Help:Editing

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Wikis allow anybody to edit. However, some people may be new to wikis and thus may not know how to edit. Don't panic! This page is for those people. To edit, you don't need to know HTML to edit an article, all you need to know is English and simple wiki code. You don't even have to register to edit!

Contents 1 Getting started 2 Simple editing 3 abc 4 Adding Images 5 Advanced editing 6 Categories 7 Redirecting pages 7.1 When to use redirects 7.2 When not to use redirects 8 Moving pages 9 Reverting pages 10 Testing 11 See also 12 External links

Getting started

To edit a page, simply click the edit button, which is usually found at the top of the page. Clicking on this button will open the edit box. Once here, simply type in what you want! It's that easy!

When you're done typing, click on the save page button at the bottom of the page. However, before doing so, you may want to click on the show preview button to proofread what you typed, you can also include a summary of what you typed to help other editors get an idea of what you did to the article.

Simple editing

Above the edit box are several buttons:

Icon	Function	What it shows when editing	What it shows on the page
	Bold or strong emphasis	'''RuneScape'''	RuneScape
	Italic or emphasis	''RuneScape''	RuneScape
	Internal link	[[RuneScape]]	RuneScape
	External link	[http://www.runescape.com]	[1]
	Section heading	== abc ==	abc
	Insert image	[[File:Fire rune.PNG]]
	Insert media	[[Media:abc.ogg]]
	Mathematical formula	<math>abc</math>
	Ignore wiki formatting	<nowiki>abc '''[[Bold text]]'''</nowiki>	abc '''[[Bold text]]'''
	Sign talk comments (with time stamp)	--~~~~	Your username 00:12, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
	Horizontal line	----
	Creates a redirect	#REDIRECT [[RuneScape]]	#REDIRECT RuneScape
	Upload and insert an image online	Pops up the upload form

Adding Images

To add images, you must first upload it. Once you've done this, you can edit a page and add [[File:NAMEOFIMAGE.FILETYPE]] to the page. For example, doing [[File:Fire Rune.PNG]] will produce this:

Advanced editing

• Adding a pipe ( | ) allows you to control how an internal link appears. For example, doing [[RuneScape|RuneScape is cool]] will appear as this: RuneScape is cool. You can also use a pipe to hide anything before a colon or in parenthesis. This can be useful when linking to pages with disambiguation tags. To link to a page section, add a number sign and then the heading. For example, doing [[Fishing#Equipment]] will link directly to the equipment section for fishing: Fishing#Equipment. You can also use a pipe as shown above to clean up the link and make it appear simply as fishing equipment.

• With external links, instead of using a pipe, use a space to control the look of external links. For instance, [http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The RuneScape Wiki] will appear on the page as this: The RuneScape Wiki.

• Adding more equal signs to headlines will make them smaller. Also, when a page has four or more headlines, it will automatically generate a Table of Contents at the top of the page.

• Use pipes to modify an image. Modifiers include thumb, frame, size in pixels (e.g. 200px), left, right, and center. You can also add a caption to describe the image by placing words after a pipe. For example, [[File:Example.jpg|200px|right|frame|This is an example]] will produce an image scaled to 200 pixels, on the right side of the page, framed with "This is an example" as a caption.

Categories

Categories help organize pages. To add a category, simply type something like this at the bottom of the article:
[[Category:Skills]]
If you want to add more than one category, simply list them all, like this:
[[Category:Skills]]
[[Category:Quests]]

Redirecting pages

Redirecting pages is useful for sending misspelled pages to the correctly spelled pages. To do this, simply create a page and then type #Redirect [[page name]]. For example, typing #REDIRECT [[Fishing items]] on Fish will make that page automatically link to Fishing items. You can also do this by clicking the redirect button () on the edit toolbar.

When to use redirects

Redirects can be used for a number of things:

• Common misspellings (Abbysal whip)
• Different forms of capitalisation (Rogue's castle)
• Common shortenings or abbreviations (P pot)
• Alternative names

When not to use redirects

However, redirects should not be used to redirect one namespace to another; instead, these pages should be moved. For an unclear term with more than one possible meaning, a disambiguation page may be an alternative to a redirect. Don't forget to redirect any mis-spellings of this term to the disambiguation page. The Dragon page is an example, disambiguating the monster, the armour and the hide.

Moving pages

Moving a page will rename it. To do this, click the move button at the top of the page. You must be logged in to move a page. A redirect page will be created automatically, so moving a page does not break links. The page's history and talk will be moved along with it.

Reverting pages

If you see a page messed up, you can simply revert it to a correct previous version. To do this, you:

• Click on the history tab;
• Click on the date of the version you want;
• Click on the edit tab;
• Save the page. Don't forget to say that you're reverting the page in the summary box!

Testing

If you want to try something out just to see how it looks, you can use the sandbox. The sandbox is just for experimenting, so any changes made to it are temporary.

See also

• Editing guide
• Style guide

External links

• MediaWiki Editor Handbook
• Wikia Tutorial