Help:Editing

This page contains information on how to edit pages as well as basic wikicode. If you have additional questions, please leave a message on the talk page.

Editing a page

To edit a page, click the edit link at the top of the page. To edit only one section, click edit on the section header. A box with the text of the article, as well as all the code, will be shown. You can make your changes by typing, editing, and moving around the various text. Before saving your changes, click "Show preview" underneath the edit box. It will show how the article will look with your edits in place. You can also type in an edit summary to describe the changes you made. If you made a minor edit, such as correcting the spelling of a word, you can click the "This is a minor edit" check box before saving. The checkbox labeled "Watch this page" adds the page to your watchlist so you will be notified of any changes someone else makes. Once you are ready, click "Save page" so your edits can be shown to the world.

You cannot edit protected pages. Those pages are generally protected because they are important enough that only admins are able to edit them.

Starting a new page

Before starting a new page, make sure to check that the article has not already been made under a different title or as a section or another article. Once you have confirmed that the article you want to create has not already been created, enter the name of the article you want to create into the search box. Make sure the title is in start case, where every word is capitalized regardless of the part of speech, to conform to guidelines that have been set. Once you have searched for it, click the red link in the sentence "Create the page "<page name>" on this wiki!"

An empty box should appear. Here, you can type the code for a new page. In most cases, the {{Stub}} template should be placed on the first line of the article to indicate it could use significant future expansion by other editors.

The first part of the article is the lead paragraph. Typically, it describes the topic of the page in a few sentences. The title of the page should be put in bold in the lede. An example of a lead:

Vegetables are edible food items that a blockhead can harvest. Vegetables restore a medium amount of the hunger bar. Flax and sunflower seeds similarly grow on plants.

The remainder or an article will vary depending on the topic. Most items have the {{Item Infobox}} at the top of the page, for example. Generally, a new article should be similar structure to a already-existing article.

Don't forget to categorize the new page. If the topic should be illustrated, consider uploading an image for the article. The new article should also be linked to, where appropriate, from other articles. Please also read the Basic Structure of Articles prior to creating an article.

Basic wikicode

Formatting

Text formatting
Italic text	''italic''	italic
Bold text	'''bold'''	bold
Bold and italic	'''''bold & italic'''''	bold & italic
Strike text	<strike>strike text</strike>	strike text
Escape wiki markup	<nowiki>no ''markup''</nowiki>	no ''markup''

Section formatting
Heading (level 2)	==Heading text==	Heading text
Heading (level 3)	===Heading text===	Heading text
Heading (level 4)	====Heading text====	Heading text
Heading (level 5)	=====Heading text=====	Heading text
Heading (level 6)	======Heading text======	Heading text

Simple lists
Bulleted list	*Some [[fruit]] **[[Apple]] **[[Cherry]] **[[Mango]] *Types of [[Vegetable|vegetables]] **[[Carrot]] **[[Chilli]] **[[Corn]]	Some fruit Apple Cherry Mango Types of vegetables Carrot Chilli Corn
Numbered list	#Create an account. #Confirm your email. #Find a page to edit. #Edit it. #Preview your edit. #Edit it again. #Save edit.	Create an account. Confirm your email. Find a page to edit. Edit it. Preview your edit. Edit it again. Save edit.
Indented text	:One indent ::Two indents :::Three indents ::::Four indents	One indent Two indents Three indents Four indents

Additional code
Comment	<!--This is a comment--> This is not a comment.	This is not a comment.

Links

Internal links
Internal link	[[Main Page]] [[Help:Contents]]	Main Page Help:Contents
Piped link	[[Main Page|different text]]	different text
Pipe trick	[[Help:Contents|]] [[Fish (creature)|]]	Contents Fish
Word-ending links	[[Shark]]s [[Sleep]]ing	Sharks Sleeping
Redirects	#REDIRECT [[Main Page]]	#REDIRECT Main Page
	Note: A page with only this text will redirect to you directly to the linked page.
Link to a section	[[#See also]]	#See also
Link to a section with different text	[[#See also|different text]]	different text
Link to a section on another page	[[Getting Started#Blockhead Creation]]	Getting Started#Blockhead Creation
Link to a category	[[:Category:Guide]] [[:Category:Food|Food]]	Category:Guide Food
Link to a image	[[:File:Blockhead-icon.png]]	File:Blockhead-icon.png

External links
External link	http://theblockheads.net	http://theblockheads.net
External link with different label	[http://theblockheads.net The Blockheads website]	The Blockheads website
Numbered external link	[http://theblockheads.net] [http://theblockheads.net/forum/]	[1] [2]
Avoiding external links	<nowiki>http://theblockheads.net</nowiki>	http://theblockheads.net

Images

Additional information can be found on Help:Contents. Also see our image guidelines.

