User blog:OnlyShots/A Guide For The Starter Wikian and Wikitexter

Guide For The Beginning Wikian and Wikitexter:

How to use basic wikitext:

There are types of shortcuts in wikitext that can help make your text look more fancy or sophisticated.

For example, a colon at the beginning of a sentence will create an indent in the sentence, whereas a semi-colon in the beginning of the sentence will make the rest of the sentence bold, an asterisk will make a bullet list, two ' symbols will make the text it surrounds italic, three ' symbols will make the text it surrounds bold, etc:

In source code:



;Testing, testing (Makes the sentence bold)

*Testing, testing (Creates a bullet list) **Testing, testing

Testing, testing (Note you cannot type these symbols on mobile, but there is a button you can press to automatically generate symbols like these for you to use! There should be an italicized "I" symbol, just press it and it'll generate sample text for you to edit! Generates: Italic text )

Testing, testing (Note you cannot type these symbols on mobile, but there is a button you can press to automatically generate symbols like these for you to use! There should be a "B" symbol, just press it and it'll generate sample text for you to edit! Generates: Bold text )

Testing, testing (Underlines the text)

Testing, testing (Makes the text bigger)

Testing, testing  (Stack them to make text EVEN bigger!)

Testing, testing (Makes the text smaller)

Testing, testing (Stack them to make the text EVEN smaller!)

In wikitext in their respective order:


 * Testing, testing


 * Testing, testing


 * Testing, testing
 * Testing, testing

Testing, testing

Testing, testing

Testing, testing

Testing, testing

Testing, testing

Testing, testing

Testing, testing

There are more shortcuts that can be found here: [//community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Wikitext https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Wikitext]

How to nowiki:

Sometimes, we don't want the text to automatically turn into wikitext. For example, when making faces at the beginning of the sentence, it can create unwanted indents:



With nowiki, you can make it look like this:



Nowiki is a code to force other naturally corresponding text to not register their normal wikitext actions. For example, a semi-colon would stay a semi-colon without making the sentence bold or the colon will not make an indent.

In source code:



In wikitext:



This will work on all code used to generate wikitext.

How to make internal links and hide/collapse text:

In cases, you will want to put links into your text to redirect users or send them something to read/watch. Sounds simple enough, right? Sometimes, you're going to want to insert links into text to make your replies look much cleaner.

In source code:

[Your link here(space)Title] is the link. (When you type it out in source code, the "(space)" just means a normal space between words)

In wikitext:

This is the link. (The link leads to the community central wiki)

In cases where you have typed a really long message and it takes up a lot of space and scrolling to get through, you might want to consider hiding/collapsing your text.

In source code:

In wikitext:

See? Pretty neat and dandy!

Will be adding on with time.