Help:Editing

From Guild Wars Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Help center • Editing help • Archiving Help • Frequently asked questions • Helper program
Ask an account related question • Ask a game related question • Ask a wiki related question

[edit] Creating a page

A red link such as Help:Non-existent page indicates that the page does not exist. Clicking on it will bring you to a page where the first version of it can be written and saved.

Another way to create a new page is to navigate to the URL directly. For example, typing out http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Help:Non-existent page onto the browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will achieve the same effect as clicking on the red link above.

[edit] Editing syntax

Description You type You get
Applies anywhere
Italicise text

''italic''

italic

Bold text

'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

Internal link

(within Guild Wars Wiki)

[[name of page]]
[[name of page|display text]]

name of page
display text

Redirect to another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page]]

↳ Target page

External link

(to other websites)

[http://www.example.org]
[http://www.example.org display text]
http://www.example.org

[1]
display text
http://www.example.org

Sign your posts
on talk pages

~~~~

Your username 21:55,
13 May 2008 (UTC)

Applies only at the beginning of the line
Headings

A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.

== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======

[edit] Level 1

[edit] Level 2

[edit] Level 3

[edit] Level 4
[edit] Level 5
Indented lines and paragraphs

: First paragraph.
:: Second paragraph.
::: Third paragraph.

First paragraph.
Second paragraph.
Third paragraph.
Bullet list

* one
* two
** two point one
* three

  • one
  • two
    • two point one
  • three
Numbered list

# one
# two
## two point one
# three

  1. one
  2. two
    1. two point one
  3. three
 
Image

[[Image:Guild Wars logo.png|200px]]

 
Thumbnail image

[[Image:Guild Wars logo.png|thumb|Caption text]]

Caption text
Caption text

[edit] Moving a page

You can rename a page by moving it to another more appropriate name. The "Move" link at the top of the page allows you to move it. You must be logged in to be able to see the "Move" link. You cannot move a page to a name that already exists.

After successfully moving a page, the old name will contain a redirect to the new name, allowing all the old links to continue to work properly. It is not necessary to purposely change all existing links to the old name to the new name, unless the old name was misleading.

[edit] Before saving changes

Once you've edited in your changes, before actually saving them, make use of the "Show preview" button to preview how your changes would look like after you saved. Avoid saving too often or saving just to see what it looks like. Each page save will generate an entry in recent changes. Repeated trivial and unnecessary saves tend to clutter up that list and inconvenience users who make use of that list to watch for vandals or misinformed edits.

[edit] See also

Retrieved from "http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Help:Editing"
Personal tools