protected it.
[edit] Links
Getting around a wiki is made possible by links.Links are blue text that you click on and they take you to another page on the wiki.
To make a link,type this: [[link name here]] However,you may want to call a link something it's title isn't.(ex:you want the Main Page to be called Bioniclepedia Main page)
All you do is:
[[link name here|what you want it called]]
All links are blue.If you have clicked on them before,they will be purple.If there is a link to a article that does not exist,it will be red.If you see a red link,you can click on the link to create the article.
If you are going to make a link take you to a certain paragraph on another page,type: [[link name#paragraph name]]
[edit] External Links
You can make a link to another website. Type:[Web address]
To call it something else,type: [{Web address} {what you want it called}] Note! Don't forget the space in between the address and title.
[edit] Text
Text? Of course you know to type on your keyboard to make words.
[edit] Italics
Italic text can be made by typing ''your text here''
[edit] Bold
Bold text can be made by typing '''your text here'''
[edit] Both
You can also made text bold and italics.To make it,type '''''your text here'''''
[edit] Colors
Change the colour like this:<FONT COLOR="# colour code here">and when you want the colour back to normal,type </FONT COLOR>
[edit] Size
Change the text
size by
typing <FONT SIZE=<Size number>pts>
[edit] = An easier way...
Don't want to do that? Need small text fast? Just type <sup> and the text will be small!. Type </sup> to bring it back to normal!
[edit] Underlining
To Underline text type <u>text here and to end it type </u>.
[edit] Striking
To strike text type <s> text here and to end it type</s>
[edit] Pictures
All articles are better if they have a picture. To make one, type: [[Pic name.gif]] This will give you a picture.
To control the size of the picture,type [[Pic name.gif|#px]]
To put the picture on the left or right side of the screen,type this: [[Pic name.gif|left or right]]
And,finally,to give the picture a border and put some text in it,type: [[Pic name.gif|thumb|what you want in the border]]
[edit] Titles
Titles separate a page into sections. To make one,type:==title name==
[edit] A big title is what you get
[edit] To make a subtitle,put three = instead of two
[edit] A second subtitle is made by four ='s
[edit] Third subtitles are five ='s
[edit] Fourth,six ='s
[edit] Colons
Colons (:)
- can
- change
- the
- margin
- of
- text.
- Users often use these when replying to talk pages.
- They can go pretty far.
- Users often use these when replying to talk pages.
- text.
- of
- margin
- the
- change
[edit] Categories
Categories are what puts articles into the right group.To know all the categories available,click here To put a category on an article type: [[Category:whatever the category is]]
[edit] Asterisks
To make a list or jot notes you need the asterisks in front of them. Type * to make a jot:
- See?
- It's easy!
- You can also make mini jots by typing two asterisks!
- And then get back to your normal list
[edit] Numbers
Like jots, numbers can come in handy when making a numbered lists. To make one, type #
- Num 1
- Num 2
- Num 3
- You can also make mini numbers by typing two!
- And then get back to your normal list.
[edit] Other minor stuff
You can do other things on a wiki too to make the article look better. For example, if you want a blank title, you can just type ----
This will give you a line:
Also,if you are getting frustrated because you hit ENTER and the pic is still appearing beside the text,you can type <br> and this will automacticly
break
the
line you are working on.
[edit] Signature
To type your signature and date, you type four tildes: ~~~~. To only put your signature, use three tildes, and use five for just the date.