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. The basics are there though. If you need anything added to the guide, just ask.
Editing Modes
There are two types of mode to edit articles on Riffipedia - Visual and Source. Both of which can be accessed through two ways.
- Click the red edit button at the top of the article and you will be taken to visual mode, to get to source mode from this view, click the button at the top with the three horizontal bars and select source editor.
- Click the arrow just to the right of the red edit button and select classic editor from the drop down menu. This will take you to a slightly different view of visual mode, where you can switch between visual and source by clicking a tab towards the top right. I personally recommend this version.
Visual Editor
Visual mode is a basic way to edit. This is useful if you just want to add text or basic features. Code does not work in visual mode.
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 templates, adding links, adding features such as tables and so on. Some of this can be done in visual mode, but in a very basic way. Source mode allows much more customisation of all features. 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.
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 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
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and secondly add the page to the . This lets people know that an article needs more work.
If article is copied from Wikipedia
If the content was copied directly from wikipedia (which is perfectly fine as a starting base for an article) please replace the 'stub' template with the following one:
{{Wikipedia
|article copied from =
}}
Remember to add the link the article was copied from next to the equal sign. This will make the wikipedia logo link to the original article. This is important as it allows fair use of the wikipedia logo and gives credit to the original creator of the content. So if I wanted to add this to the Kyuss article, this is exactly how the code would appear:
{{Wikipedia
|article copied from = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyuss
}}
This gives us the following box.
 The content of this article was copied from Wikipedia. Wikipedia articles are often aimed at more general audiences, whereas Riffipedia is aimed at people already interested in the Stoner Rock scene. You can help Riffipedia by re-purposing this article. |
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These are pre-coded features which you can add to your articles by copying a simple template and filling in the details. These are useful for the boxes which appear at the top right of many articles, quotes, tracklists on album pages and possibly more as we go along. An example of one of these is the Stub box above. These templates can be found here:
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.
Headlines
In order to add headlines, place two equal signs next to the text you wish to make a headline.
==Headline==
In order to add sub-headlines, increase the number of equal signs to three.
===Sub-Headline===
If you need to add sub-sub-headlines, increase it to four. This pattern continues. Once a few headlines/sub-headlines have been added, the content box in the top left will be automatically added.
References/Sources/Citations
In order to add references to an article you will need this code.
<ref> </ref>
To use this, following a part of your article which needs referencing (this can even be mid sentence) add the leftmost part of the reference code. Then type the source of your reference. Then add the right most part of the reference code. For example:
This is a sentence which needs referencing<ref>This is the reference</ref>
After doing this, underneath the bottom most section of your article (but above any navboxes you may have), add the following code under a headline of "References".
<references />
This adds the table for your references at the bottom of the article.
Here is an example of how all of this would look in action:
This is a sentence which needs a reference[1]
The number next to the sentence is the reference number which is automatically created. Clicking it will take you down to the reference table. Similarly, when at the reference table, the arrow at the left edge of every reference takes you to the part of the article where the reference is added.
Additional reference note
Not every fact in this wiki needs to be referenced, but try to do so where possible. It just makes the information look reliable. There is no set formatting to references, just the following guidelines. Try to be detailed with your source if you can. If your source is a book, add the author and page number to the reference as well as the title. If your reference is a website, include the link and, if known, the date the article referenced was created.
Here is the Reference table
- ↑ This is the reference