Tutorial
Welcome to the Chess Rock Community Wiki Tutorial!
If you are looking to help us document the history or stuff about the Chess Rock Community, but have zero experience on making Wikis, then this is the place for you!
It won't be a comprehensive walkthrough but it'll help you enough where you'll understand the basics of how to make your own page.
Creating an account
To create a page, you don't need an account; but if you don't want to get your IP leaked or want to edit a currently existing page then you will need to create an account.
- In the top right corner of the website, you should see a user icon and the "Anonymous" text. If you don't see the Anonymous text, that means you are logged in and can skip the entirety of this step. Click on it and you'll see options for "Create account" and "Log in".
- When you click "Create account", you should be brought to a section for you to create an account. Please enter your details carefully and correctly, or else you won't be able to recover your account.
- After you click "Create your account", everything should be done!
Page Creation
Creating a page
To create a page, there are two possible methods.
- On the left, you should see many options in the Navigation section. Click on "Create new page" to create a new page.
- In the search bar, you can simply delete everything until "https://crc.artyom.me/" then your page name.
The first method will automatically put you into edit mode, while the second method needs you to click the "Create" or "Create source" button.
Visual Editing vs Source Editing
There are two main methods of editing a page: Visual Editing and Source Editing
| Categories | Visual Editing | Source Editing |
|---|---|---|
| Explanation | Visual editing allows you to edit the page and immediately preview how it is going to look; but it doesn't allow you edit things as neatly and tightly as source editing. | Source editing is much like HTML code, where you write it everything and only preview it later. It allows you to be way more precise and allows for more features visual doesn't include but it is much less intuitive. |
For the purposes of this tutorial, we will be using Visual Editing, but if you want to do things more precisely like be able to center text using <center></center> and you will like you are advanced enough, then you can use Source Editing.
Tool bar
On Visual Editing mode, above your writing area should contain a tool bar containing all the tools for you to use and create your page. Some are self-explanatory like the undo and redo buttons, but others can be troubling to understand.
Headings
On all articles longer than a paragraph, they are split using headings. Each section should be denoted with a heading of their own and any sub-section should be denoted with a sub-heading of their own. Headings are useful because on pages with more than one heading or sub-heading, the page automatically creates a table of contents for people to easily explore the page.
To format text into a Heading, click on the section that says "Paragraph" or "Heading" next to the undo and redo buttons and select "Heading". That should turn the line you are writing on into a Heading of a section. When you press enter, it should automatically return to a Paragraph format.
You can use the Sub-headings without having to use the main Heading format, but it will look significantly uglier.
Refrain from using the page title as it's rarely ever necessary. The title in the page is usually enough.
Links
You can link from one page to another or another website using the links feature, making it easy for those who want to learn more about or explore a particular topic to just go there. To create a link:
- Select a section of text you want to turn into a link
- Press the Link button (denoted by a symbol of two chains linked together)
- Select the page you want to link to (it does not have to be the same as the selected text)
Do note that when you are linking to another page on the Chess Rock Community Wiki, if the page shows up as red, it means the page has not been made yet and the link is basically useless. However, it is still fine to do so because the pages may be made in the future.
Uploading an image/file
Uploading an image isn't as easy as dragging and clicking an image into the page. We need to add it as a file first before we can properly use it in a page. There are two main methods of uploading an image to the Wiki.
Special:Upload
On the left, in the same region as "Create new page", just below it is "Upload file" where it sends you to a page to upload a file.
Just do as instructed, make sure to enable "Watch this file", and your file should be uploaded.
If there are issues uploading the file, it either is server related or your file has something wrong with it.
After that, next to the Bullet Points option is an Insert option for you to insert one from a few selections. Go to "Images and media", and select your image in Recent. Then do as you're told and you should be finished.
Beware that adding a caption and alternative text is super useful, so please add it even if you, yourself, don't find it personally useful.
Insert > Images and media
On the toolbar, next to the Bullet Points option is an Insert option for you to insert one from a few selections. The one we're interested in here is "Images and media". Click on it, and if you haven't uploaded your image yet, go to the Upload tab and then do as you're instructed. Beware that you have to tick "This is my own work" to progress.
After your image is uploaded, you will be given an option to immediately upload it into the page you're in, making it more convenient than the "Special:Upload" method if you are only doing it once.
Beware that adding a caption and alternative text is super useful, so please add it even if you, yourself, don't find it personally useful.
More options
On the tool bar, there is an option with 3 bars that allows you to see more options that we are interested in, specifically categories and redirection.
Categories
On this Wiki, every page should be categorized based on their type of article, as seen on the main page. Our categories include "Users", "Memes", "History", "Discord", "Miscellaneous" and "Instructions". Categories are nice because they allow for ease of navigation.
When you are done with your page, click the three bars on the tool bar, click on Options or Categories, and then under "Add a category to this page", add a category the page fits in. You can make your own category using this method, but it's preferred you use our six pre-existing categories.
Redirect
If you have a particular thing that has different names or nicknames to refer to one thing, instead of copy pasting everything for each page, you should redirect it to one main page instead. Which page you choose to be the main page is up to you. Redirects are useful because it allows for people who may not be familiar with the full name or nickname or want to easily access the page using the nickname can all go to the same page without trouble.
If you are going to turn a page into a redirect, it is preferred you leave it blank, because the page will redirect you to another page anyway. You could still write text into it for fun, though.
On the redirect page, click the three bars on the tool bar, click on Page settings (or Options then go to Page Settings), tick "Redirect this page to", then type the page you want to redirect to. If the page you're redirecting does not exist, then that is okay, as long as that page will exist in the future.
Page formatting
In the beginning of each page, for the sake of consistency, it is preferred you start it like this.
[Title] (pseudonyms) short description or summary
The [Title] should always be bold, no matter what, and the (pseudonyms) should be in italic.
From there, do whatever you want.
