Thread:Spacemarine9/@comment-6042046-20130623003044/@comment-6042046-20130623040022

YESSS, another ensnared for the sacrificial inferno which fuels our wiki engines... >:D

All malevolent gloating aside, a Knife-and-Candle guide would be rather valuable to a sizable portion of the player base. You already write regular updates and guides about K&C on your tumblr site; if you polish and publish them here, it'd be manageable double posting. Wouldn't want to overtax you. (A money-making guide would be good, too. We should contact Urthdigger for that; maybe you can collaborate.) Any seriously lengthy venture should get a guide (i.e. Literary Ambitions and Forgotten Quarter Expeditions). Write whatever guide you think would help people, really; set your own pace.

When I say "polish", I mean adding whatever fancy icons and photos you want. Also, many of the players don't use English as their primary language, so obscure slang should probably be changed or removed. (Don't ask me how they navigate difficult British slang and dialects in the game. I, myself, would like to know!)

Publishing Basics: Create a new page by clicking the "Contribute" button and choosing the "Add a Page" option. (The "Contribute" button is located underneath your username in the upper right corner.) It'll prompt you for a page title.

Once you're done with the title, you'll be free to play in the editing screen. The two most important buttons are "Preview" in the upper right corner (typically allows you to view your changes with 100% accuracy) and the green "Publish" next to it (makes your editing changes semi-permanent; press when you feel you're done). If you'd like to rewind a Published page to its previous state, just "Undo" it in its history page. It's located by clicking the down arrow next to the word "Edit" of the top green "Edit" button and choosing "History". (Clicking "Edit" itself will take you to the page's editing screen.)

There are two sides -- faces -- to the editing screen, the "Visual" tab and the "Source" tab. The Visual face is straightforward and beginner-friendly; you don't need to be familiar with web code to use it, and it looks like a bare bones MS Word offshoot. (Hovering your mouse over the buttons gives you descriptions of their uses.) The "Photo" button there is quite helpful as a search tool to browse and add images from our gallery.

(Photos Note: Quicklist page has a list of icons and their related items, qualities, etc. When in doubt, right-click the game icon and learn its web address through "View" or "View Image Info". The "***.png" at the end of the address is the file name and it should be the same name used here.)

Another good thing about the Visual tab is its automatic ability to add templates: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Templates If you click the yellow link "Add other templates", a window will pop up with a list of commonly used templates and the option to search templates. They're pre-coded skeletons to liven up a page. You add the meat and bones. (As an example, add the "Action" template to a bare page. Preview it. Then click on the green jigsaw puzzle piece -- that's the template itself! -- to edit it. Fill in some blanks. Preview your new changes. See what I mean?)

In the "Source" side, you can see most or all of a page's code. It's the more intimidating face of the editing screen, but once you're familiar with the wiki's mechanics, you'll find yourself editing in Source often rather than Visual. Many of the editors here find it faster to add templates in Visual before editing the rest in Source mode, myself included. If you're curious about how something is coded, go ahead and peek at a page's code. We won't charge you for looking. We charge for touching. ;)

This is the place to experiment with code and poke around stuff just for the heck of it: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Echo_Bazaar_Wiki:Sandbox

Editing Guidelines has more info which you might find nifty, especially how to format images in Source.

Let's talk flavors. The guides shouldn't taste plain and blunt. They should be spicy, tangy, sweet and sharp! Guides can get hella long, so hold people's interest. Less technical speak, more tasty speech. ...Are my vague demands reaching you?? XD

Thank you for agreeing to help! There is currently no "Guides" category page, but it's simple to make one. (Category pages are system-generated indexes. All pages tagged with that category will appear on the page.) If you tag each of your guide pages with "Guides" in the Categories section, their links will be automatically added alphabetically to the category page of the same name. (You can enter new categories on the Visual editing screen. Clicking the "Add category" button in the Categories section of the wiki page itself also works.)

Phew, this covers the necessities. Is there anything else you're wondering about specifically?