Help:Editing

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Categories

At the bottom of any given document shound be links in the following format:

[[Category: Name]]

This will cause a special link to appear where it is placed, leading to a category.

If the document's name begins with the word "The", as in "The Exploding Mushroom" it is preferable to do this:

[[Category: MFGGer|Exploding Mushroom]]

To add an article to more than one category, simply add more Category tags:

[[Category:Fangame]]

[[Category:Site]]

To link to a category without placing the article in said category, append a colon to the beginning:

[[:Category:Site]]

Note that the {{MFGGer}} and {{Game}} templates will automatically add the page to the MFGGer and Fangame categories respectively. Also some badge templates will also link the user with a category, such as the Administrator badge template which will put the page in the MFGG Administration category. It won't make a difference if you have the code twice.

Images

Images are placed similar to URLs: [[Image:ImageName.ext]]

Optionally, you can move the image to the right: [[Image:ImageName.ext|right]]

And thumbnail it: [[Image:ImageName.ext|thumb|right]]

And give it a description (thumbnail only): [[Image:ImageName.ext|thumb|right|Description]]


Lists

Lists may be in two formats:

  • This is
  • The first format
   *This is
   *Another

These lists are obtained by placing an asterisk (*) and then the items. Indenting the asterisk with four spaces grants it its own box.

Redirects

To create a redirect to another article, create an article containg only this:
#REDIRECT [[Some Article]]
The article name is case-sensitive. This is particularly helpful in User: <name> articles, accessed by clicking a username such as on Last Made Changes page.

Templates

Templates are called by placing their name in between curled brackets:

{{MFGGer}}

Fields are allocated to the template by placing them after |'s:

{{MFGGer
| name = Their username 
| othernames = Any other names they've used, separate with commas 
| type = Their member group: Admin, Moderator, Member, Banned 
| realname = Their actual name 
| interests = Their interests, separate with commas 
| badges = (see below)
}}Place beginning of article here with no line break

Disabling Code

<nowiki>'''[[SonicProject]]'''</nowiki>

This prevents '''[[SonicProject]]''' from parsing as SonicProject, or any other code in the nowiki tag.