Help:Getting started

This is a page for new users to the wiki. It teaches wikitext and lets the user become more comfortable with editing.

Editing / Creating a Page

To edit a page, click the "Edit" tab at the top of the screen (next to "Read" and "View history"). To find a page, type the name of the page into the bar at the top right that says Search Adventures in Odyssey Wiki. Press enter and you will be taken to the first alphabetical result. Click a result from the list to go to that page. Click the containing… box to see a list of relevant pages; select the one you want.

To create a page, type in the page name in the search bar and press enter (provided that no page already exists with that name). The message Create the page "Example" on this wiki! will appear, replacing Example with the page you entered. Click on Example to open the page creation screen. Ignore the big yellow bubble for now.

To preview your edits before saving, click either the "Preview" tab at the top or the "Show preview" button at the bottom. To save, click either the "Publish" button at the top right or the "Save changes" button at the bottom.

Regular Text Formatting / Links

This is text as you'll normally see it in an editing window.
Two lines right next to each other act like they're on the same line.

The brackets around [[Odyssey]] mean that a link is created to the page "Odyssey."

If you want the link to say [[Odyssey|something else]], put that pipe symbol in like so.  The pipe is on the same key as the \ character: press 'Shift.'

You can also link to [[odyssey]] without a pipe if you want the first letter lowercase, and the link will still work.

 Putting a space before a line makes the line look like it's code or markup, but links (like [[Odyssey]]) still work.

Putting lowercase text, not punctuation or a space, directly after a link, like [[Odyssey]]isawesome, will cause the text around it to become part of the link.  The link will still go to the same place had there not been any text around it.

Here's what it all looks like:

This is text as you'll normally see it in an editing window. Two lines right next to each other act like they're on the same line.

The brackets around Odyssey mean that a link is created to the page "Odyssey."

If you want the link to say something else, put that pipe symbol in like so. The pipe is on the same key as the \ character: press 'Shift.'

You can also link to odyssey without a pipe if you want the first letter lowercase, and the link will still work.

Putting a space before a line makes the line look like it's code or markup, but links (like Odyssey) still work.

Putting lowercase text, not punctuation or a space, directly after a link, like Odysseyisawesome, will cause the text around it to become part of the link. The link will still go to the same place had there not been any text around it.

Here's what it all looks like:

Templates / Transcluding

Templates are pages enclosed in curly brackets, like this one: {{Qmarks}}

The page [[Template:Qmarks]] has a pair of quotation marks on it, so when those quotation marks are put on this page, that's called Transcluding.

If the quotation marks on the page [[Template:Qmarks]] were changed, or something was added, the quotation marks on this page would change, too.

Notice the {{{1}}} in the normal view.  That means, when the template was used, an extra parameter could be used, too.  {{{1}}} means that it's the first unnamed parameter, so you use it this way: {{Qmarks|Example}}

Most templates are very complicated, so the wikitext behind them is made into templates to make the pages that use them simpler.  Take this one: [[Template:ep]] {{ep}}

Notice that when [[Template:ep]] (lowercase version of [[Template:Ep]]) is used with no parameters, its result is [[{{{1}}}|“{{{1}}}”]].  This means that a parameter needs to be used, in this case, an episode name.  [[Template:Ep]] gives the episode page a fancy link, with the number automatically put in.

Here's how it works: {{ep|Karen}}

You can have more than one parameter in a template.  {{ep|Karen|Param 2}}

You can also have parameters with names.  {{ep|Karen|num=1,000}}

And here's what it looks like:

Templates are pages enclosed in curly brackets, like this one: “{{{1}}}”

The page Template:Qmarks has a pair of quotation marks on it, so when those quotation marks are put on this page, that's called Transcluding.

If the quotation marks on the page Template:Qmarks were changed, or something was added, the quotation marks on this page would change, too.

Notice the {{{1}}} in the normal view. That means, when the template was used, an extra parameter could be used, too. {{{1}}} means that it's the first unnamed parameter, so you use it this way: “Example”

Most templates are very complicated, so the wikitext behind them is made into templates to make the pages that use them simpler. Take this one: Template:ep [[{{{1}}}|“{{{1}}}”]]

Notice that when Template:ep (lowercase version of Template:Ep) is used with no parameters, its result is [[{{{1}}}|“{{{1}}}”]]. This means that a parameter needs to be used, in this case, an episode name. Template:Ep gives the episode page a fancy link, with the number automatically put in.

Here's how it works: #50: “Karen”

You can have more than one parameter in a template. #50: “Param 2”

You can also have parameters with names. #1,000: “Karen”

And here's what it looks like:

Not-included Text

If you wish to type in something that won't be included in the text of the page, put in the

<noinclude>

template on either side of the text you wish not to include in the page you are editing.