Stargate Wars:Guide to editing
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This page serves to show new users of WikiCode the basics. Please add to this guide if you can constructively do so. To make tests, please see The Sandbox.
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[edit] The basics
A lot of WikiCode can be learned simply through examining the code for the article. For example, see the edit page of this article to see italic code (two apostrophes either side of the text), or bold (three apostrophes).
To make links to other articles within this wiki, use [[article name, case sensitive]] . In the code for that link, <nowiki> and </nowiki> denote that you do not wish to use WikiCode for the text between each nowiki... (that is, where it says "and"). This will allow you to display things that would normally create something different as normal text.
For example, to make a heading one places two equal signs either side of the heading text. This creates a level-two heading. To show this on the actual article, use ==Heading text== Headings can also have an infinite number of subsections, and sub-subsections, ad-infinitum. To do this, increase the number of equal signs in the heading code. For example:
[edit] More help
For more help, leave a message on my talk page. There are three types of links. The first one, as mentioned in the second paragraph of this article (under "The Basics"), is a link to an internal article (that is, an article on this wiki) with the name of the article as the displayed name as the link. This is seen in User:Hunterd. Another type of link is an internal link that shows an alternate name for the article, as seen in ZPMMaker or the GA. Note that the actual name comes first, followed by what you wish to display the link as. The third and final type of link is an external link. Note that for internal links you don't need to use underscores instead of spaces (in the names of articles... see The Grand Alliance, which has spaces in its name), however one cannot have a space in an external link. Wikia and all wikis that work on this code distinguish between the link and what name the link is to be displayed with by using a space - in the above "external link", the WikiCode realised that the link to my Wikipedia user page had stopped due to the space between the URL itself and the name.
It seems confusing, but you'll get the hang of it soon enough.
[edit] Writing articles
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