User:TheSt0ryTeller/Sandbox
Welcome to the guide for the Assassin's Creed Wikia.
This guide is meant to help those new people in need and to test out my skills as an editor and to test my grammar. Now lets begin.
What is the Assassin's Creed Wikia?
The Assassin's Creed Wikia is a gateway into the knowledge of the Assassin's Creed series, there are many different features besides the process of editing on this wiki. These features include:
- The IRC Chat (The link will be down below)
- The Apprentice Initiative (We will see more about that later)
- The Voting process (More information is still to come)
- The Talk Page
- Blogs
- Userpage (Information still to come)
- The Istruttorium
And many more. This guide should help you have a better understanding of the wiki entirely and its many assets. This was my use of the Center alignment feature which will be explained later on.
The Basics of Editing
The basics of editing can be easy to learn but for those who don't know how to use it and some of the features, this is the part that you will need to focus on. I will show how to use each of these features from left to right.
Text Appearance
You may notice a small box with an arrow pointing downwards with the writing Normal next to it. That is for the font of the edit, it makes headers or just enables the writing that you're reading right now. Lets take a look.
Normal is this type of writing, I just have it on bold to make it look nicer, we'll get to the bold afterward.
Notice the content box on the top of the screen! Clicking on one will send you down here!
The header that says "The Basics of Editing" is in
Header 2. Now, you'll notice many examples of this heading on the pages of Ezio Auditore, Nikolai Orelov and Altair's page. You may notice as you go along that the headers get smaller and smaller.
Header 3 (Example)
Header 3 is slightly smaller than Header 2 but bigger than Header 4 and Header 5.
Header 4 (Example)
There is only one last header before it moves onto coding which is Header 5.
Header 5 (Example)
Now, there's a lot to know about coding. We will talk about that in the NEXT sandbox.
This is the example of coding.
Now the next step we're going to take is Bolding, now bolding will turn this text into this. You can change it by pressing the B next to the header option.
Now, the leaning i stands for Italic and can change this normal text into this. See the difference?
The U with the line underneath is the underline feature. It changes the normal text and just underlines it.
The S with the line running through it is the STROKES feature. It puts a line through the text.
Now the next 2 options will allow you to compile a list like so:
- Example 1
- Example 2
- Example 3
The option on the left with the dots will make it like the dot points above. The option on the right will make replace the dots with numbers, for example:
- Example 1
- Example 2
- Example 3
Now the next feature is using links, you'll notice how one (chain) is broken in half. Clicking that while highlighted over the link itself will take off the Hyperlink. When you click on the unbroken chain a box will pop up telling you what you're linking and if the page exists or not. To small buttons will appear below saying "To a Wiki page" or "External link" when you choose to a wiki page it'll show you a list of options as you type until there is no more chance of the page existing. When you press on External link, on the top text box, put in the page title of any website and once either one of the options are done and they boxes are filled, press the blue button in the bottom right corner.
The next 2 options either decrease or increase indent, an example of indent is:
- Examples, examples and examples
That is clearly an example of increased indent. An example of decreased indent is the text in which your reading now. No space separating the left side from the right side.
This example is alignments, there are 3 types of alignments which are Left, Center or Right.
This is an example of left alignment.
This is an example of the right alignment, see the difference?
This is an example of center alignment.
Now, those are the basics of Text Appearance and next we'll be covering the Inserting options.
Inserting Options
The first option of inserting will allow you to insert images you'll get the option to either add a picture from the wiki or upload your own. When picked (either one) you'll get an option to choose the size, where it will be (either left or right) and what the caption will say. While in edit mode you'll get two options to either modify or remove it. The picture on the right is an example.
The next option with the multiple frames (3 to be exact) is the option to add a gallery. Now, there are 3 types of galleries.
- Create a Gallery
- Create a Slideshow
- Main Page Slider
The gallery option will make it turn out like:
Gallery Example
Slideshow Example
The example of a Slideshow:
Add a Video
The add a video option allows you to.. well... add a video, it's icon is a roll of film and it looks like this when placed.
The next option is to insert a table. You can add anything to the table whether it be userboxes, images or just plain texts. You can choose the dimensions of the table itself while choosing how much collums or rows you want there to be in the table. An example of it is here:
| Food | Flavor |
| Doughnut | Jam |
| Muffin | Choc Chip |
Now the next option I will not give an example of because there are many options. The next option is templates, it will allow you to choose from a variety of templates. These templates may include infoboxes, welcome, delete and wikipedia templates.
The last option in Inserting is to insert a signature. Now, this is mandatory when leaving a message on a talk page. You can either enter 4 tildes (Tildes= ~) Now, an example of this is:
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3954/1133695383bcdc8m3.jpg 18:22, July 16, 2011 (UTC)
Control Options
There are only 3 options in control, 2 of them being undo and redo. These 2 can either revert or repeat. The very last option is known as Source mode, you can edit and although in normal edit mode you cannot see if you've made a spelling error, it shows the mistake with a red underlining. Source mode is a more simple way of editing if worried about spelling error.