Guide:Main Guide

This is the main guide for editing on Riffipedia. It is currently under construction and more useful tips will be added as time goes on. If you need anything added to the guide, just ask.

Initial Edit

When initially editing an article, it is perfectly fine to add just the text in visual edit mode. But if you do this, please also do the following:

• Go briefly into source edit mode (this can be done by clicking the option with three horizontal bars and selecting Source Editor) and paste in the following code:

{{Stub}}

• Whilst still in source editor, add the following code to the bottom of the page:

[[Category:Stub]]

.

What these two pieces of code do is firstly add the following box

This article is a stub. You can help Riffipedia by expanding it.

and secondly add the page to the stub category, which when visited allows users to see which pages need work.

Source Editor

Source editor is the technical edit mode that allows you to add inbuilt codes to your article. Most of these codes are pretty simple once you know them. Adding coding helps with all manner of things, such as formatting text, adding links, adding features such as tables and so on. Many of these can be done in the standard visual editor, but some can't. Learning to use the little bits of code and add them to an article only helps to make the article look better. Once you get used to using them, they become quite easy to use.

Linking

Internal Linking

To add a link to another article on Riffipedia, wrap the text you wish to link from in double square brackets.

[[ ]]

For example, if I wanted to link the word Kyuss to the Kyuss article, I would input this.

[[Kyuss]]

This now means that Kyuss is linked. However, sometimes, you wish to link text to an article which does not have the title of the selected text. In this case your code would look slightly different.

[[Title of article you want to link to|Text that appears in the article]]

So for instance, if you are writing the Slo Burn article and say something like "Slo Burn released only one EP." You could enter this in source editor:

Slo Burn released only [[Amusing The Amazing|one EP]].

Meaning now the sentence would show up as "Slo Burn released only one EP."

External Linking

If you wish to link to an article outside of Riffipedia, you would use single square brackets.

[ ]

Just insert the link with the brackets at either end.

[http://www.weedian.com/]

It will create an external link such as this [1]. To give your link a title, simply leave a space at the end of your link and then write the desired title of your link before the bracket.

[http://www.weedian.com/ Sleep's Official Website]

This will now give the following. Sleep's Official Website

Simple codes

<br>

This code inserts a line break in your articles.
such
as
this.