Contribute to the CW-Wiki
Hello and welcome on the short overview on how to help with the ChatWars-Wiki! The following sections cover basic info on how to edit and write pages on this wiki and list contact information and useful sites with help.
Introduction
To be able to write and edit pages in this wiki, an account is required. This can be done by clicking on "Create Account" in the top right corner of the website. Please note, that using and verifying the email-adress is mandatory. The email provider hotmail seems to block incoming mails, so please use another provider for the account on this website.
Contact
We have a telegram use for discussion on this wiki. Please join the group for questions or any other topics around this wiki. https://t.me/joinchat/AaDbq05AZVnNRqU0nojCWg Feel free to contact @TheGrumpyGecko for any questions or help.
Basic editing steps
General info
Editing pages in the wiki is pretty simple: opening an article while logged in on the wiki-account here presents the option (also top right) to edit the page. A textbox with the sourcecode of the page opens. Please take use of the "preview" option to check your edits before publishing them, because every edit spams the "recent changes list" and that is a useful tool to check and proofread pages. The wiki is using a software called "mediawiki". There is a lot of help/tutorials and forum boards for questions on the internet. Searching for "mediawiki + topic" will show a lot of pages with explanations on nearly everything. Mediawikis search tool is of great help, too.
Creating/Editing Item pages (Forms & Templates)
When editing the most common item types you have to use the forms as they are standardized (and remove most of the work needed from creating items) to do this just follow the "Create Item Page" link in the sidebar or click here. For in-depth information about how these systems work read this article.
Emoticons
We added the emoticons that telegram provides to this page. Please take a look at https://chatwars-wiki.de/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Emoticons for a list. To use an emoticon, use the command that is given there in the following way:
:Attack:
This gives: 
. For whatever reason, a space before the first colon is required.
Most basic markup things
Writing the sourcecode of a page is mostly straightforward, but I want to point out some of the most used markup commands to format pages.
Textformatting
The following table about text formatting in mediawikis is taken from [1] and is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
| Description | You type | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Character (inline) formatting – applies anywhere | ||
| Italic text | '' italic'' |
italic |
| Bold text | ''' bold''' |
bold |
| Bold and italic | ''''' bold & italic''''' |
bold & italic |
| Escape wiki markup | <nowiki> no ''markup''</nowiki> |
no ''markup'' |
| Section formatting – only at the beginning of the line | ||
| Section Headings of different levels | == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== ====== Level 6 ======
|
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6 |
| Horizontal rule | Text before ---- Text after |
Text before Text after |
| Bullet list |
* Start each line * with an [[Wikipedia:asterisk|asterisk]] (*). ** More asterisks give deeper *** and deeper levels. * Line breaks <br />don't break levels. *** But jumping levels creates empty space. Any other start ends the list. <!--T:160--> * combine bullet list ** with definition ::- definition ** creates empty space <!--T:161--> * combine bullet list ** with definition *:- definition ** without empty spaces <!--T:162--> *bullet list :- definition :* sublist that doesn't create empty :* spaces after definition |
Any other start ends the list.
|
| Numbered list |
# Start each line # with a [[Wikipedia:Number_sign|number sign]] (#). ## More number signs give deeper ### and deeper ### levels. # Line breaks <br />don't break levels. ### But jumping levels creates empty space. # Blank lines # end the list and start another. Any other start also ends the list. |
Any other start also ends the list. |
| Definition list | ;item 1 : definition 1 ;item 2 : definition 2-1 : definition 2-2 |
|
| Indent text | : Single indent :: Double indent ::::: Multiple indent This workaround may harm accessibility. |
|
| Mixture of different types of list |
# one # two #* two point one #* two point two # three #; three item one #: three def one # four #: four def one #: this looks like a continuation #: and is often used #: instead <br />of <nowiki><br /></nowiki> # five ## five sub 1 ### five sub 1 sub 1 ## five sub 2 The usage of |
|
| Preformatted text | Start each line with a space. Text is '''preformatted''' and ''markups'' '''''can''''' be done. This way of preformatting only applies to section formatting. Character formatting markups are still effective. |
Text is preformatted and markups can be done. |
| Preformatted text blocks |
<nowiki>Start with a space in the first column,
(before the <nowiki>).
Then your block format will be
maintained.
This is good for copying in code blocks:
def function():
"""documentation string"""
if True:
print True
else:
print False</nowiki>
|
Start with a space in the first column, (before the <nowiki>).
Then your block format will be
maintained.
This is good for copying in code blocks:
def function():
"""documentation string"""
if True:
print True
else:
print False
|
