How to Edit the Wiki

[aquelia]

I'll be compiling useful links here for how to edit the wiki, for anyone who wants to learn

Starting out? Read these first!
The very basics of Wiki editing and general 'philosophy': http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing
Working with text and images, start out here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples
More advanced editing and 'coding' wuuu: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_editing
List of all wiki shortcuts, pretty useful for when you need to do something over and over and over!: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing_shortcuts

Need to make a template?
We suggest contacting a BGWiki admin so they know why and what for etc but feel free to make one, and then putting it in your /Sandbox (just type /Sandbox at the end of the URL of your user page to create this new page), then submitting it for approval.
Creating and editing templates/style guides: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Edi ... and_tricks
More advanced templates: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_templates

The difference between style guide and templates are as follows -
Style guides makes it so you need to go into the actual coding of the page and look at all the pretty squigglies... like so: http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Template:Weapon

Advanced templates make it so that you enter only the 'content' of each field, without looking at the squiggly codings, like so: http://wiki.bluegartr.com/Template:Quest

A Wiki Expert? Read these to broaden your horizons!
User parser functions in advanced templates: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions

[Woozie]

This should be stickied for idiots like me who suck at editing wikis.