Wiki Editing Guide

Official Documentation

MediaWiki Formatting

Naming Conventions

• For pages that would share a common name but are meant to be convention specific add a " - <convention name>" to them.
  • For example: Volunteers Timeline & Volunteers Timeline - Fargo CoreCon OR Previous Guests - Anime Fargo and Previous Guests - Fargo CoreCon

Common formatting

Side note - The Table Of Contents at the top gets created automatically by using headers.

• Also remember that most of the documents here (unless specifically placed in a convention specific category) are for each convention.
• Instead of "Fargo CoreCon" or "Anime Fargo", use "the convention"
• Instead of "accessibility@fargocorecon.org" use "Accessbility".

Header format

• To make a header like the one above here then you should surround the text with 2 ='s signs.
  • Example: "==This is a header=="

Sub Header Format

• Sub headers just add extra ='s on each side.
  • Example: For a sub header to "Common Formatting" you'd just need to add a line below that and put "===Sub Header===".
  • this maxes out at "======" on each side.

List format

• To make items in a bulleted list like this one you use "* " before the text. To indent bullets you can just add more *'s
  • Example: "* This is will be bulleted like the line above" or "** This will be bulleted like this line is"
• To make a numbered list you use "# ". And like the above you simply add more #'s to add intended lines.

Italics

• To italicize text you surround it with two 's on each side.
  • Example (remove space between the ') ' 'Italics' '

Bold

• Bold works like Italics except it's 3 ' instead of 2.
  • Example (remove space between the ') ' ' 'Bold' ' '

Bold & Italics

• This is simply 5 ' on each side. 2 for italic and 3 for bold.
  • Example (remove space between the ') ' ' ' ' 'bold & italic' ' ' ' '

Page Linking

• To link a page you simply do [ [your page title] ] (Remove the space between [ [ and ] ])

Link to a Category Page

• To link to a category simply do [ [:Category:category name| Text to be displayed ] ] (Remove the space between [ [ and ] ])
  • The end result is what you see on the main page under "Staff Information"

Linking between the public and private wiki

• If on the public wiki (like we are now) you can do the following to link to a page on the private wiki [[privatewiki:<Your Page>]]
  • Example: (remove the spaces between [ [ and ] ]) [ [privatewiki:Main Page] ]
    • The above will show "privatewiki:Main Page" when reading.
  • You can also add after <your page> a | and then a better wording for the link. Example [ [privatewiki:<your page>|Link to your page] ].
    • the above will show the text "Link to your page" when reading.
• For linking to categories instead of <your page> you'd do "Category:<your category>".
  • Example: (remove the spaces between [ [ and ] ]) [ [privatewiki:Category:Departments] ]
    • The above will show "privatewiki:Category:Departments" on the reading page.
  • Example using the better wording: [ [privatewiki:Category:Departments|Departments on the private wiki] ]
    • The above will show "Departments on the private wiki"
• If on the private wiki and linking to the public then you'd use "publicwiki" instead of "privatewiki" in the above examples

Categories

• Categories only need to be worried about for new pages.
• The biggest thing for categories is that we want to each page to link to it's department category, and if applicable (IE the department category is a general one, but this page is specific to a convention) the convention the page is specific for.
• Then you ensure the Department Category is linked to either General if it's a category that exists in both conventions or to the Convention that the category is for.

How to declare a category

• To declare a category then you need to use (on it's own separate line - best practice is at the top but can be wherever) [[Category:<your category>]].
  • Categories can have spaces.

Category Requirements

• For department category pages you must use [ [Category:Departments] ] (Remove the space between [ [ and ] ]) as that's for the complete department list, regardless of convention specific or general.
  • See Accessibility Category for an example.