Difference between revisions of "Help:Contents"

Revision as of 17:05, 26 December 2006

Editing Wikis

• How to edit wiki pages, which covers wikitext markup
• The wikimedia sandbox, a useful site for playing with formatting without creating a new article.
• The Paragon Wiki Test Wiki can also be used to play with formatting wiki articles before adding them to the main wiki.
• Paragon Wiki:Main_Discussion The main discussion page has since been replaced by the forums, but it still contains useful information for editing discussion pages.
• References List of unofficial guidelines worked out for use on Paragon Wiki.

Preloaded data

• Contact Template to use when creating a new article about a contact
• Preloaded Images such as powers icons and such. Before uploading an image, please read.
• Useful Templates can help formatting various articles.
• Mission Templates are templates covering common missions, such as story arcs, zone contact intros (such as David Wincott), and security chief intros. These missions can apply to multiple contacts. They have been templated for easy insertion and to avoid errors in duplication.
• Contact Templates are templates that can be used to duplicate new contact introductions among contacts.

Userpage boxes

• Userboxes are templates that can be placed on your userpage to indicate your interests.

Image Editing

GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program) (wiki). Open source, cross platform. Can do most anything Photoshop can (in the right hands). Make sure you install the GTK+ libraries first.

Paint.NET (wiki) is based off the .NET Framework by Microsoft. Some call it what MSPaint should have been.

Obsolete info

• Store Templates to use so that you don't have to type in the names off all the enhancements a store sells

Older info, may be outdated

• Help:Exploration Badge Template Is this still up to date?