Help:Editing

Help:Editing

Eternal Lands Wiki

General editing help

Everything from page creation over basic editing through advanced topics is covered in this

• User's Guide

Tutorials can be found

• at the English Wikipedia
• and Meta.

Eternal Lands specific editing help

• Before creating a page, please search (use the search function) if the contents you intend to add isn't already available somewhere else.
• Pages that describe an item of Eternal Lands should have the same name as the item, use the eye to find out the name of an item.
• The above is true for images as well. Note that spaces and some other special characters, such as & aren't a problem in image names (however / won't work).
• If there is already a page about something but you think it should be available under a different name as well, you can create a redirect page that links to the existing page (e.g. create a page FE that redirects to Fire Essence).
• If unsure about how to do something, check how it's done in other places of the wiki.
• Cross-links are the essence of a Wiki, If there is no link to a page, it doesn't exist, so remember to add cross-links to all relevant pages.
• You can also add links to non-existent pages (again, search if the information you're linking to isn't available somewhere else in the wiki), that way other authors can see what pages are wanted.
• Use the Show preview button to preview your work.

How to handle secrets

To log a secret you should

• create a post in the secrets thread of our forum (see forum:173 for details).
• Link from the page the secret belongs to to that post:

 [[forum:topic-number|Name of the Secret]]

• topic-number is the number in the link to your topic after t=
• and finally edit the forum post to link back to the wiki page where the secret exists.

Please see Quests for an example.

Templates

Templates provide a nice possibility to include recurring information such as navigation bars, lists of shop items etc. in pages as well as unify the appearance of the wiki.
A complete list of all templates of the wiki can be found on this page.

One template that you will definitely need when creating a new page is the FoCW Header, it creates the header of the wiki pages, this page's header was created by

{{FoCW Header|Help:Editing|Eternal Lands Wiki}}

The second argument can be left empty.

Should you need more info

If you need information about how to work with a wiki, you can try the following links for information:

• Join the wiki channel in game 9454 (is this still in use?)
• Have a look at other pages to see how it's done.
• Browse the links above, the user's guide (which is also available by the Help link in the navigation box) should be more than enough.