Help:Tutorial
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What is this place?
This is the Wiki about Mario: all the characters, places, things, all kinds of stuff. What's a wiki, you ask?
A wiki is a free encyclopedia, that is, an encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Look at the top of this page and you'll see a little tab that says "edit this page". When you see that, that means that the page you are on is editable. Not all pages are editable, however.
Some pages on the Wiki are protected. This means that that page cannot be edited by a normal user. This means that too many people have tried to vandalize it, and an administrator protected it.
Links
Getting around a wiki is made possible by links.Links are blue text that you click on and they take you to another page on the wiki.
To make a link,type this: [[link name here]]
However,you may want to call a link something it's title isn't.(ex:you want the Main Page to be called Bioniclepedia Main page)
All you do is:
[[link name here|what you want it called]]
All links are blue.If you have clicked on them before,they will be purple.If there is a link to a article that does not exist,it will be red.If you see a red link,you can click on the link to create the article.
If you are going to make a link take you to a certain paragraph on another page,type: [[link name#paragraph name]]
Pictures
All articles are better is they have a picture. To make one,type: [[Pic name.gif]] This will give you a picture.
To control the size of the picture,type [[Pic name.gif|#px]]
To put the picture on the left or right side of the screen,type this: [[Pic name.gif|left or right]]
And,finally,to give the picture a border and put some text in it,type: [[Pic name.gif|frame|what you want in the border]]
Titles
Titles separate a page into sections. To make one,type:==title name==
A big title is what you get
To make a subtitle,put three = instead of two
A second subtitle is made by four ='s
Third subtitles are five ='s
Fourth,six ='s
Categorys
Categorys are what puts articles into the right group.To know all the categorys available,click here To put a category on an article type: [[Category:whatever the category is]]
Other minor stuff
You can do other things on a wiki too to make the article look better.For example,if you want a blank title,you can just type ----
This will give you a line:
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