Help:Editing

From Black Country Role Playing Society

Here are few tips to help you edit the Wiki, if anyone wants to add to it please feel free.
I'm not the best at explaining things, but hopefully this will aid you when making your wiki projects, I know I felt lost and confused when I first started. I clicked on the editing help page and there was nothing there! Well fear not, now help is here!

If you are adding pure text, just type it, for the most part nothing you type will cause 'odd' stuff to happen.

The main thing to remember is that if you want to put a blank line between text, a single carriage return (the enter key) will not be enough, you need to leave an entire blank line, however this is generally unsuitable when formatting say a story, as it leaves blank space which doesn't quite look right, if you have reached the end of a line and wish to start on a new line (say for dialog) add <br/> to the end of the line.

Emphasis
If you want something to appear in italics or appear bold, simply highlight the words and then click either I or B button like on a normal word processor, and wiki will do the rest.

Links to other pages
If you want to create a link to another page, simple type the link in square brackets [[Link]]
If the page doesn't exist the link will be in red and when you click it, it will take you to the wiki editor, and you may begin to create the new page
If you wish to link to an existing page, the easiest way is to open another windows and navigate to the page you want to link to, and then copy the end bit of the URL (or address bar in layman speak) into double square brackets, if there are underscores _ in the title replace them with a space, so if you wanted to create a link to the main page you would type [[Main Page]] and you will get this Main Page
If the title of your page is cumbersome and/or long, you can make it appear as something else, to do this follow the procedure above, but after typing the title of the page you wish to link to, add a pipe | (shift and the key next to the Z on a UK keyboard) and the text that you wish to appear instead of the page name
For example
[[Main Page|Blurghhh!]] will create a link that called Blurghhh! , that leads to the main page.
Blurghhh!

Titles If you want something to appear as a heading (or subheading) put == signs around it, eg

== Heading == will look like this:

Heading

=== Subheading === will look like this:

Subheading

==== subsubheading ==== will look like this:

Subsubheading

Bullet Points
If you want to add bullet pointed list add a * before it.
For example *Bullet Point does this:

• Bullet Point

If you want to indent the bullet points more put more than one *
For example

• List (*List)
  • Sublist (**Sublist)
    • Subsublist (***Subsublist)

And Finally....
If you type something and the wiki is converting it into something you don't want, highlight it and click the button at the top of the page which looks like a W with a red circle and a line across it, and the wiki won't apply its normal formatting to it.