Linking to an image
Link to a image's description page	[[:File:Blockhead-icon.png]]	File:Blockhead-icon.png
Link to a image directly	[[Media:Blockhead-icon.png]]	Media:Blockhead-icon.png

Showing an image on a page
Inline images	[[File:Dirt Icon.png]]
Thumbnail images	[[File:Dirt Icon.png|thumb]]
Changing the size	[[File:Kelp HD.png|40px]] [[File:Kelp HD.png|x40px]]
	Note: The first image is set to width 40 pixels, while the second is set to height 40 pixels.
Adding a caption	[[File:Dirt Icon.png|thumb|40px|Dirt]]	Dirt
Aligning an image	[[File:Dirt Icon.png|thumb|left|40px|L]] [[File:Dirt Icon.png|thumb|center|40px|C]] [[File:Dirt Icon.png|thumb|right|40px|R]]	L C R
Linking to a page with an image	[[File:Apple Icon.png|40px|link=Apple]] Click the apple	Click the apple

Galleries
Basic	<gallery> File:Young Shark.png|A young shark File:Shark Beneath Boat.png|Shark below boat File:Shark Pack.png|Three sharks together File:Shark Swarm 121.png|Lots of sharks File:Shark Blocked.png|Weird shark </gallery>
A young shark Shark below boat Three sharks together Lots of sharks Weird shark

Categories

A list of categories can be found here.

Categorizing pages
Categorizing a page	[[Category:The Blockheads Wiki]] [[Category:Guide]]	Categories:  The Blockheads Wiki     Guide
	Note: When editing, categories should be put at the bottom of the page. When viewing, they are shown at the bottom of the page in a gray box.
Using sort keys	[[Category:The Blockheads Wiki|Help]] [[Category:Guide|Help]]	Categories:  The Blockheads Wiki     Guide
	Note: In this example, the page would be sorted in the categories as if the page's title was "Help".

Linking to a category
Link to a category	[[:Category:Guide]] [[:Category:Food|Food]]	Category:Guide Food

Templates

A list of templates can be found here. Different templates are used differently. Look at the template page for documentation or at a page where it's used to see how it's used.

Calling a template with no inputs
{{disambig}}
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If a link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category:  Disambiguation pages
Note: This template, {{disambig}}, labels a page as a disambiguation page and categorizes it as one.

Calling a template with one input
{{See also|Donkey}}
See also: Donkey
Note: This template, {{See also}}, is used at the beginning of an article or section to direct people to related articles.

Calling a template with multiple unnamed inputs
{{See also|Dodo|Scorpion}}
See also: Dodo and Scorpion

Calling a template with multiple named inputs
{{Achievement Infobox |Name=Storyteller |Image=Storyteller Ach.png |Points=10 }}
Storyteller Points 10
Note: This template, {{Achievement Infobox}}, is used on articles about an achievement to display small bits of information.

Calling a table template with a mixture of unnamed and named inputs
{{Bench|header}} {{Bench|entry|Steam Generator|Burns fuel for electricity.|1|Steel Block|1|Steam Engine|1|Electric Motor|Time2=8}} |}
Icon Name Slogan Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 Rush Cost Double-Time Steam Generator Burns fuel for electricity. 1 x 1 x 1 x 16 TC 8
Note: This template, {{Bench}}, is used on articles about a crafting surface to display crafting recipes. To create this table, the Bench template is called with the first parameter "header", which creates the column labels. The Bench template is then called again, with the parameters "entry", "Steam Generator", "Burns fuel for electricity.", "1", "Steel Block", "1", "Steam Engine", "1", "Electric Motor", and the Time2 parameter is set to "8". This lets it display the crafting recipe for a steam generator (one steel block, one steam engine, and one electric motor), with the slogan "Burns fuel for electricity." and a rush cost with double-time of eight time crystals. Lastly, the table is closed with a |}.

Tables

Table styling is done using CSS and a few HTML attributes.

Tables
Starting a table	{|
Creating a header	! Header content
Creating a row	|-
Creating a cell	| Cell content
Ending a table	|}
{| ! Header 1 ! Header 2 |- | Cell 1 | Cell 2 |}	Header 1 Header 2 Cell 1 Cell 2

Attributes
Assigning attributes to a table	{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto;"
Assigning attributes to a cell	| style="text-align:right;" | Cell content
Vertically merged cells	| rowspan="2" | Cell content
Horizontally merged cells	| colspan="2" | Cell content
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto;" ! Fruit ! Price ! Location |- | colspan="2" | No apples | rowspan="3" | Shop A |- | Oranges | style="text-align:right;" | 12 |- | Mangos | style="text-align:right;" | 15 |}	Fruit Price Location No apples Shop A Oranges 12 Mangos 15

See also

• Help:Contents
• The Blockheads Wiki:Sandbox

External links

• More information on MediaWiki
• Wikipedia editing cheatsheet