Help:Editing

There is little point in writing an extensive help for editing, so we recommend you look at Wikipedia's editing help or the Mediawiki editing help instead.

Be aware that there are style differences between Wikipedia and Stars!wiki. Read Stars!wiki:Policies if you haven't already. Below are some things that particularly apply to Stars!wiki.

Parser Functions
Parser functions are predefined templates or magic words that can be used to make pages dynamically change, or simply to reduce the numbers of edits needed to keep multiple parts of the wiki up-to-date. The following extensions that provide parser functions are installed: Parser Functions, Simple Forms, Parser Functions Helper, User Functions, Cite & IM Status.

Collapsible Tables
Collapsible tables provide a way to collapse and uncollapse a table when a show/hide button is clicked. More details on how to use them can be found here A simple example: produces:

ToolTips
The ToolTip extension in installed and has the following syntax:
 * tooltip text

where the x= and y= parameters are optional. For example:
 * tooltip text

produces: tooltip text

You can also transclude other pages(eg Templates) into the Tooltip eg:. Note that the transcluded content must use &lt;br&gt; to effect new paragraphs rather than two CRLF(aka pressing enter twice). Or you can go all out and 

ImageMap
The ImageMap extension is installed (eg). The ImageMap Editor makes it easy

Useful Templates
Remember you can use any article as a template by prefixing the title with : eg

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Smilies
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For tagging articles
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For tagging list items

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 * [[Image:Icon idea.gif]]

* link
 * (For creating bulleted lists in tooltips)
 * (For creating bulleted lists in tooltips)

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 * See Category:Smilies
 * valign=top| link also adds article to Category:FAQ

link adds article to Category:Guts

link adds article to Category:Stars! Player's Guide

link More details
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link adds article to Category:Incomplete

(or just ) link also adds article to Category:Incomplete

link also adds article to Category:Pages that need data values


 * valign=top| link

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 * colspan=100%|
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Menus
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link also inserts a right-side TOC

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Transcluded content
These appears on the main page.
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link This should appear on all older SHE articles

link This should appear on all of the readme*.txt articles copied from the various Stars! patches.


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Misc
Templates for ideas that never worked and/or were never finished:

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