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Attn: New Wiki Editors. Please read this page carefully.

• Before editng pages, look over the make a Wiki page so you understand the wiki's syntax, and as always, for KoL specific items, adventures, monsters, etc., look over the Established Standards and its accompanying discussion.
• When editing pages always fill in the "Summary" textbox saying what you did, it makes it easier for others to understand and navigate through a pages history.
• When editing a page, always use the button to preview the page before saving. That way, you have a second chance to look for and fix problems in the page before saving it. This is much better than saving a page multiple times for a few trivial edits in a short period of time.
• Always sign your comments when posting in talk pages.
• Mark a page for deletion, or for discussion about being deleted in VKoL:Pages for deletion.
• Please post in/start a discussion somewhere before initiating large scale changes on your own.
• Never end a page name with a period!
• Feel free to test things out in the Sandbox or in your User: page.

Creating a Player Page

• Either create a new page by following a link to the uncreated player page, or manually go to http://www.thekolwiki.net/wiki/PLAYER_NAME, where PLAYER_NAME is the KoL player name with underscores replacing spaces.
• Edit the page from the edit tab, adding whatever content you so desire. Don't forget to save the page.

Adding a Player Page to the List of KoL Players

• Use following category [[Category:Player]] to add a player page to the player category which lists KoL players.
• Note: Do NOT add [[Category:Player]] to a wiki user page, such as User:PLAYER_NAME. It will list the page User:PLAYER_NAME under U in the kol player category, and that is very undesirable and leads to having a seasoned wiki editor grudgingly come and fix it for you. What you can do is to forward your User:PLAYER_NAME page to the PLAYER_NAME Kol character page. See the next section for details. Don't forget to save the page.

Forwarding a Wiki User Page to a KoL Player Page

• First, create a KoL player page using the above section.
• Now, open and edit you wiki user page, User:PLAYER_NAME, to redirect all traffic from coming to this User page to you player page, empty all text in the page and add only the text #REDIRECT [[PLAYER NAME]], where PLAYER NAME is the KoL player page. Spaces are allowed: All spaces between the brackets will be read as underscores. Wiki page names do not have spaces in them. Now only one profile page has to be kept up to date. Don't forget to save the page.

Forwarding Player Page Discussion to a Wiki User Page Discussion

• You may want to forward the player talk: page to the User talk: page. Talk is a fancy way of leaving comments about a page (in this case player), or having a related discussion. You can view or add to a pages discussion by clicking on the "Discussion" tab next to a pages "Edit" tab. Wiki users are notified by the wiki when new talk shows up on their User talk: page, so it would just make sense to have the KoL Player page talk redirected there. To forward all new KoL Player talk to the wiki User Talk: page, open and edit the kol player talk page, Talk:PLAYER_NAME, and add only the text #REDIRECT [[User talk:PLAYER NAME]], where PLAYER NAME is the wiki user name. Now there will be only one talk page for PLAYER_NAME/User:PLAYER NAME, and the wiki user will be notfied of new discussion added. Don't forget to save the page.

Adding a Player Page to a Clan

• Use the following template {{clan|clan=CLAN NAME}}, where CLAN NAME is the name of a clan, spaces are allowed. After you save the page, you can follow the created wiki link to the clan's page, which you can then view, edit, or create if it does not yet exist.

Creating a Clan Page

• Either create a new page by following a link to the uncreated clan page, or manually go to http://www.thekolwiki.net/wiki/CLAN_NAME, where CLAN_NAME is the KoL clan name with underscores replacing spaces.
• Edit the page from the edit tab, adding whatever content you so desire.
• To add the clan to the categorical list of all clan, add [[Category:Clans]] to the end of the page. If the clan starts with a "a" or "the", you may want to add a sort term to the clan. Defaultly, when page is added to a category, it is sorted by the page name, but if the clan starts with "the", the clan probably should not be listed under T for "the". To change where the clan is listed under the category add the following [[Category:Clans|SORT BY]] where SORT BY is what the clan will be listed under. For example, [[Category:Clans|Kingdom of Loathing, The]] on a page named "The Kingdom of Loathing" would list "The Kingdom of Loathing" on the clan page under "K", instead of "T". It does not change the name displayed, only how the list is sorted. As always, Don't forget to save the page.

How to Post in Discussions/Talk Pages

• When viewing a particular wiki page, if you would like to view the Talk for that page, click on that page's "Discussion" tab.
• It is customary to use bullets (* in wiki syntax) and indents (: in wiki syntax) to post in/under an ongoing discussion.
• Always sign your posts. The second last button on the edit toolbar will automatically add "Your signature with timestamp". It looks like this http://thekolwiki.net/w/skins/common/images/button_sig.png. It will add the following: --~~~~, which after the page is saved will become --WIKIUSERNAME TIME, DATE.
• You can customize your timestamp in your Preferences by altering the textbox labeled "Your nickname (for signatures):". For more information on how to format the text in that box see this.

Marking Pages as Incomplete

• Add the following template to add an unfinished/incomplete page to the Needs Work Category, {{rewrite|comment=COMMENT}}, where COMMENT is a short description of what needs to be done.
• Not marking unfinished/incomplete/nonformatted pages as Needs Work delays their completion, because no one may ever easily notice.
• Instead of using the general rewrite template, NeedsConfirm, NeedsContent, and NeedsCleanup can be used to provide more specific Needs Work messages. Those three templace act the same as the rewrite template, and also have the "comment" field.

Useful References

• Proposed Standards - Proposed standards for all KoL type entries.
• Make a Wiki Page - Demonstrates wiki syntax.
• Wikimedia Help - Demonstrates wiki syntax.
• Wiki Oddities - Interesting things that can affect wiki pages.
• Special Pages - List of all special pages, including Unused Images, Most Wanted Pages (pages linked to but not created), Uncategorized Pages, etc.
• Categories - List of all available Categories.
• Templates - List of all available Templates.