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bristle-krs · Last edited by bristle-krs on Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

i'll try and collect together all the useful stuff here.

first up:

film reviews

to keep things tidy, please try and keep to this basic format.

1. create a wiki page for the whole film, rather than just your review of it

2. then you can insert your review in the 'tcte reviews' section, and anyone else can add there review in the same section, and it will all be together and neat and tidy!

3. please remember to use the 'spoiler' template before describing anything other than the briefest details about the film.

4. when you link to the original review on tcte, please link to the POST not just the THREAD - the link you need is accessed by clicking the little white sheet of paper icon to the top left of the post - 'copy link location' or equivalent will grab it for you

suggested format code:

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:41 am Post subject:

how to create an entry

1. check there's not already a page for it - type the name (spell it correctly!) in the search box, click 'go' (or 'search' to see if the term crops up anywhere else, in case there's a differently-titled page on essentially the same thing you want to write about)

2. if there's nothing there yet, it'll return a page that says:

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:50 am Post subject:

wiki formatting

when you create a page, it automatically puts the page title in what it calls 'level 1' headline.

this is bolded, and bigger than everything else.

everything else under the title is ordered by, in the first instance, 'level 2' headlines.

if, within a level 2 section you need to sub-divide it, you bring in 'level 3' headings, then 'level 4'.

each 'level' of heading is bolded, but smaller than the last.

to create different levels of headings, simply put type out the corresponding number of equals signs either side of the title of the heading

eg

level 2 heading for a section called 'Ninjaboy had his knockers'

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:55 am Post subject:

bullet points

bullet points help make lists look neater.

for simple, unordered, bulletpointed lists, just stick an asterisk and a space before each line:

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:02 am Post subject:

categories

'categories' mean we can collect together links to pages which are similar on a single page.

for instance, there is a category page for podcasts, which collects together links to lots of different pages relating to podcasts.

this is done by notionally creating a page called

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:18 am Post subject:

templates

templates are bits of pages which we can insert across several other pages, yet retain control of its text. templates can be for pretty much anything and look like anything - some, like the disambiguation and spoiler ones i've protected, so only sysops can edit them, but all the others are editable.

in other words, if we want to stick in the same bit of text in twenty different wiki pages, but were fretting because that text was likely to need updating quite regularly - meaning we'd have to edit 20 pages at a time to keep it all up to date - then we use a template.

templates can be edited just as easily as any other page, it's just they are, well, different.

i've used templates to bring together a lot of information about tcre podcast network - whilst there's a wiki page called 'TCRE Podcast Network', which explains all about CoolestRadio, i've also created a template called, uh, you guessed it, 'Template:TCRE Podcast Network'. i've then dropped this into the pages of each podcaster, each podcast, and each show, allowing more interconnectability but with minimal effort required, because any updating only needs to be done on one page - the template page.

more ambitiously, i have also created 'Template:WoBcast', which reinforces the main 'WoBcast' wiki page by detailing the people involved and the shows they've casted. this means that instead of creating one really big page for wobcast, and then adding copious amounts of detail as they produce new shows, there is one general purpose wobcast page, then a page for each of their actual shows - and all of them navigable through the template.

to create a template, you just go through the same sort of naming convention as outlined for categories above:

bristle-krs · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 6:37 am Post subject:

redirects

redirects automatically redirect you to one page from another.

funny that...

so...

if you go to the page called 'Kid Hideous', it automatically redirects to 'Ninjaboy'

if you go to the page called 'Tcre podcast network', it automatically redirects to 'TCRE Podcast Network'.

this is useful because:

1. wiki automatically capitalises the first letter, whether it's meant to be upper or lower case, but it's case sensitive for everything following - so unless someone searching for a page correctly capitalises where appropriate, they might not get to the page they want (see TCRE Podcast Network above)

2. you can create redirects from dead pages which have incorrectly spelled/punctuated titles to the real page

3. you can channel searches for multiple identitied subjects/people through to one or a small number of pages, rather than creating proper pages for each individual one (eg Kid Hideous/Ninjadmin/Treefarmer/Ninjaboy/War Kriminals etc)

to do a redirect, create a page and just add:

wraeth · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:41 am Post subject:

*stunned*

One of the coolest things I found here was that bit of info about how to isolate a post from a thread on PHP

bristle-krs · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject:

'templates' entry updated

wraeth · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: