Help:Editing

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Here's how to edit things. If you don't use the top bar, then follow this guide:

Text editing

Text is the major thing of wikis. Two apostrophes (on both sides) make italic text, three apostrophes makes bold, and five apostrophes makes both.

Code: ''Two'' apostrophes (on both sides) make italic text, '''three''' apostrophes makes bold, and '''''five''''' apostrophes makes both.

Images

To add images, add two square brackets (on both sides) of a file. Go to Special:Upload and then get your filename (Yes, including File:).

Code: [[File:Chaz Wiki on 5-25-25.png]]

Very big, isn't it? After the filename comes some things to decide: [[File:Chaz Wiki on 5-25-25.png|1|2|3|4|5]]

After the filename comes the size in pixels (1). After so is the format (2). It comes in four types:

• thumb shows an image like a thumbnail (and is by default sized to your preferred one) (+ media viewer),
• frameless shows an image without a thumbnail ridging,
• frame shows an image as big as large as can be (with no media viewer), and;
• none makes it a plain HTML image.

After the format is the alignment (3) (left, center, right, or it is not specified), and then the alt (4) (always alt= before it), which should be the same as what comes after, the caption (5). There's actually a hidden sixth one, the link (6), done like the alt, but with a link after (always link=, then the link). So let's learn how to use links.

Chaz Wiki's main page

Code: [[File:Chaz Wiki on 5-25-25.png|700px|thumb|center|alt=Chaz Wiki's main page|Chaz Wiki's main page]]

Links

Links are done with 2 square brackets (on both sides) around text that has an article, for example: Chaz is done with [[Chaz]]. You can also add a pipe divider (the long line that isn't a lowercase "L" or uppercase "i", |) and then some link text, you will have a labelled link. Peepy doesn't link to Peepy, look here: [[Peep|Peepy]]. Links that are red, for example: Teen titans go is done with [[Teen titans go]] (don't make that article) do not exist. To create a nonexistent article (don't use the example red link here, though), you can just click it. Pages can also be blanked and can become redirects, which requires using #REDIRECT and then putting a link with no label next to it.

External links

External links can be done in multiple ways. You can make a fake citation by using the HTTPS:// protocol before the website URL and putting 1 square bracket (on both sides) around it. [1] is done with [https://example.com]. You can also put the URL with the HTTPS:// protocol without the brackets to show the URL, like this: https://example.com. That's just by itself. If you add before the 1 end bracket a space, then some stuff, you will have a labelled external link. [https://example.com Example website] makes Example website.

Headers

A level one header is done with one equal sign before and after your header text: =like here=.
A level two header is done with two equal signs before and after your header text: ==like here==, and so on.

Lists

Lists can be done two ways, ordered (like <ol></ol>), and unordered (like <ul></ul>).

Ordered lists are done with hashtags (#), a space, and then content afterwards. Unordered ones use asterisks instead (*). When making a list, items are done without extra enters, so no:

1. Hello!

1. Hello? Why am I 1 too?

It's:

1. Hello!
2. Howdy!

Coding

To code, use <code> before and </code> after your code line. If you need a series of code lines, use <pre> before and </pre> after your scripts. If you need to use Wikitext demo code, like in this guide, use <nowiki> before and </nowiki> after your now-disabled Wikitext.

If you need to use HTML tags, here are the only ones that work:

• The <big> tag makes things big.
• The <small> tag makes things small.
• The <sup> tag makes things ^superscript.
• The <sub> _{tag make subscript.}
• The <br> tag makes breaks in texts. This can otherwise be done using two enters, 1 before your content, 1 where you'll write it:

Stuff. <br> Seconds! makes: Stuff.
Seconds!

• The <span> and <div> tags work as they do in HTML. Look at the Main Page!
  • The <center> tag works!
  • The <center> tag works!
  • There's a convenient {{color}} template: Swap's name is often put in magenta color.
  • The <abbr> tag abbreviates stuff. (<abbr title="Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone">CHAZ</abbr> --> CHAZ) It also works to add hidden messages in articles, but they have to be decently small.

Gallery

Using <gallery> before and </gallery> after a series of images like this:

<gallery>
Thechaz.png|[[Chaz]]
Peep.png|[[Peep]]
RedSyver.jpeg|[[Red]]
Prince.jpeg|[[Prince]]
Cubeor.png|[[Cubeor]]
Peepy.jpeg|[[Peepy]]
</gallery>

makes this:

• 
  Chaz
• 
  Peep
• 
  Red
• 
  Prince
• 
  Cubeor
• 
  Peepy

Tables

The hardest one of all...

To make a table, you need to start by using this:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Caption text
|-
! Header text !! Header text !! Header text
|-
| Example || Example || Example
|-
| Example || Example || Example
|-
| Example || Example || Example
|}

Here's an explanation (oh boy):

1. {| class="wikitable" makes the table.
2. |+ creates caption text.
3. |- creates a table line, the divisor between table cells. It goes between everything, besides the top and bottom and the 2nd and 2nd-to-last rows.
4. ! starts a header row.
5. | starts a normal row.

The double pipes (||) makes a column.

Remember:
A row goes left to right and is put up and down.
A column goes up and down and is put left to right.

Talk pages

When talking to someone on a talk page, you should use a signature. It's a line of text telling everyone else who you are, when you posted, and a link to your user page. To use a siggy, put --~~~~, which should create something like this:

yada yada nada --Username (talk) 15:54, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

... or something like that. You can also use ~~~ to give just your siggy:

yada yada nada Username (talk)

... or something like that. You can edit your signature in your preferences.

To indent, you can use a certain amount of colons (:) to indent, like this:

Normal text

Indent!

Double colon! (Wait wha...)

Code:

Normal text
:Indent!
::Double colon! (Wait wha...)

I think that's all. If there's anything- oh!

Actual Wikipedia-ing

When doing Wikipedia stuff, as in, making smart stuff, you can use this thing:

We should fight for our rights because, as Ezra Pound said, If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

The code for that is this:

We should fight for our rights because, as <cite>Ezra Pound</cite> said,
<q>If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his
opinions are no good or he's no good.</q>

When getting this stuff, you should (I haven't) use citations, like this random piece of evidence I found:
As quoted after his arrest for treason; The Story of Disloyalty and Betrayal in American History by Nathaniel Weyl (1950), p. 400

How would I put it there though...

Well, I could do this: ^[1].

That is <sup><abbr title="As quoted after his arrest for treason. Weyl (1950), p. 400>[1]</abbr></sup>.

See that? If we had a URL, we could do this:

^[2]

You can make a references section for evidence, like this:

== References ==
#: As quoted after his arrest for treason. Weyl (1950), p. 400
#: https://libquotes.com/ezra-pound/quote/lbq7d4s

Now I think this is it.

If you have any questions, see Help:FAQ.