Help:Editing2

The content below is by SCA editors, and mostly covers editing via the code or wiki markup editing box. The more recent Wikia shared help page is Help:Editing

General Tips
On any page
 * BLUE links lead to pages which already have some content
 * RED links lead to pages which don't yet have any content
 * To create a page you need to create a link to it You can do this within an edit to an existing page: page name in double square brackets, for example  Main Page gives Main Page (the link will appear as a RED link the first time it appears) But a better idea is to do a search first, via the left hand column menu, to check whether anyone has already created the page you're thinking of. If not, there'll be a link you can use - red link on purple bar - on the Search results page.

General tip for learning about editing (Ignore this for now if it seems unhelpful and go straight to the next section). When you feel comfortable with trying this, you can see how appearance effects are achieved by looking at the edits of other pages (for example from other Wikia or Wikipedia ), though more ornate pages tend to have more code, so its often best to start looking at simpler examples.

Help Editing

 * 1) Click on Edit this page on top of web page or edit on the right (if available) for a section
 * 2) Type in text
 * 3) Click on Show Preview. Modify if required.
 * 4) Add summary if required. Click on Save page.

Separating paragraphs
To separate paragraphs you need to

leave a blank line between them

and for a bigger space leave two lines.

Line break
If you put a break command   at the end of a line you can get a  single spacing and format your poetry as you wish instead of being forced into the double spacing

Links
To make a hyperlink to a page within this wiki put the page's name in double square brackets, e.g.  Main Page.

You can do this even if the page doesn't exist yet, for instance if you think it'd be good for someone else to create a page for a key term later and you want your page to link if they do. It'll just show up as a red link for now.

The link text displayed can be different from the name of the page if you use the "pipe" character (shift-backslash next to Z on UK keyboard):  the home page is the home page.

To make a link to a page on the wider internet use single square brackets, the full address of the site, a space and the text you want to be the link. So  a search engine is a search engine.

Bullet list
(one per line)

adding  *  at the beginning of a line will form a bullet list.
 * 1st bullet
 * 2nd bullet
 * etc ...

Number list
adding  #  at the beginning of a line will form a number list.
 * 1) 1st
 * 2) 2nd
 * 3) etc ...

Header sections
==New section==

Use two equals signs for a large header, three for a smaller one like "Header sections" above. (Or more, but those two are usually enough.) Pages with more than three headers automatically get a table of contents box.

Indent
adding  : </B> at the beginning of a line will indent. Multiple colons give multiple levels of indentation.

no indent
 * one indent
 * two
 * three

Dividing line
A set of four dashes gives a horizontal line across the page.

Outline box
If you start one or more lines with a space it results in this blue box surrounding your work and text is formatted just as you type it.

Font Size(using HTML)
Text = Text Text = Text Text = Text Text = Text Text = Text

Font Color (using HTML)
<font color="Red"> Text  = <font color="Red"> Text <font color="Green"> Text = <font color="Green"> Text <font color=#0000FF> Text = <font color=#0000FF> Text

even <font face=Comic Sans MS size=5> <font color=#FF0000>R</B> <font color=#FF8800>A</B> <font color=#FFFF00>I</B> <font color=#88FF00>N</B> <font color=#00FF00>B</B> <font color=#00FF88>O</B> <font color=#00FFFF>W</B> <font color=#0088FF>C</B> <font color=#0000FF>O</B> <font color=#8800FF>L</B> <font color=#FF00FF>O</B> <font color=#FF0088>R</B> <font color=#FF0000>S</B> are possible

Font color, face, size
<font color=#FF8890 face=Verdana size=5> <font color=#00FF55 face=Verdana size=5>abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz <font color=#0088CC face=Comic Sans MS size=6> <font color=#0088CC face=Comic Sans MS size=6>abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Other HTML Commands
 Text </B> = Bold Text</B> <I> Text </I> = <I>Italic Text</I> <U> Text </U> = <U>Underlined Text</U> <S> Text </S> = <S>Strikeout Text</S> or any combination: <U><B> Text </B></U> = <U><B>Underline/Bold Text</B></U>

Images

 * First upload the file to the wiki - there's a link at the bottom of the left bar if you're a registered user. (This actually makes a page for the image, and clicking the image will take you there. Make sure the copyright holder and possibly the subjects of a photo are happy with this, because once on the wiki it'll be usable freely by anyone.)
 * Put the image in your page with  [[Image:filename]]  (whatever filename you used for the upload).
 * You can also give it formatting commands using the "pipe" character (bottom left of a UK keyboard) like so:  [[Image:filename|format1|format2|etc]] . They can be in almost any order. Basic ones:
 * left and right move the image to the left and right of the page respectively and flow text round it. You'll probably want one of these most of the time because it looks better. You can also use center.
 * It's recommended that images have a caption: text that describes what the picture is. This must be the last in the list of formatting instructions. It will appear in a tip box when you hold your mouse pointer over the image.
 * frame draws a box round the image and shows the caption at the bottom.