Thank you for contributing to Puchu.Net. This page will provide some simple help regarding how to edit articles for MediaWiki. You can use this sandbox document to test/practice editing.

Start a New Paragraph

You can simply type, and MediaWiki will add <p> tags to each line. To start a new paragraph, insert a blank line and start typing on a new line:

 blah blah blah... (paragraph 1)

 blah blah blah... (paragraph 2)

And MediaWiki will render:

Internal Links

To refer to a document on Puchu.Net, use the following syntax:

 [[link to document|text to display]]

For example, I want to point to the Sandbox document and display the link as playground, I'd type:

 This is your [[Sandbox|playground]] where you
 can experiment with editing documents.

and this is displayed for the code above:

External Links

To refer to a document at a specific URL, use the following syntax:

 [<URL to document> text to display]

For example, I want to point to the http://puchu.net/doc/Sandbox document and display the link as your personal playground, I'd type:

 This is your [http://puchu.net/doc/Sandbox your personal playground] where you
 can experiment with editing documents.

and this is displayed for the code above:

Lists

You can make multi-level list by using * prefixing each list:

* Item 1
* Item 2
** Item 2.1
** Item 2.2
*** Item 2.2.1

This is how it looks:

Or, by using # you can create a numbered list:

# Item 1
# Item 2
## Item 2.1
## Item 2.2
### Item 2.2.1

This is how it looks:

Images

Tables

Here is a simple two-column table with a CSS class already applied:

{| class="InfoTable"
|-
! Developer
| [http://www.arena.net/ Arena.Net]
|-
! Web site
| [http://www.guildwars.com/ http://www.guildwars.com]
|-
! Platform
| Microsoft Windows.  Game runs on a wide range of graphics hardware, 
with impressive visual effects on common hardware.  Storage requirement
increases over time, as new content is streamed to your computer.
|-
! Cost 
| $49.99 per chapter in the United States.  You can also download client 
from official web site, and purchase the game chapters online.  In Asian
countries it is also possible to pay by the time you spend playing.
|-
! [http://www.esrb.org/ ESRB] Rating
| TEEN.  With suggestive themes, use of alcohol, and violence.
|}

And this is what it looks like:

You can make your own tables, and it follows HTML rules:

• {| is the same as <table> tag. You'd use |} for </table> tag.
• |- represent the <tr> tag, there is no need to close it.
• | is the <td> tag.
• ! is the <th> tag.

For each of the rows, if you add class="r0" or class="r1" you can change the background colors. For example the wiki code:

{| class="InfoTable"
|- class="r0"
||row 0
|- class="r1"
||row 1
|- class="r0"
||row 2
|}

gives you:

Please see document Game Developer for an example of this style class in use.

For more details, please see MediaWiki help on table.

Foreign Language Support

Inserting characters from many foreign languages is fully supported. You can help your readers by identifying what kind of font they need, by including a notice as instructed in this page, Foreign Language Support.