Tutorial

Basic Instructions on how to use the Earthen Ring Wiki

1.Create an account!
On the upper right hand part of the screen, yous should see a link stating “Create an account or log in.” Click it and follows the instructions on the next page to create your account. Now your ready to make your first page.

2.Creating the page.
The easiest way to create the page is to simply place into the URL what you want for your page to be. So the basic format would be http://earthenring.elwiki.com/index.php/. Example being http://earthenring.elwiki.com/index.php/Delesta. The names are not case sensitive. Also, if the page you wish to create has multiple words in the tittle, you can separate the words by a simple “_” For example http://earthenring.elwiki.com/index.php/Insert_Story_Name.

3.Editing your page
At the top of the page, there should be a small tab called “Edit.” Click it and it will bring you to the edit page. You should see a nice big white text box with nothing in it. This is your canvas. There are a few buttons to the top for the simple formatting such as Bold, Italics, Links, Pictures. The button three from the left, a small button with the text Ab in a light blue is the internal link button. This button makes it easy to link other pages within the Wiki. To use this button, simply enter the exact name of the page that you wish to link to, highlight it, and click the button. There are a few other buttons for things that are for more advanced formatting that will not be covered here. For basic formatting sections, you will place the section name within a series of “=” marks. You can have a total of four different types of headings. For example, if you wish to have a section for history, skills, and stories the formatting would look a little like this = History =  = Skills =  = Stories =  Also, if you wish to have subsections within the sections, it is easy to do as well. Simply add the subsections within the section you wish by simply using a different formatting mark. So for exmaple: = History = == Pre war == == Post war==

After four different sections, the wiki will automatically create a small table of contents for you. Rather nice and handy looking. Also, to simply add a picture into your page, post the url within the wiki. There are ways to format it, but they will not be covered in here.

4.Categories
Categories are the main way how Wiki organizes pages. And to add a category is very simple. Type “ ” Only one category can be declared in one statement. So if you were a Horde Orc you would need to put: This will allow people to go to the Horde category page or the Orc category page and find your character. The categories you will want to have for characters are Faction, Race, and Class. Events is simple as well as the category name is simple Events. Stories is under the category Stories. Locations and Guilds are a tad more involved. Locations is broken up into two categories, Eastern_Kingdoms and Kalimdor. Be sure to use the correct category tag. Guilds are a tad more involved. First it requires a guild page to be created and from there the category tags Alliance_Guilds or Horde_Guilds. It is also highly recommended that the guild leader or the one who created the page to come up with their own category name for their members so the members can add the specified category to their page. For example, Tears of Draenor's guild page would have the Horde_Guilds category tag. Then the leader of the Tears of Dreanor creates a category called Tears for the guild members. All the members of the Tears of Draenor add the category Tears into their profile and they are now all the members are categorized.

Tips
Be creative. These pages are created by users for others to enjoy so go wild and have fun with them There are things that have not been covered in terms of formatting among other things. Feel free to look them up and impress others. If you like the way someone has created their page, fee free to view the source and use what they made. Wiki is open source for a reason. Vandalizing is not tolerated at all. Any forms of vandalizing others pages or creating offensive pages will be dealt with.