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!

Using Templates

If you want to read more on templates you can here. Templates are standard wiki pages whose content is designed to be transcluded (embedded) inside other pages. What does that mean? Templates are inserted on a page and allow the template to create things that look the same very easily. Additionally editing the template 'source code' will edit all of the pages that template is used for. They are kind of tricky but also have their pros and are going to be used for very repetitious things i.e. crafting recipes, traits, items etc.

Here is what a template looks like at it's source.

Here is a snippet of the source code.

This looks confusing, and it is. All you really need to understand is some of these parameters that the template includes, such as rank, description, stats, and requires. When we copy and past the template, we will input these parameters and everything will look nice.

Let's go back to Sturdy Traps from before and use the Trait template to make the Trait.

1. Let's go to the Help Contribute to the Wiki! link that's on the main page.
2. After that, click on the Trait link.

That will bring us to here.

Copy and paste the template parameters that we are going to pass in.

Once on the page you want, select the first line or put your cursor on the first line and simply Ctrl+V to paste.

That will give us a blank template.

Double click anywhere on that black box and we can start inputting some parameters.