Thread:Antipoison/@comment-5632187-20150407062602

Hiya Antipoison!

I was just reading over your profile and saw you were interested in learning about how editing on a Wiki works. As an Admin, it's part of my job to try to help you in any way I can to grasp the concept of editing.

So, there are many different ways you can contribute to the Wiki. One very popular and simple way is the adding or fixing of links. What this essentially means is that you go to a page, and if you see that there is something that can be linked but isn't, you link it. That is the concept of adding links.

Fixing links is slightly different. When you fix a link, you go to a page that already has a link, but the link may be done improperly, thus causing a red link to appear. These red links are ugly and unwanted, so the less we have, the better. When you see a red link, try to find a page with a similar name and the odds are that is the page that is supposed to be linked.

There are two ways to create a link depending on the mode you edit in. If you edit in Source mode like I do, you would create a link by doing the following: King Vendrick  is a boss in    Dark Souls II   . Which would give you this: King Vendrick is a boss in Dark Souls II. The dual bracket indicates a link, which is closed off by the opposing dual bracket. The double apostrophe around "Dark Souls II" is not a quote, but two apostrophes directly next to each other. This is how you italicize a word in Source mode. The divider you see after "Boss (Dark Souls II)" is how you link to one page, but make the words appear differently. This is usually used in order to exclude a suffix or to change the quantity of something.

Alternatively, you can edit in Visual Mode, which makes your life slightly easier in terms of linking. As opposed to actually typing in the code in order to link, you simply highlight what you want to link, then go up to the top and click on the chain. This will open a screen with two text boxes, one for "Target page" and one for "Text to display". In the Target page box, you would type what you want to link to, and in the Text to display box, you'd type what you want the link to say.

That is the most in-depth I can really get about links, so if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me, I'm always more than happy to help someone get into editing :) 