Screenshot Tutorial for Editing

Note: This isn't complete yet, but it's a decent starting point!

Click the screenshots to view the full versions.

Editor Screen Introduction
To the right of a page's title, there's a bright green 'Edit' button you can press to update a page. Click it now.

Welcome to the editor screen!

There are two sides to it: Visual and Source. They are reflections of each other, as if you're staring into a distorted mirror, yes. 'Visual' is the dressed-up face and 'Source' is the frank face of a page. You can switch between them by clicking the upper brown 'Source' and 'Visual' tabs.
 * Visual - beginner-friendly, and code-fearing folk strictly walk here. Also handy for adding templates!


 * Source - spooky code-infested forest which all code-fearing folk shy away from...at first! Once you familiarize yourself with the editor screen, you'll find it much faster and easier to edit pages through their source code.

Creating New Pages
In the upper right corner, click the white 'Contribute' button and choose to 'Add a Page'. A popup box will then ask you for A) the page title and B) which layout you want. Always choose 'Blank page' for layout:



YEAH! WHOO! YOU made a page! Now what??

Adding Templates
Your first question here might be "What's a template?" I'm not fully certain myself. Maybe I shouldn't be writing this guide... Templates transform basic code into a pretty published article. They do a lot of the grunt work around here, and you should use them whenever it's possible.

From the 'Visual' side of the editor screen, look to the bottom right. Click the yellow 'Add other templates' option. A popup box will appear; it lists the most commonly used templates on the left. Click any of the templates there and the popup box will transform into the template you chose, which then prompts you to fill it in. If you don't want to fill in the template yet, just click the green 'OK' button to place it into the page.



You can also search for other templates in the search box. It has magical instant search capabilities, so it's useful when you can't remember the exact name of a template.

These are the most popular templates [someone flesh out the descriptions, please!]:

Storylet 0 to...I don't know, how high does it go?
 * [Fill Me with a description!]

Card 0 to...ditto, the sky's the limit?
 * [Fill Me with a description!]

Action
 * This is the brain, heart, lungs and nervous system of the wiki. It holds a bunch of stuff! Gosh, someone flesh this darn description out.

Failure
 * You record failures here.

Rare Success
 * This is for the occasional options which offer rare successes.

Item
 * Hair of the wiki, I guess. I'll stop now with these poor body metaphors.

Learn about other templates here.

"How do templates work?"

Wizardry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxBbUuKmV60

...Stop asking questions and get back to editing! You're not paid to ask questions! You say you're also not paid to edit? Yes, you are! You're paid in the good will you earn from your fellow man/mollusk/rodent/fungi/clay/whatever. I could write you a monthly check for GW100 (Good Will currency). Cashing it in will be your problem.

Editing Templates
Let's say you add an 'Action' template to a blank page. What's it look like now?
 * Visual - the template has mysteriously become a grass green jigsaw puzzle piece because that's how sorcery around here works, don't ask me more questions!


 * Source - the template looks like, or maybe  . Both work the same.

Click the Visual template to stuff its parameters with juicy Fallen London bits.



Once you've edited it, you can check how it'll look if it's published. You can either click the green 'Preview' button on the template box, or you can click the brown 'Preview' button in the upper right corner of the editor screen.

Source Code
Click the 'Source' tab to ogle and poke around the innards of a page.

Ehhh, this looks like a bit of a pain. I'll leave it to someone else. *sneaks away like a responsible Admin*

*drops a coding cheat sheet on the way out*

entrance door of a template = 

template house =  

link =  PAGENAME 

bold =   '''

bold, another method =  this here is bold!'''  italics =   '

italics, another method =  this here is italicized! 

double combo of bold and italics =   '

square bullet =  * 

loads an image from our Photos gallery =  



...Flap should explain this in more detail.

Publishing
Once you're satisfied with your work -- or, heck, even if you're not satisfied -- show the rest of the world! Update the wiki page with your changes by clicking the green 'Publish' button in the upper right corner. Whoosh! It's complete!

Undoing Edits
Someone made a boo boo? You can rewind a page to its past self through its History section.

Look at the page's 'Edit' button. Notice the white arrow pointing down? Click that for a dropdown list of options. Choose 'History'.

On the history page, click the yellow 'undo' link to revert the page to a former stage in its glorious publishing career.

Experimentation
The Sandbox is where you want to go for test trials.

'Preview' doesn't always display 100% accuracy. For instance, it can't show you how Expand/Collapse functions will look on a published page. Sometimes, you just won't know what will work till you publish it somewhere. The sandbox is the place for that.