P.MysteryUniverse Wiki:The How-to Guide to This Wiki!

Whether you are a seasoned Wikia user or a new user, there are always things to learn! This is meant to be a reference guide for users looking to edit this Wikia while keeping it looking professional and the best that it can be.

For more in-depth guides, you can find articles on the official website here. There is an article here  to help you get started.

Word Alterations
The first feature to know is the toolbox available in editing mode. In order to edit your text, highlight what it is you want to edit and follow the appropriate steps below:

Bold
 * The B on the far left makes the words thicker and darker:


 * Bold Makes the World go Round.

Bold Makes the World go Round.

Italic
 * The i makes words thinner and slanted:


 * Italic makes good bread.

Italic makes good bread.

Linking
 * The chain-link symbol directly to the right of the italic symbol allows you to link to other pages. There are two boxes in the link manager. The top box is for the name of the Wiki page for internal (PMU Wikia) links, and for the URL of the webpage for external (other site) links. Internal links only require you to type in the name of the page, while external links require the full URL.


 * The bottom box is the linked text that will be displayed to viewers. This will be automatically filled in if you have highlighted the text you want to link.


 * Linking text will cause it to change color. Good links will show up in blue, and broken links will turn red:


 * Quests - Good Link


 * Questz - Bad Link

Bullets
 * The next two buttons on the toolbar create bullet points and numbered lists, respectively:

By pressing enter (shown here as "|"), you will create a new bullet or number. For example, when using bullets, "There are many Pokémon in PMU, such as |Smeargle, |Bagon, |and Drifloon!" will become: And using a numbered list will result in the following: The last two buttons are used for indentation. They can be used with bullets to make the list look less cluttered. The first indent button sends your text to the right. By highlighting "Smeargle, Bagon, and Drifloon!" the above example would become:
 * There are many Pokémon in PMU, such as Smeargle, Bagon, and Drifloon!
 * 1) There are many Pokémon in PMU, such as Smeargle, Bagon, and Drifloon!
 * There are many Pokémon in PMU, such as
 * Smeargle,
 * Bagon,
 * and Drifloon!
 * 1) There are many Pokémon in PMU, such as
 * 2) Smeargle,
 * 3) Bagon,
 * 4) and Drifloon!
 * There are many Pokémon in PMU, such as

Using numbers would result in this:
 * Smeargle,
 * Bagon,
 * and Drifloon!
 * 1) There are many Pokémon in PMU, such as

The second indent button is used for reversing indents and sending the text back to the left margin. For example:
 * 1) Smeargle,
 * 2) Bagon,
 * 3) and Drifloon!
 * There are many Pokémon in PMU, such as


 * Smeargle,
 * Bagon,
 * and Drifloon!

Formatting
The formatting options are found in the middle of the toolbar under the drop-down menu. Clicking on this will give you a selection of formattings to choose from, including headings and code. Normal text looks like this. Headings appear as the following: Code / preformatted text looks like this.
 * 1) ====Heading 2====
 * 2) ======Heading 3======
 * 3) ========Heading 4========
 * 4) ==========Heading 5==========

Alignment
After the headings sit the text alignment buttons. The first is left-alignment, which aligns your text with the left margin of the page, the second is centering, which centers your text to the middle, and the third is right-alignment, which causes your text to align with the right margin. The alignments appear as follows:

On the left...

Centered...

...And on the right!

Undo/Redo
Mistakes are common in Wikia editing. If you ever make a mistake that you cannot figure out how to fix, hit the undo button. It looks like a sideways U with the ends facing left. Clicking it once undoes the last thing you did clicking it again undoes the edit before that. The one right next to it is the redo button, and this will redo anything you have undone.

More+
At the very right of the toolbar there's an drop-down menu called "more" with a + under it. When clicked this will show three more options:
 * Underline, directly below B, which looks like this.
 * Strike-Through, directly below i, which looks like this.
 * Adding a Signature, which is covered below.

Signature
This is used on pages or comments to show who made it. A signature does just and by adding the following: This is commonly used in talk pages and is often mandatory to keep the discussions from getting confusing. A keyboard shortcut for this is to type four tildes (~):
 * The user who wrote it
 * A timestamp
 * A link to the user's profile

Quol (talk) 22:23, November 28, 2012 (UTC)



Inserting Media
This next part of the editing is about using the side toolbox. This explanation will go from Top-Left to Bottom-Right.

Edit Summary
Here you can write a summary of what you have done. It's optional, but it helps others see what has been done on a page.

Minor Edit
This is a single box that you are able to click. This puts the edit that you have had into the minor edit category.

Preview
Using this you can see what the page will look like at its final stage. There is also the option of showing the changes.

Publish
This is the green/blue button that will save the changes permanently.


 * Note: To revert a publish back to what it was before the edit, you have to go to the page itself, click on the arrow next to the "Edit" button near the page name, and click History. From here, you can see every single edit that have been done to this page since the day it was created and you can even compare two selected versions of it. To undo a publish, you simply click the "undo" button to the right of the edit you wish to delete.

