TrueEarth wiki cheatsheet

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True Earth wiki cheat sheet

Page BuildingTips

Topic How To
Create New Page 1: Create a link to a page that doesn't exist. For example: [[Your Page]]
2: use the link to navigate to your new page, It will automatically put you into create page mode.

Links

Topic How To
Link to a page [[Page Name]]
[[Folder\Page Name]]
Link to a video or other website just paste the URL into the Wiki editor (including the https://www part):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjiwzClN490
"Friendly" Link to a video or other website [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjiwzClN490 Website Name]
Make a Image Link [[File:ImageFile.png|40px|link=Index|Index Page]]

Formatting Tips

Topic Example
Bold Text '''Your text''' = Your text

Or highlight the text you want bold and use the Bold button from the wiki editor toolbar:
Bold button

Italic Text ''Your text'' = Your text

Or highlight the text you want italic and use the Italic button from the wiki editor toolbar:
Italic button

Superscript Text <sup>Your text</sup> = Your text

Or highlight the text you want in superscript and use the Superscript button from the wiki editor toolbar:
Superscript button

Numbered List # Numbered list item = 1. Numbered list item

Or click the bullet icon on the wiki editor toolbar:
Numbered List button

Bulleted List * Bulleted list item = • Bulleted list item

Or click the bullet icon on the wiki editor toolbar:
Bullets button

Heading == Heading text ==

Use "Heading 2" from the Heading dropdown
Heading menu

Subheading === Subheading text ===

Use "Heading 3" from the Heading dropdown
Heading menu

Make a Quote <blockquote>Your Text here</blockquote>
Inline Ref LinK <ref name=RefName></ref>
References Section <references>...Your References Here (See below)...</references>
References in Ref Section <ref name="RefName">Reference Text or Link</ref>

Table Example:
(You can use this example, but it's best to use the editor's built in Table creator icon) Table button

{| class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Table Caption

|- ! Header text !! Header text !! Header text

|- | Example || Example || Example

|- | Example || Example || Example

|- | Example || Example || Example

|}

Help Topic Links

Topic Link
General Help https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents
Image Help https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images
Table Help https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables
Formatting Help https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
Link Help https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links
More Link Help https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links/en

Administration Links

Topic Link
Upload File https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:Upload
User List https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers
List of uploaded files https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles
List of broken links https://trueearth.wikitide.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages

Get help for building pages

  • Training videos - Sometimes watching a video is easier to learn from.
  • Community support - Can't work this thing? request a page to be built for you, or ask for help.
  • Community requests - Edit the community request page to add a list of ideas that you would like to see built.

Additional Resources

Additional Resources to help you learn how to edit a wiki / ways to contact wikitide support for site trouble.
Please, before you contact wikiTide, reach out to our own wiki contributor community first here: Community support

  • Help Guide - Online Help on MediaWiki (e.g. navigation, editing, deleting pages, blocking users)
  • Help Center - Online help center On WikiTide.
  • WikiTide FAQ - Frequently asked questions On WikiTide.
  • Discord - Chat with Wikitide support people (like if there's site issues)
  • Phorge - Get help On Phorge.
  • IRC - Get help On IRC in #wikiforge on irc.libera.chat.
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