How to edit the Wiki: A Brief Tutorial

So you are curious about editing the Echoes Wiki? You've come to the right place. It's very easy to make a page and type some information, but things get a little bit trickier when we start to deal with Templates and Images. Let's not jump into that right now, however, and first go over the 'easy stuff'.

Visual Editing vs. Source Editing

The Wiki has two ways to work, and unless you're very comfortable and or have previous experience I would stick to the Visual editing whenever possible. On the right hand sight of the page you'll have a pencil with a drop down, and you can select the editing version that you like.

Source Editing doesn't look too bad if it's just text based, however, it's still generally easier to just use Visual Editing. If working with something more complex it can get messy very quickly.

Not too bad	Getting Worse

Other than that, the Visual Editor is fairly straight forward. Now that we have an idea of how to get text in there, let's create a page.

Creating a New Page/Making a Link

The Wiki is missing something and you have some great information. Sweat beads on your forehead in anticipation of adding to the Echoes Wiki. But what is the best way to make a new page?

There are a couple of ways to make a new page. For example, if you type something in the search bar and it doesn't exist, it will give you the option to create it as a page.

That's a perfectly fine way to make a page, however, it's not going to be linked anywhere. We typically are going to be creating a page from text that is already on a page, and then expanding the Wiki. Let's find somewhere that we can currently do that.

Here we have the Hunter Deeds, which can use some work. We're going to create a link, or create a page for Sturdy Traps, but you might see a problem. Saturday Traps is the name for both the Deed AND the class trait. This will vary a little bit depending on what user made the edit, but we need to differentiate these. Firstly, because two pages can't exist with the same name, but secondly because it's really confusing as a user.

Let's do something like this.

We are going to remove the hyperlink. We could Edit, however, then we would need to both change the text for the link AND change the text that appears on the page. The page that a link goes to does not have to be the same wording, so any linked word on a page can link to any page. It's simply quicker for me to unlink it than change the text for both.

Next up we're going to actually make some links. Since we want to differentiate, we are going to have the pages be called Sturdy Traps (Deed) and Sturdy Traps (Trait). This will allow the two pages to exist and allow the user to easily see what they have at a glance.

1. Highlight the text you want to link	2. Hit the link button or Ctrl+k	3. The text auto-populates. We are using an Echoes link. Hit Done!

Save the page if you are please with your handiwork. We will now have some red text which means the link exists, but the page doesn't. Click on the red link -> Create and we're ready for the next step!