User:Aclectasis/Help

Editing a Page
To change something on a page, just click the &quot;edit&quot; button at the top of the page and it will turn into a textbox containing that page. The basics of the markup can be learned just by clicking the buttons at the top of the editing box. They provide the necessary symbols to use boldface, italics, internal and external links, headlines, embedded images, media file links, mathematical formulas, typing text that won't convert to wiki formatting, your signature with timestamp, and horizontal lines.

Creating a Page
To create a new page on the Minecraft Wiki, editors must register an account, and be a member of the Autoconfirmed user group.

The easiest way to create a new page is to enter the name of the new page in the Go box on the left hand side of your screen. If the page doesn't exist, you'll be diverted to the Search page, which will have a link to the page (  this exact title, a red link.), which you can then click to edit.

Alternatively, look around the wiki for a place where you can insert the link into an existing page, and insert it using the following code:

Insert Link Here

Naturally, replace "Insert Link Here" with the title of your new page.

If you're attempting to create your user page, remember that if you're logged in, there's always a link at the very top of your page that you can click to create your user page.

For more information on links, look here: Help:Links.

Communicating on Talk Pages
All pages on the wiki have &quot;talk&quot;, or &quot;discussion&quot; pages associated with them. These pages are to be used to discuss the content of the page they're about. When posting in talk pages remember to sign all your posts (as this is not a forum, and it's not done for you automatically). In order to sign your post, use. So:

Hello, world! -- ~

Will make:

Hello, world! --Example User 09:04, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

These can be inserted automatically by clicking the signature button on the editor toolbar. The four tildes will be automatically replaced with your username and a time stamp.

Uploading Media
Users who have logged into their accounts can upload media by clicking the "Upload File" link. This link can be found on the sidebar on the left, under the "toolbox" header, on any page on the Minecraft Wiki.

Uploading a file is very self explanatory. Click the "Browse" button to browse your computer for a file you wish to upload. When you've found the file, the Wiki should automatically fill the second box with the file's name, but you can change this if you feel like it. Remember the link to your file will be "File:" infront of the filename you uploaded it as. For example, if someone uploads a image called "Example.jpg" onto the wiki, it will be found at "File:Example.jpg" on the wiki itself.

Finally, if you wish, you can add comments. These are logged as a sort of "note" alongside the uploaded media and will not affect the file in any way.

Placing An Uploaded Image
After you have the image, putting it in the page is a simple matter. Below is the code for placing an image uploaded to the wiki on a page, and the result.





Alternatively, you can add a caption to an image, using a pipe. This text will appear when a user hovers their mouse over the image.





You can also add the image to a page as a thumbnail (smaller version) by following the code below. "thumb" tells the wiki the image is to be added as a thumbnail, and "100px" tells the wiki to make it 100 pixels wide.





As you can see, the above image is automatically shifted to the right. To align it to the left or center is, simply add "left" or "center" as show in the codes below.





You can also easily resize images, without using a thumbnail, with a pipe and the number of pixels:



So if you want to see a tiny image you would put



and you would get...



There are a few more things you can do with images. Experiment!

Placing An Externally Hosted Image
External images cannot be placed on this Wiki. You will have to save them to your computer and upload them here. Remember to be wary of any copyrights attached to that image.