Help:Getting Started

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This page is here as a basic guide to editing on AWRPedia. All basic formatting issues are dealt with below, and with this information you should be able to easily make and edit any page you wish to here. Thanks for contributing!

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Creating a new page

Firstly, type the subject of the page you would like to create into the search box. From this page, click the text that allows you to create the page, and from there follow the advice below.

Editing Pages

To edit a page, go to the top of the page and click the little button that says "edit". Yes, it really is that easy! Doing this will bring up the editing page, where you can edit from, and you should do this how you see fit. Before saving your changes, click Show Preview, which will let you see your edits, and make sure they've worked, before saving. When you're confident that the changes are as they should be, click Save Page.

In a nutshell, the basic steps for editing are:

  1. Click "edit" and make the changes in the edit box.
  2. Change the edit summary to detail the edit you've made.
  3. Click "show preview" and make sure that everything is working as it should.
  4. Click "save page".


Basic Wiki Coding

Wikis have their own special coding system. This is a short list of some of the most-used Wiki markup:

Text Formatting

What you see What you type
Bold Text 
'''Bold Text'''
Italic Text 
''Italic Text''
Bold and Italic Text 
'''''Bold and Italic Text'''''
Underlining works, as does striking out. 
<u>Underlining</u> works, as does <s>striking out</s>.

A line break won't be registered with only one new line. This line appears to be in the same paragraph as the previous line.

Two new lines, however, begins a new paragraph. 

A line break won't be registered with only one new line.
This line appears to be in the same paragraph as the previous line.

Two new lines, however, begins a new paragraph.

You can break lines
without starting a new paragraph. 

You can break lines<br>
without starting a new paragraph.
This makes '''all''' of the [[wiki]] coding not display. 
<nowiki>This makes '''all''' of the [[wiki]] coding not display.</nowiki>
Big text or small text 
<big>Big text</big> or <small>small text</small>
Superscript or subscript 
<sup>Superscript</sup> or <sub>subscript</sub>
Hidden page comments:
not shown when viewing page 
<!-- This is a hidden comment -->

A typewriter font for monospace text or for computer code: int main()

  • For semantic reasons, using <code> where applicable is preferable to using <tt>. 
A typewriter font for <tt>monospace text</tt>
or for computer code: <code>int main()</code>

Signing Posts

When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it by adding four tildes to add your user name plus date/time:
JoJo 18:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Other, less recommended alternatives are:

  • Three tildes to add user name alone:
JoJo
  • Five tildes gives the date/time alone:
18:08, 30 January 2010 (UTC) 
When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it by adding four tildes to add your user name plus date/time:
: ~~~~
Other, less recommended alternatives are:
*Three tildes to add user name alone:
: ~~~
*Five tildes gives the date/time alone:
: ~~~~~

Link Formatting

A direct link and a piped link (one that shows different text than its actual link):
Procella is also called Katerina Goryanova.

Any type of link can be a piped link. 

[[Procella]] is also simply known as [[Procella|Katerina Goryanova]].
This is a link to a page that doesn't exist. If you want to create that page, you could do so by clicking the link.
[[This is a link to a page that doesn't exist]].
If you want to create that page, you could do so by clicking the link.
Linking to a different namespace that is not Category:
Talk:Main Page 
[[Talk:Main Page]]
Linking to the category namespace:
Category:Countries 
[[:Category:Countries]]
Linking to a subpage:
User:JoJo/sig 
[[User:JoJo/sig]]
External links: 
*[http://www.awrpedia.warscentral.com] (very bad)
*http://www.awrpedia.warscentral.com (bad)
*[http://www.awrpedia.warscentral.com AWRPedia] (good))
Linking to Wikipedia:

Wikipedia:Advance Wars
OR Advance Wars 

[[Wikipedia:Advance Wars]]<br>
'''OR'''
{{Wp|Advance Wars}}
To have a page automatically send a user to a different page, use this code.
(See Help:Redirects for more information) 
#REDIRECT [[page name]]

Blue Moon#Commanding Officers is a link to a section within another page.

#Links and URLs is a link to a section on the current page.

#example is a link to an anchor that was created using

an id attribute
  • The part after the number sign (#) must match a section heading on the page. Matches must be exact in terms of spelling, case and punctuation. Links to non-existent sections aren't broken; they are treated as links to the top of the page.
  • Identifiers may be created by attaching an id="..."> attribute to almost any HTML element. 
[[Andy#In Advance Wars]] is a link
to a section within another page.

[[#Links and URLs]] is a link
to a section on the current page.

[[#example]] is a link to an
anchor that was created using
<div id="example">an id attribute</div>

Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: Green Earth.

Automatically hide namespace: Custom Technology.

  • The server fills in the part after the pipe character (|) when you save the page. The next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. When previewing your edits, you will not see the expanded form until you press Save and Edit again. The same applies to links to sections within the same page (see previous entry). 
Automatically hide stuff in parentheses:
[[Green Earth (Macro Land)|Green Earth]].

Automatically hide namespace: 
[[:Category:Custom Technology|]].
  • To put an article in a Category, place a link like the one to the right anywhere in the article. As with interlanguage links, it does not matter where you put these links while editing as they will always show up in the same place when you save the page, but placement at the end of the edit box is recommended. 
[[Category:Character sets]]


Linking to other wikis:

  1. Interwiki link: Wiktionary:Hello
  2. Named interwiki link: Hello
  3. Interwiki link without prefix: Hello
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