Wiki Guide Basics

WIKI CODING BASICS

Bold Text

• To make text appear in bold: use 3 apostrophes → '''text''' → text

Example: Arizona is a Tier V premium battleship.

Italic Text

• To make text appear in italic: use 2 apostrophes → ''text'' → text

Example: Edinburgh is a Tier VII tech-tree cruiser.

Italic and Bold Text

• To make text Italic and Bold: use 5 apostrophes → '''''Italic and Bold''''' → Italic and Bold

Example: Edinburgh is a Tier VII tech-tree cruiser.

Strikeout Text

• To strikeout text → <s>Strikeout</s> → Strikeout

Example: French American cruisers are awesome!

Underline Text

• To underline text → <u>Underline</u> → Underline

Example: American cruisers are awesome!

Line Breaks

• Break is a digital carriage return. These all have the same effect: <br /> <br/> <br>

Example: I am skipping
a
line

and now

multiple ones.

Line Spaces

• Force a space with:  
• This is a non-breaking space, meaning smaller screens (mobile) will not use this space to collapse a line break.

For Example: the text "Aircraft Carriers" could collapse like this...

Aircraft
Carriers make the game great.

However if you use "Aircraft Carriers", the collapse point will be forced to keep "Aircraft Carriers" on the same line:

Aircraft Carriers
make the game great, said nobody!

Source Comments

• Anything between Comment tags is ignored when the page is rendered to the user, but viewable as notes in the source:

Example 1: <!-- This text will not display on the page -->

Example 2: The wiki page processing will ignore the following carriage return<!--
-->because it is "commented out" which is important for some template processing functions

Tables

• Excel-2-Wiki Table Converter
• Mediawiki Help:Tables

Tables: using Wiki Markup tags

• Open Table: {|
• Heading Row: |-
• Heading Data: !
• Table Row: |-
• Row Data: |
• Close Table: |}

Table Example w/ wiki tags:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Header text1 !! Header text2 !! Header text3
|-
| Example 1-1 || Example 1-2 || Example 1-3
|-
| Example 2-1 || Example 2-2 || Example 2-3
|-
| Example 3-1 || Example 2-3 || Example 3-3
|}

Header text1	Header text2	Header text3
Example 1-1	Example 1-2	Example 1-3
Example 2-1	Example 2-2	Example 2-3
Example 3-1	Example 3-2	Example 3-3

Tables: using html tags

• Many of the Legends Wiki pages use html tags for tables vs native wiki markup. This can be helpful when tables are created from templates.
• Start end table: <table></table>
• Start end table row: <tr></tr>
• Start end header data: <th></th>
• Start end table data: <td></tb>

Table w/ html tags:

<table>
<tr>
<th style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Header text1 </th>
<th style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Header text2 </th>
<th style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Header text3 </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 1-1 </td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 1-2 </td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 1-3 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 2-1 </td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 2-2 </td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 2-3 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 3-1 </td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 3-2 </td>
<td style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"> Example 3-3 </td>
</tr>
</table>

Header text1	Header text2	Header text3
Example 1-1	Example 1-2	Example 1-3
Example 2-1	Example 2-2	Example 2-3
Example 3-1	Example 3-2	Example 3-3

Links

To make a link towards another Wiki page → [[Navy:page_link|text]]

This display_text is the best out of them all.

Be careful not to confuse Navy: and Ship: tags in the links. Navy: links are for all Legends pages, while Ship: links are WoWs PC.

To make a link towards a different website → [URL display_text]

Example: As always, remember to read the patch notes.

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Images

To insert an image → [[File:Image_Name.png|(sizeonpage)px|link=]]

Example: [[File:Legends_Repair_Party.png|70px|link=Navy:Consumables#Repair_Party]] will make →

Putting a link is not obligatory. Do not fill the part after the Link= if you don't want to link a page to the image.

To insert an image to the right of the screen with a description below it → [[File:Image_Name.png|thumb|text]]

Example: [[File:Legends_Renown_Icon.png|thumb|Renown, campaign currency]] will make →

Renown, campaign currency

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Bulletpoint Lists

To make lists with little bulletpoints (such as what can be seen in the Section Titles section below) → *text

To make a "sub-list" with these same pins → :*text OR **text

Example:

• First

• Second
  • Third

• Fourth

• May The Fourth...
• ...Be With You...
• ...Always.
  • Fifth

Each : or * that is added moves the sub list a bit further to the right.

Numbered Lists

To make lists with numbers → #text

Example:

1. That's number one
2. This, however, is number two.
3. And that is obviously number three.

AnnoWiki

To add an independent text box in the page → {{AnnoWiki|content=text}}

Example: This text is currently in the type of box we're talking about here.

Breadcrumbs

To make the page link to the Legends main page at the top of the screen → {{#gw_breadcrumbs:WoWS_Legends}}

Always put this section at the very top of the page when editing (look at this page's coding if you're not sure what this means).

Table of Content (TOC) & Section Titles

• Table of Content menus (TOC) are created based on page section titles.
• Force a Table of Contents menu with:__TOC__ This is a wiki Magic Word
• Force No Table of Contents menu with: __NOTOC__ (A page with 4 or more section titles will automatically get a TOC if __NOTOC__ is not defined.
• Position the TOC on the right side of the page: <div style="float:right;">__TOC__</div>

• Section Titles are shown in the TOC as page links:
• =Level 1 "big" Title=
• ==Level 2 "medium" Title==
• ===Level 3 "smaller" Title===
• ====Level 4 "even smaller" Title====

Example:

Level 1 "big" Title

Level 2 "medium" Title

Level 3 "smaller" Title

Level 4 "even smaller" Title

 

To activate the table of content (TOC) → __TOC__

To disable the table of content (TOC) → __NOTOC__

This makes it so that the little box called "Contents" at the top of the page shows or not. Take a look at this page's coding to see where to put it.