Help:Editing
This page is here to explain how to edit Illogicopedia. Please don't try out any of your clever ideas on this actual page, which exists to tell every other clever person who follows how to be clever. Instead, why not try them out on this page about Finland?
Please don't indent paragraphs with either Tab (it won't do anything) or a space. This causes the wiki to not wrap text in the window. Instead, you should use a colon in front of the text you wish to be indented.
If you want to test your code before putting it on the page, click Preview instead of Save, or experiment in the Sandbox.
Everything you ever wanted to know about links
To create a link to an article in the database, place double square braces around the keyword like so:
''text here''
To link to something other than the literal title of the article, use a pipe ( Shift+Backslash = | ) in this format:
Link words
...which will display as Link words. Please at least link to something slightly related to the words that appear. (Or something completely unrelated that will be a hilarious non-sequitur.)
Another special use of links is to load images into the article, used in this manner:
The next use of links is to create categories and add your article to them :
Note that an article can be part of several categories, simply use that tag several times. Common formating suggests this go at the end of the document.
If you are editing a category page, adding that page to an existing category will make it a subcategory within that category. Categorically speaking.
- TIP: check out what categories already exist and use them - try and put your article in a relevant and highly populated (and hence highly connected) category, and more people are likely to stumble across it. Category:Everything is also a good place to look for relevant categories, just browse through the subcategories.
To link a Category without making your article part of that category, you would use this formatting:
Category:category name here
Furthermore, to add your article to a category but ordering it differently (e.g. to file your article on "Joe Bloggs" as "Bloggs, Joe" - which would be handy, for the People category in particular) then use this formatting:
To embed audio files, or movie files, you use this format:
Media:Name of file on server here
And to create an external link, simply do
[URL here]
(note single brackets for this one, not double)
And to make an external link with text, do
[http://www.example.com link text here]
(note space between URL and text)
Contents and sub contents
To create a completely different part of the same page, you simply surround the heading with equal signs:
=Title here=
- Note: Level 1 headlines such as that outlined above are discouraged.
To create a heading for your article, you do the same as above, only two more equals signs:
==Heading here==
To create a sub heading, you place 1 more set of equals signs than the prior level, i.e.:
===Level 2 title here===
====Level 3 title here====
A table of contents will automatically be generated if the article is long enough and there are headings in the document.
Formatted text
There are several ways to format your text. These include:
- Bold done with 3 single quotes around the text: '''Text here'''
- Italics done with 2 single quotes around the text: ''Text here''
- Math formulas, formatted according to LaTeX by the HTML tag <math> and </math> (please use sparingly)
- To ignore standard wiki formatting, use the html tags <nowiki> and </nowiki>
- For creating these nifty little bullet tags, place an asterisk in front of the text at the start of the line...
- ... and add more asteriskses for sub-levels.
- For numbered lists, use a # instead of a *. Use a colon : for simple indenting. Again, add more for sub-levels.
- For those nifty blue dashed boxes, start each line with a space (or enclose the area in a <pre></pre> tag).
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Other notes
To sign something, type 2 dashes, followed by 4 tildes:
--~~~~
To create a horizontal line, simply use 4 dashes:
----
To declare your article to be a stub:
{{stub}}
or:
{{catstub|Category name...}}
To warn the user that the following article is a piece of crap, simply type at the top of the page:
{{crap}}