Wiki Help

he Wiki is a collaborative tool for managing collective knowledge. Consider it a shared public repository for encyclopedic information behind the worlds in the Play by Post community. The Wiki is built directly into the familiar interface that all members use for interacting on our forums, but it also extends the functionality of our standard forum bbcodes, input via the editor, for creating and editing wiki content. These bbcodes can be used anywhere on our site, but are most commonly useful for Wiki content.

 

• 1Linking to Wiki Articles
• 2Creating Headlines
• 3Table of Contents
• 4Books
• 5Footnotes
• 6Templates
• 7Showthreads
• 8Redirect
• 9Keywords
• 10Styles

Linking to Wiki Articles

You can create links to Wiki articles by using the wiki bbcode. The following example creates a link to the Wiki Help page: [wiki]Wiki Help[/wiki] If the article to which the link points does not exist, the link will be shown in a red color. You can also link to a wiki article, but have the link appear as another word using a pipe to separate the two, such as: [wiki]Wiki Name|Appearance[/wiki].

Creating Headlines

You can add headlines (section headers) to a wiki article using the following bbcodes. H3 is generally considered the preferred "top-level" headline for our site.

• [h1]Headline Text[/h1]
• [h2]Headline Text[/h2]
• [h3]Headline Text[/h3]
• [h4]Headline Text[/h4]
• [h5]Headline Text[/h5]
• [h6]Headline Text[/h6]
• [h7]Headline Text[/h7]

Table of Contents

Any wiki article that has four or more headlines will have a table of contents with links to its different sections neatly produced at the top of the article right before the first headline. However, you can control the table of contents with a few "magic words" that you can insert into the wiki article.

• will hide the Table of Contents.
• will create a Table of Contents, regardless how many headlines there are.
• sets a new default location for the Table of Contents in the article.

Books

The Wiki supports grouping related wiki articles together into a book. The book bbcode will create a link to a specific Wiki Book. If the book does not exist, a link to the Books listing page is created instead. The syntax for book is as follows: [book]Book Title[/book]

A Wiki Book is a collection of Wiki articles. When a Wiki article is added into a Wiki Book, it becomes a chapter in that book. The order of chapters can be easily changed by editing the corresponding book. Removing a chapter does not delete the Wiki article; it will simply just remove it as a chapter in the book. Any Wiki article that is part of a Wiki Book has a Book Navigation bar added to the bottom of the article, so that readers can go to the book index, or the previous or next chapters. Articles can only be a part of one book each. Users can add articles to books by using the "Add to Book" button found in the control bar at the bottom of each Wiki article.

Footnotes

The footnote bbcode can be used to add footnotes to cite references or provide additional information at the bottom of an Wiki article. Whenever a footnote bbcode is found, it is replaced by a footnote index enclosed in square brackets (e.g., [3]), which links to the corresponding footnote listed at the end of the article. The footnotes are automatically numbered, so all one has to do is add a footnote right into the text as follows: [footnote]Footnote Text[/footnote]

Templates

Play by Post Wiki has a powerful templates system, allowing you to insert the content of other wiki articles directly into your wiki article. This can be very useful for certain functions (like disclaimers, general information, instructions, or guidelines), and can be called using the template bbcode as follows: [template]Template Name[/template] This is an advanced topic covered in greater detail under Wiki Templates.

Showthreads

Using the showthreads bbcode will add a list of the latest threads from a specific forum directly into the wiki article. The syntax for showthreads is as follows: [showthreads=count]forumid[/showthreads] Where count is the number of threads to list, and if not specified 10 threads will be shown; and, forumid is the forumid from where to list the threads, and if not specified, the latest threads in all the forums are shown. Here is an example: [showthreads=5]570[/showthreads] This will pull 5 threads from the General forum (forumid 570), and list it as follows:

 

 

Redirect

From time to time, articles will be merged or moved into other articles. Play by Post Wiki supports the concept of auto-forwarding and article redirects using the #REDIRECT code followed with a wiki bbcode link. The syntax is as follows:

PHP Code:

#REDIRECT [wiki]Wiki Article[/wiki] 


Keywords

The keywords bbcode can be used to specify additional keywords related to a Wiki article. These keywords are displayed in a smaller font and are somewhat greyed out. They are included for indexing with search engines.

Styles

The div and span tags are purely optional and advanced bbcodes for persons familiar with web design, granting them great flexibility in the layout of their wiki articles. The syntax is very straight-forward and mirrors the use of HTML and CSS design principles exactly. Use the div and span bbcodes just as you would use the div and span HTML tags in web design, making their parameters a semicolon separated listing of CSS Style elements, and their arguments the content in which they would be wrapped. For more detailed information on the use of div and span tags, please reviAew a web design guide.