Help:Editing
For starters, if you want to read the actual manual on this, you can find it here. It has more information that you will ever need.
The Basics
Make a New Page
To make a new page, you can type in a page name in the URL bar of your web browser, or more likely, make a link to the page you want to create from another page by surrounding some text with brackets. For example, if you have a character named Bob in a game and you want to put in waaay more information than fits with the campaign page, you can make a link with this text: [[Bob]].
Editing a Page
Mostly you can just type whatever you want into an existing page, matching what you're doing to how the previous person did it. There is a visual editor bar that you can use for various things like bold or whatnot that work enough like Word that you shouldn't have a problem with it. If you click the "Advanced" triangle even more options will appear.
You can use the "Show preview" button to see how your edit will appear before you save it, this is very useful!
The headings system is somewhat important to understand, because it will create a table of contents for a page automatically, and keeps a page organized and easier to find information on. Just surround text on it's own line with equals signs, the more signs, the lower the heading level. For top level headings, use two of them == Like This ==, and add one on each side for each subheading. It might make more sense to you if you look at a page with a lot of headings and click edit on it just to see how it is done.
Images
Probably the number one thing people ask about is putting images into their page. Again the manual has more information than you require, but you can read it if you want to.
The two things you really need to know to do 99% of anything you will want to do are:
- How to upload a file.
- Inserting an image on a page.
- To upload a file, click the "Upload file" link in the "Tools" menu on the left hand side of the page, select a file from your computer and give it a descriptive name (if it's a picture of your character Alice, name it "Alice.jpg" or something similar). Click the "Upload file" button and you're done!
- To insert an image into your page, edit your page and you can either use the visual editor or type wiki markup yourself.
- To use the visual editor just click the picture of a picture, fourth from the left on the line that starts with the bold tool, then fill in the information about your image.
- The basics of using wiki markup is to surround your file name with brackets and a File: tag like this: [[File:Alice.jpg]]. Most often you will want to use the "thumb" option as well to make the image show up as a thumbnail on the side of the page instead of being huge right in the middle, and you can also put a caption under it: [[File:Alice.jpg|thumb|Caption text goes here.]]. The "Upload file" page has this syntax information on it so it will remind you of it every time you upload an image.
Feel free to go into another page that does images the way you want to do them and copy the text from that page, and just type in your own image name on the page you are working on.
You can play around with the options and use the preview feature to make sure you're getting what you want either way.
