Help:Basics

This page will help new VoxelWiki users get acquainted with how to properly edit and maintain a wiki page. Be sure to read the entire page before starting on your own unless you have previous experience!

Titles

Now, you may be asking yourself: How do I make my page interesting? All the other pages on the wiki are so cool and well-made, especially those ones made by those VoxelWiki Staff! First off, when making a wiki page, you want to organize it to the best of your ability, so it is readable and informative (most of the time). The key to this is using titles in your page. You can see an example of a title above. Titles are in various sizes, as you may have noticed, and their size is dictated simply by the number of Equals signs (=) they have around them. The larger the title, the fewer Equals signs it will have. Here is a convenient little chart to help you! Play around with them, because putting the full examples on this page would make the Contents Box pretty muddled. If you're having trouble remembering how this (actually quite simple) mechanism works, you can just copy-n-paste them right from this page. If you click the View Source tab in the top right hand corner of the page, you'll see these <nowiki> tags around them. We'll get into that later, but don't copy those. Those will make your titles look like they do on this page. Plain-text and nonfunctional.

= Major Title (Don't use this one! This is the same size as the title at the top of your page!) =

== Default Title ==

=== Topic Title ===

==== Sub-Topic Title ====

===== Pretty much just some bolded text.  (This one is pretty useless.) =====

====== I have no idea why you would ever put so much focus on such tiny bolded text.  Completely contradictory. ======

Infoboxes

User Pages

To start editing your own user page, click on your name in the top-right corner of any wiki page (where it tells you you're logged in). You can also skip to your "talk" page from here, where other users can leave you messages.

To make the wiki look more organized and professional, a user named Veret has created helpful, auto-catagorizing infoboxes! Simply copy the below code:

{{Infobox Rank
|name         = The name you are known by in Minecraft.  Don't get cute.
|image        = A picture of you (e.g. "Image:Fabulous.jpg").  This defaults to a picture of a VoxelSmurf.  You don't want that.
|caption      = Displayed under the image.  If you don't want a caption, delete this entire line.
|race         = Are you a human?  Cyborg?  Smurf?  Take a look at the races listed on this wiki, and decide which one your skin looks like.
|whitelisted  = The DATE you were whitelisted.  Ideally just a month and a year, although you can be as specific or as vague as you want.
|builds       = Everything worth mentioning that you've built on the VoxelBox.  That rectangle you made in the Daro doesn't count.
}}

And replace "Rank" with your rank (follow capitalization - Member, LiteSniper, Sniper, Curator, or Admin) then fill in fields with the proper information. This will automatically make your page look nicer! After doing this, be sure to add some text on the page below the infobox code. Be creative!

Cities

Once you are ready to create a city, you can use the city infobox!

{{Infobox City
|name         = The name of your city (defaults to the name of the page it's on)
|image        = The image you want to use (e.g. "Image:Utheon.png").  This defaults to a picture of the Pangea map.
|location     = Your approximate X and Z coordinates.  If you don't know them, stand in your city and type "/getpos" to find out.
|continent    = The giant hunk of land upon which you are situated.
|founded      = Duh, when did you start building?  Just a month & year is good, but you can be as specific or as vague as you like.
|architect    = You, the founder and iron-fisted autocrat of your burgeoning metropolis!
|contributors = All the people you conned into doing your work for you.  If you have several, put "<br/>" in between each name.
|allies       = Is there a city on the VoxelBox that doesn't want you dead?  Put it here!  Same deal for multiple entries; use <br/>.
|related      = Any other cities or areas you think are relevant enough to list here.  Use <br/> for multiple entries.
|travel       = How does one get into your city (e.g. Metrovox)?  More importantly, how does one get out?  As always, <br/> is your friend.
}}

Simply follow the instructions in this (and paste it in) to make city pages look more professional!

Simple Wiki Markup

Alright, you know about organizing your wiki page with text. Now, as it is the purpose of this page, here are more ways to organize your wiki page. There are commonly used text-editting functions conveniently placed right above the text editing box. These symbols are, from right to left, Bold, Italics, Wiki Link, Hyperlink, Title-ify Text, Insert Picture, Insert Media, Non-formatted text, Insert Signature, and Insert Line Break. Try them out yourself! Again, here is a miniature table with what they should look like when typed out.

'''Bold'''

''Italics''

[[Wiki Link]]

== Default Title ==

[[File:Filename.extension]]

[[Media:Filename.extension]]

<nowiki>Non-formatted text</nowiki>

The line below will show up as a signature with a time-stamp.

 --~~~~ 

An example of a properly executed signature is in the box below.

--Andy 20:24, 12 September 2011 (CDT)

In this case, the four tildes are replaced with AndyBz17's signature. You can edit your signature text by clicking on the My Preferences link next to your name in the top right hand corner, and finding the Signature Section under the User Profile tab.

 Text above line break.
 ----
 Text below line break.

More Text Style Tips & Tricks

'''''Bolded Italics'''''

[[Actual Wiki Link|Displayed Link Text]]

Either {{-}} or <br/> will indent text placed after it to the next available line.  Or, just add an extra space between two lines.

Adding an Image

Alright, this one is perhaps the most confusing out of all the neat little tricks, but it is insanely useful and very commonly-used throughout the wiki. This is the special thumb-image. This allows many cool features, such as size, alignment (left, right, or center), and caption text. Neither size nor alignment are necessary to creating a thumb image, and can actually both be used independently outside of a thumb image, but still must remain in the image text string (obviously).

[[File:Filename.extension|size|thumb|alignment|Caption text.]]

Here is how a completely filled-in image thumbnail should look with every option being utilized. This example is taken from Map page.

[[File:8-12Pangea50 Carto thumb.jpg|400px|thumb|right|A Cartograph Map of [[Pangea]] allows you to get an idea of server geography
 and see preview of locales.]]

Gallery

If you want to group a couple of pictures into a gallery with small captions, it is recommended that you use this markup.

 <gallery>
 File:Filename|Caption
 File:Filename|Caption
 File:Filename|Caption
 </gallery>