Help:Contents

Overview

This is a guide for how to be a Wiki editor. This includes general Wiki editing information and specific Wiki policy and templates.

Wiki policy

Homecoming Wiki policy

• Article Guidelines
• How to format discussion on a article's Talk/Discussion page.
  • Note that comments should be posted on an article's talk page or on the forums, not the Main Discussion page.
  • Further information: Wikipedia on Talk/Discussion pages

General Wiki policy

• How to be a good Wiki editor
• Wikipedia's Manual of Style
• Wikipedia's policies and guidelines (not all policies here apply to this wiki and some are modified)

Editing Wikis

Formatting pages

• How to edit wiki pages (Wikipedia's main editing help page)
• Help:Formatting (Paragon Wiki's main formatting help page)
• How to format a page with wiki markup language
• Wikipedia's formatting tutorial
• Wikipedia's formatting cheat sheet
• Wikipedia's editing FAQ
• How to create links and Wikipedia on Linking
• Inserting pictures tutorial

Using templates and sample Wiki Markup Language

Main article: Help:Templates

See also: Help:Useful Templates

Standardized formatting is maintained throughout the wiki by the use of sample markup language and templates.

Sample Markup Language

Sample markup language allows for a simple cut-and-paste of formatting code from one page into another and then adding or changing the content to fit the article. This can be done from a blank sample form or by cutting-and-pasting from an existing article.

An example of a blank form that is used for creating a new page for a contact can be found here: Sample contact form.

Templates

Templates are specialized pages that define a specific type of formatting style. Editors can then call that template into a page and apply it to their text to make that text take on that pre-defined formatting. Templates are called with the double curly brackets {{ }} .

For example, on this wiki there are templates for colored fonts. The template for making text red is {{red|SampleText}} which would appear on a page as SampleText.

Creating pages and page name management

• Understanding Namespaces (for example: main · User: · User_Talk: · File: · etc...)
• Creating a new page or article (tip: fill in box on main page)
• Naming an article (tip: the case of the first letter doesn't matter, for every other letter, case does matter!)
• Moving/Renaming a page
• How to lay out a page on Wikipedia
• Page layout help on Homecoming Wiki

Categories

• Understanding categories for readers
• Understanding categories for editors
• More detailed information on categories

Practice

• The wikimedia sandbox (a useful site for playing with formatting without creating a new article)

Image Editing

GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) (wiki). Open source, cross platform. Can do most anything Photoshop can (in the right hands). Make sure you install the GTK+ libraries first.

Paint.NET (wiki) is based on the .NET Framework by Microsoft. Some call it what MSPaint should have been.

Obsolete info

• Store Templates to use so that you don't have to type in the names off all the enhancements a store sells

Older info, may be outdated

• Help:Exploration Badge Template Is this still up to date?