And thus, Hawk was proclaimed nub.

[Hawk]

Yus, I am nub. For I can't even get a picture onto the Wiki for the life of me despite at least 6 attempts.

If anyone could tell me how, I'd be quite grateful, as I'm workin' on a lil something.

[Piroska]

I can help ya, hon.

Shows an image:

Code:

[[Image:image-name.whatever]]

Shows an image with alt information (examples):

Code:

[[Image:image-name.whatever|Write here!]]

Shows an image that is a thumbnail with caption (example):

Code:

[[Image:image-name.whatever|thumb|Write here!]]

Also, I just created a template for your zone facts. If you want it. I'm trying to make multiple pages easier to access by providing the natural progression of links and also a lot of cross-linking. A lot.


Edit: If the issue is uploading an image, go here to upload. The name is whatever you want to make it and will be what you use in the above codes.

[Hawk]

Success! Thankyou kindly, Piroska.

And I'll probably use that template as it's far flashier than what I was gonna do. XD

EDIT: As uh... soon as I can figure out how. I know little to nothing when it comes to Wiki formatting.

[Piroska]

To get a template on the site, you use:

Code:

{{Template:Name}}

In this case, we want:

Code:

{{Template:Zones}}

If you shove that code at the bottom of your articles (preferably just above where you'd place the categories), it'll appear for you.

The nice thing about templates is that you can really make them simple and customizable. I can create a template that allows you to enter various tags (race, gender, age, whatever) and they can spit out results in a format that we want. I haven't placed any of these on the wiki yet because, to date, not a lot of people are using the wiki as anything other than a resource. However, it might be fun to create a character template that displays pertinent information (similar to WoWWiki's NPCbox template).

With something like that, we could have a universal format for basic profiles (unless people edit their profiles in their own way, like I tend to. Teehee) which is more visually appealing. Also, since we could provide links to other articles within those templates (for example, to the appropriate class and race categories), we'd remove a lot of the dead-end articles that we currently have on the site -- of which we have over 1,500 and most of which are profiles! That is 1,533 articles that currently don't link to anything at all.

I've been loathe to implement something like that since it would be pretty intensive and also would be a pretty significant overhaul of existing profiles. I've placed the idea on the back burner until I have the opportunity to see how Kretol reacts to the idea. For the time being, I'm just busying myself by tweaking and inter-linking multiple informational articles on the wiki.