Help:Contents

This page is a how-to for contributing to the wiki. If you are new to wikis, we invite you to experiment in the Sandbox before editing normal pages. Click the edit link located at the top of the Sandbox page.

See the Community Portal if you want to help us. =)

Courtesy requests

 * 1) Please use the "Show preview" button before saving the page.
 * 2) Please sign all discussion posts with your name - use " -~ " (4 tildes).
 * 3) Read the Manual of Style before making new pages or big changes to an existing page.

Creating a new page
A red link such as Help:Non-existent page indicates that the page does not exist. Clicking on it will bring you to a page where the first version of it can be written and saved.

A second option to create a new page is to type the full name of the page you wish to create into the Search box. This will bring you to a page that says There is currently no text in this page, you can search for this page title in other pages or edit this page. with links to the search page, or the edit page where you can then write and save the page.

Another way to create a new page is to navigate to the URL directly. For example, typing out  http://wiki.cabalwiki.com/wiki/Help:Non-existent page  onto the browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will achieve the same effect as clicking on the red link above.

Creating a subpage
To create a subpage of another page, use any of the 3 options above to create the page with the following naming:   using the forward slash (/) to indicate the separation between the original page, and the subpage.

Text style
Use apostrophes to make text bold or italic. For underlined words, type in ... .

Colored Text
If you want to change the color of the text, write down this code:


 * The colour code is a hex number or word to show the colour.
 * The text message is the message you want to type.

Using this code:

Both the results above is the same colour. The colour code for blue is "#0000FF", starting with the symbol "#" then the code. You may also put words too, but if you want a specific colour, you type in the colour code of that particular colour.

For the list of colours with the colour codes (hex triplet), click here.

Links
Enclose words in double square braces to make a link to an article on this wiki. Separate the link from the caption with a vertical bar ("|"). External links use single square braces and use a space to separate the link from the caption.

Article sections
Enclose text with equal signs to divide an article into sections.

=Main section=

Images
Upload an image using the upload file link found in the main menu.


 * PNG is the preferred file type.
 * Also see Extended image syntax on Wikipedia.

Tables
All table code needs to be the first character on the line.


 * Also see Table Help on Wikipedia.

Lists
All list code needs to be the first character on the line.

Templates
Enclose a template in double curly braces to have it transcluded to the page. Inside the template file (e.g. warning), access parameters with triple curly braces.


 * Also see Template help on Wikipedia.

Redirects
Use redirects to have one article automatically forward the read to another.

Categories
The wiki uses categories to help organize all the pages.

Advanced

 * Magic words, eg:
 * Parser functions, eg:
 * DPL - Dynamic page list, eg:
 * CSS - how to format pages, eg: