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Welcome to the tutorial. This is a simple guide to editing the Edge of Darkness Wiki.

What is a Wiki?

A Wiki is a website that you can edit. All the pages here can be edited and improved by any visitor.

How do I create an account?

This wiki uses your [Forum account.

What can I do here?

Don't be afraid to edit - anyone can edit almost any page, and we encourage you to have a go! Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, and fix it.

You can't break the Wiki. Anything can be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, find a page and edit.

For more help on how to edit, go to the Editing tab of this tutorial.

Important Note

When referencing official content from one of the Sourcebooks, please reference the material rather than reproducing it. Errata and/or book/page references are appreciated. Do not post the contents of the books themselves. No entry should diminish, even slightly, the necessity of anyone owning the book that is being referenced.

See "edit" tab above? On the TV Wiki, you can edit articles right now, after logging in.

Where can I edit?

You can edit any page where you can see an edit tab. The changes that you make will show on the page as soon as you save.

Pages that start with "User:" are personal pages. It's considered polite to ask before doing major edits to these pages.

Some other editing tips

• Explain your edit in the "Summary" box. This is between the edit window and the bottom row of grey buttons. You only need to type a short message here, for example "added introduction".
• Use the "Show preview" button to check your edit before saving. Remember to save your preview before moving on.
• If you are logged in, you can mark an edit as minor by checking the "This is a minor edit" box. This lets other editors know your edit is very small.

That's all you need to know to start editing. But if you would like to learn more about how to format your text, go to the Formatting tab of this tutorial.

The next step is to format your text.

How do I make a link?

• To make a link, you surround the link word with square brackets [[like this]]

If the page exists, the link will be silver. If it's not been created yet the link will be red.

How do I make italic and bold text?

Single quotes are used for italic and bold text.

• Italics are made with '' two single quotes ''

• Bold is made with ''' three single quotes '''

• Text can be made italic and bold with ''''' five single quotes '''''

How do I make headings?

Headings are made with equals signs.

• A top level heading is made with:

== two equals signs ==

• Subheadings are made with:

=== three or more equals signs ===

See Also

• Formatting Cheatsheet

To learn how to make lists and indents go to the Lists tab of this tutorial.

It's often useful to indent your text, or make lists.

How do I indent text?

• To indent text, you start the line with one or more colons (:)

: This will be indented,
:: This will be indented further,
::: The more colons, the larger the indent.

This will give you:

This will be indented,

This will be indented further,

The more colons, the larger the indent.

How do I make bulleted lists?

Bullets are made in a very similar way. But this time they use asterisks (*). The more asterisks you use, the bigger the indent.

* This gives a bullet,
* If you go onto the next line, the bulleted list continues,
** Just as with colons, the more asterisks, the bigger the indent.

This will give you:

• This gives a bullet
• If you go onto the next line, the bulleted list continues.
  • Just as with colons, the more asterisks, the bigger the indent.

How do I make numbered lists?

Numbers use the number sign or hash symbol (#). If you use more than one hash, you can make sub-lists.

# Numbers work in the same way,
# Go onto the next line to carry on the list,
## Two or more number signs will give you sub-items,
## You can carry on with the sub numbers...
# Or go back to the original list.

This will give you:

1. Numbers work in the same way
2. Go onto the next line to carry on the list
   1. Two or more number signs will give you sub-items
   2. You can cary on with the sub numbers...
3. Or go back to the original list.

To learn how to make links, go to the Links tab of this tutorial.

Links are a vital part of your pages. They are the main way that people will move around the site.

Internal Links

We saw how to make internal links in the Formatting section of this tutorial. But you can also change the appearance of internal links:

To use words other than the article title as the text of the link, you can use a pipe character "|"

For example, if you wanted to make a link to "Vampire: The Requiem", but wanted it to say "VtR" you would write:

[[Vampire: The Requiem|VtR]]

It would show as:

VtR

You can also add extra letters directly outside the double square brackets to change the link text. This is useful for plurals:

For example, you would write:

Try one of our [[quiz]]zes.

It would appear as:

Try one of our quizzes.

How do I link to external sites?

If you want to link to a site outside of Wikia, just type the full URL for the page you want to link to.

http://www.google.com/

It is often better to have the link text show something more useful than the URL. You can do this with single square brackets.

The alternative text goes after the URL, with a space in between (not a pipe this time).

[http://www.google.com/ Google search engine] will look like this: Google search engine

You have now completed the tutorial, and have all the basic knowledge to edit this wiki.

For some ideas on where to go next, see the Where Next? tab of this tutorial.

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