Media
In this there are 6 different ways to insert media such as photos and videos into the Wikia.

Photo
The first way is the simplest- adding a photo. When you select this you can choose to either upload a photo from your computer or to use a photo that is currently in the Wikia system. There are two choices: If you select Thumbnail you will be able to reduce the size of the picture, however if you choose fullsize you will not be able to adjust the size.
 * Thumbnail
 * Fullsize

You will then be able to choose whether you want to put the picture to the right of the page or the left of the page as well as a caption. The image appears wherever the cursor is.

Gallery
This creates an area for 2 or more photos to be placed side by side in one of four choices, as seen below.

Slideshow
This allows you to add 2 or more photos into a single panel in the form of a small slideshow with arrows on the sides to progress through the slides. Try it out!

Word Alterations
In Source, you'll see the toolbox that is in the picture above when you first enter this mode. From left to right, the tools in this picture will be explained along with their functions. For these, highlight the selected area and follow the instructions below.

Bold
 * Instead of visually seeing the bold, you'll instead get three apostrophes ( ''' ) surrounding the text "Bold text". Change that phrase to the words you want bolded, and it will appear once you preview it or go back to Visual Mode.

Bold Makes the World go Round.

Bold Makes the World go Round.

Italic
 * Like before, you will have apostrophes surrounding a block of text. But instead of having three, you only have "two" apostrophes ( '' ) surrounding the text "Italic text".

Italic makes good bread.

Italic makes good bread.

Link Formats
In Source Mode, the Linking that you find in Visual are separated.

Internal Link
 * For Internal Linking, when you click on it, it will surround "Link title" in two pairs of brackets . Sadly enough, you won't be able to know if the link is good or bad until you preview it or go into Visual Mode. Hence why "Linking" in Visual Mode is a bit more easy to use.

Quests Questz
 * Quests - Good Link
 * Questz - Bad Link

External Link
 * Like previously mentioned, the Linking that you find in Visual are separated in Source Mode. For External Linking, when you click it, it will surround "http://www.example.com" and "link title" with a single pair of brackets ( [ ] ). Be warned that the link alone can work by itself without a word or phrase to direct you.

PMU Home

PMU Home

Level 2 Headline
When you select this, you'll find the phrase "Headline text" surrounded with two pairs of equal signs. ( == == ) You can remove or add on to the equal signs to increase or decrease the headers; from Header 1 to Header 5.

==Example of a Header 2 Setting==

Embedded File
This is an interesting source code. It's the same as the internal link double brackets, but it has "File:Example.jpg" inside of it. Here, you can put the title of one of the files uploaded onto the PMU Wikia. You'll have to select preview or go into Visual to see your work, though. If you wish to make it easier, use the "Add features and media" on the right side and select "Photo" to select a file. If you start typing a file name, it will give you a selection of files.





File Link
Another one of those interesting source codes that use the double brackets. It uses "Media:Example.ogg" instead of "File:Example.jpg". As like the previous, you put the title of one of the files uploaded onto the PMU Wiki. You'll have to select preview or go into Visual to see your work, though. If you wish to make it easier, use the "Add features and media". As before, you can start typing a file name and it will give you a selection of files.

[[Media:WeHaveNoMedia.ogg]]

Mathematical Formula (LaTeX)
This code makes what appears inside of it to have a picture format. It includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. $$Insert formula here$$

$$Insert formula here$$

Ignore Wiki Formatting
This command is actually extremely strange. It makes the format of your Wikia formatting ignored, meaning you can show off the commands used like in tutorials like these.

Insert non-formatted text here

Your Signature with TimeStamp
When pushing this, you'll find that your signature and the time and date will be given. The style is two hyphens followed four tildes ( --~ ). This will put your signature with a hyphen in front.

Courtesy of --~.

Courtesy of --Shadow Lucario (talk) 09:45, July 23, 2013 (UTC).

Horizontal Line
This will just give you four hyphens. For pages, it will have a straight horizontal line.

Photo Options
Add Photo
 * This works just like the "Photo" in "Add features and media". When you select this you can choose to either upload a photo from your computer or to use a photo that is currently in the Wikia system. There are two choices:

If you select Thumbnail you will be able to reduce the size of the picture, however if you choose fullsize you will not be able to adjust the size.
 * Thumbnail
 * Fullsize

You will then be able to choose whether you want to put the picture to the right of the page or the left of the page as well as a caption.


 * Add a Slideshow or Gallery

This works for "Gallery", "Slideshow", and "Slider" in "Add Features and Media". You have three options; Create Slideshow, Create Gallery, or Create Slider.


 * vet-imagebutton

Unknown of what it does. Will be expanded later.

More +
In this, it will give you the option to select many of the Wikitext shortcuts that can help add to a page. It gives you both many symbols as well as commands to use. More information will be added later about each of these individual commands.