Wiki FAQ

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Wiki FAQ

How do I go from the forum to the wiki?

Make sure you're accepting cookies from this site. Create a user account. UserPreferences should take you there. After that you can click on GeneralDiscussion or the other links from the FrontPage. See Creating A New Topic on how to start a "post".

How do I get rid of the white background?

Create a user account. Go to UserPreferences. Change theme from Classic to Starshine. Press Save.

How do I create a homepage?

Creation of homepages is highly encouraged. Please see the relevant section of HelpForBeginners for instructions.

How do I change the Navigation Bar?

Go to UserPreferences and add the page names in the Quick Links section, one page per line. The standard four pages should be listed, and you may end e.g. with

FrontPage
RecentChanges
FindPage
HelpContents
HelpForBeginners
HelpOnEditing
WikiSandBox

if you want a direct link to some help pages.

How do I make a comment show on the RecentChanges page?

While you are editing a page, look just below the edit box in which you are typing. There is another, single-line edit box down there. Just above that single-line edit box is the heading "Optional comment about this change". Whatever you type in that edit box will appear in the RecentChanges commentary once you save your changes.

The comment field isn't all that long, so try to be brief. You'll be made aware of the end of field if you hit it; the edit box will not accept additional characters after that.

How do I name a link to a subpage?

[wiki:Self:Classes/Axemaster Axemaster] yields Axemaster. However, if the page has spaces in it, you have to get tricky: [wiki:Self:Modules/Annals_20of_20Ea first age module] gives first age module

How do I name a link that contains spaces or other special characters?

See SyntaxReference.

How do I name a link to a subheading on a given page?

Click on the table of contents entry you wish to link to -- the wiki will jump you down to that subheading.
Go up to the URL bar of your browser. There will be text there looking something along the lines of: http://wiki.t-o-m-e.net/Wiki_20Frequently_20Asked_20Questions#head-4c02f1f5f2dafd046c01b3e52f8f2b82c61ad625 This URL is for the footnote subheading on this page.
Select all that text, copy it, and paste it into the page you are working on.
Delete the http://wiki.t-o-m-e.net/ part -- don't forget that last '/'! -- and replace it with wiki:Self:, like this:

wiki:Self:Wiki_20Frequently_20Asked_20Questions#head-4c02f1f5f2dafd046c01b3e52f8f2b82c61ad625

On the page, this will appear as:

Wiki_20Frequently_20Asked_20Questions#head-4c02f1f5f2dafd046c01b3e52f8f2b82c61ad625

which works just fine but is messy.
If you alias it, it will look better:

[wiki:Self:Wiki_20Frequently_20Asked_20Questions#head-4c02f1f5f2dafd046c01b3e52f8f2b82c61ad625 Wiki FAQ: How do I add a footnote?]

On the page, this will appear as:

Wiki FAQ: How do I add a footnote?

Test your link in preview mode to be sure you did not accidentally truncate that long alphanumeric string.

How do I add a 'symbolic link'? (aka redirect)

Create a page with only one line, #REDIRECT pagename, where pagename doesn't contain opening and closing quotes, even if it contains spaces. This should be used sparingly, since it is more difficult to edit or delete these pages, e.g. for commonly used page names (e.g. artifact and Artifact), for different or commonly used singular / plural nouns (e.g. Class and Classes), for commonly used synonyms or acronyms (e.g. DitL and DayInTheLifeArchive).

How do I rename or delete a page?

Create the new page under the new name and paste the old contents in, where appropriate. Then request a deletion on Deletion Requests.

How do I revert a page after SPAM?

In the bar that's normally on the right, click 'Info' from the list Edit/View/Diffs....
Under the "action" part of the page that show up, you can click 'view' to find the right page to revert to.
And once you've got the right page, just click 'revert', also under that action section.

How do I create an opinion poll on the wiki?

To create a poll on the wiki:

On the main page (such as GeneralDiscussion) create a link with the title of your poll. You make such a link by editing GeneralDiscussion and adding a line to the top of the list of threads with something like this:
```
["Poll: <my question here>"]
```
Click on the Save Changes button at the bottom of the edit box area.

After the page refreshes, click on your newly created link. Delete the default text in the edit box that appears, and then enter your post. Start with your question (and discussion, if it applies.) Add instructions on how to vote -- you can copy and paste from here if you like. Put down a pair of horizontal bars, then list your poll options between them, one per line, preceded by a space and a *, like this:

This is my poll about whether you think the glass is half full or half
empty. Blah blah blah....

To vote, please edit this page. Below the first '----', add one '*' after
the option you want to vote for. If the existing options don't meet your
needs, add a new one. Add any comments below the second '----' of the
polling area. Then hit the Save Changes button.
----
 * Half full : *
 * Half empty:
----
MayLith: Of course it's half full!

How do I add a footnote?

Method 1

Footnotes are useful when referencing a specific place in a very long thread, such as a DitL. Footnotes use anchors. Anchors behave similarly to an HTML #name, but they work wiki-wide.

Pick an anchor name. This name must be:
- A single word or phrase with no spaces. Concatenation and/or hyphenation is fine. Be careful not to inadvertently create a WikiName when naming your anchor: Don't put multiple capitalized words in the string.
- As unique as possible. Keep in mind that a) more than one person may place an anchor in the same thread and b) you might place more than one there yourself. Also, avoid making an anchor to the name of an item (e.g. Sting), as items are likely to be referenced in many places. An anchor named "Maylith-2004-7-16-stingditlzizzo<charname>day3" seems like overkill, yet this amount of detail is probably not a bad idea. Only those editing that thread will see it, so ugly doesn't matter.
- Not located in a formatted heading. (I just tried it, it doesn't work.) Put the anchor above or below the heading instead.
Edit the original thread. Add your anchor in the place you wish to refer to. Put the anchor at the top of the section you want to reference, not at the bottom.
- ```
code:    blah blah blah blah [[Anchor(anchorname)]] blah blah blah
example: blah blah blah blah [[Anchor(footnoteFAQ)]] blah blah blah
```
Create a new thread or make your post. To link to your anchor, use this format:
- ```
code:    [#anchorname visible text of link]
example: [#footnoteFAQ Try me]
```

In use, that looks like: Try me.

Note: There really is an anchor named footnoteFAQ at the top of this FAQ entry, so you may refer others to this as necessary.

If you have set the option Show top/bottom links in headings in your UserPreferences, up and down arrows are displayed in a heading. You jump to the top or bottom anchor in a page by clicking on the up or down arrow in a heading, respectively. These anchors could be used like this:

[[Anchor(top)]]
Page Title
[[TableOfContents]]
... page text ...
[[Anchor(bottom)]]

Method 2

You may also use the macro [[FootNote(explaining text)]] for short numbered footnotes shown at the end of the page.

Example: You only need footnotes¹ in a tome ², but not in ToME³.

In the page text, this looks like

Example: You only need footnotes[[FootNote(This is a footnote)]] in a tome
[[FootNote(tome - a large or scholarly book)]], but not in
ToME[[FootNote(ToME - Troubles / Tales of Middle Earth, a roguelike game)]].

The text of a footnote is not displayed together with the other text, but in a separate section at the end of the page. If you click on the tiny footnote number in the main text, the explaining text at the bottom of the page is shown. By clicking here on the footnote number brings you back to the referencing section of the main text.