User blog:Nowie Sheep/For Jim Liu. The basics of Source Coding

Alright Jim, lets do this.

First things first. IF YOU EVER GET STUCK, ASK ASH, PERSONA, ZICOIHNO, ZIKIMURA, ME OR ONE OF THE OTHER USERS. PREFERABLY ME THOUGH :)

Quite often you'll use Visual instead of Source however, once you add the "time-skip" thing, you'll be forced to edit ONLY in Source, since these laptops (and I'm assuming your computer as well) won't be able to switch to Visual for some reason. Anyway, time-skip is for WWAAAAYYYY later.



Ok first: Linking. For visual, it's actually pretty easy. See at the top the giant 'B'? That stands for BOLD. It bolds your text like Word Document. the 'i' next to it is italics. Then the thing next to italics. Guess what it is? If you thought Underline then you're an idiot. (Please don't bash me). Those chains are for Hyper linking. You highlight the text you want to link (preferably within this wikia. You can also do it outside this wikia but you usually have to post the url). click the chains, and then type the words you're going to link. It will then be a blue-ish text which means it's obviously hyperlinked. If it's red, then that means that either you typed the link wrong or the page doesn't exist.

These links can be a bit buggy aswell. For example, if you check the Dragon Slayer Magic page, and look at Crystal Dragon Slayer, you'll see that the dragon who taught the magic is called Guren. Unfortunately, it would appear that the dragon got deleted. And some time later, I made a magical race called the Guren. So basically what happens is that the Crystal Dragon Slayer "Dragon" is linked to a bunch of mechanical killers powered by lachrima.

Now then, infoboxes. You SHOULD be able to get this one done pretty easily but I'll still walk you throguh it, although I reckon Ziki or the Admins will still be able to do a better job.



The box in the red circle reads "edit". Hold on.

Ashuron Ren

Ok, there's the link to Ashuron.

Anyways, once you go inside Ashuron's edit, you'll see this crap load of texts, no pictures whatsoever. This is because Ashruon has the timeskip thing. Oh btw, the timeskip images don't work on our laptops, which means tha If you want to see what it looks like, you'll have to use an IPhone or a home computer...maybe just a normal computer would work.

Well then, here are the following.



Red is the Construction Template. this template tells the reader that the character is still under construction and that you'll be editing it soon. So basically like saying you haven't finished your meal yet (or in your case, your opponent...or victim)

Purple is "your property". This is saying that a certain article belongs specifically to YOU. Some people (like the admins and ziki) have their own, personalised property templates. I don't know how they did this, but it makes it more definite that they shouldn't touch the article.

Blue (sorry my hand is a bit shaky...take a guess as to why :) ) is the "quote". Bit difficult but, if you study the source code and experiment a bit, you'll get the hang of it really easily. Just type in what your character says, or what YOU think about the character. Then, behind the | thing, write who says it. If it isn't you or the character (So if it was another character) then link it.

Black is the infobox. Just copy the bulk and change bits a pieces of it. You see how it says |name= Ashuron Jyu Bia Viole Ren? You can change anything PAST the = sign. For some reason, if you change "name" it completely stuffs up to the point where I want to cry sometimes. | is some sort of weird character that you can't find on the keyboard. What it does is...well I don't know but it's basically the lynchpin for everything on this wikia.

Green. That's the images. I'll tell you about the timeskip things at school if you want to know (Or just FB). (If you get curious but you've already left Leichhardt, we could just meet up somewhere and I could show you). Anyway, the basic thing you get when you upload an image is:



NOTE: THEY HAVE AN EXTRA BRACKET AT THE END BUT I'M DOING THIS IN SOURCE CODE SO IF I ADD A BRACKET THEN IT'LL TURN INTO THE IMAGE.

What it usually looks like is :

Now what this is is the basic image. However, the thumb part will give it a border saying "Added by _______"

To remove this, you delete the |thumb, thereby giving you:

Well, Kanji and Romanji, just leave it to a site called Nihongodict (Ashy gave me the link. THANKS ASH)

http://www.nihongodict.com/

Don't worry, it's unblocked. Anyways, what you do is type in a word, DO NOT PRESS ENTER OR IT LIMITS THE CHOICES, and copy the Kanji. The Romanji are the words in English letters underneath of it. You can copy that as well.

In source coding, BOLD is '''. (x3 '). ITALICS is ''(x2 ').

Hmm...I'm pretty sure I posted this on your talk page however, to make a new topic, you just do ==something==. I would do a demonstration but, these laptops suck balls and just deleated half of the blog so I'll make this quick. To make a subsection, you do ===something subsection===. To make a subsection INSIDE the subsection, you do ====subception====

Just experiment on this blog and you'll get the hang of it.

Well then, category. You see the giant box on the right side called "Categories"? In Add a category, you just click on it and begin typing, To make a new category, you just type what you want it to be called and add it. Normally it won't register as a new category until it has TWO articles under it's category (characters, magic, templates, stories etc.)

UHHHHH, Well I'm seriously tired cause James (The cute, little year 7 one, not Hu) was my partner for Basketball today and I had to constantly defend and so I'll just leave it at this.

If you ever get into a s***storm, ask one of the admins. As of now :6/6/12...OMG TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY *cough* *cough*. Anyway, as of now, they are the three admins of Fairy Tail Fanon Wikia.

Persona is mostly in charge of magics, and if you EVER want to make a Dragon Slayer, you'll need the ALL GO from him...I'm pretty sure Persona's a guy...right?

However, if you're making a Dragon Slayer, it's gotta be an element and has to make sense or else a s***storm will occur. Just look at the comments of the Dragon Slayer Magic page and you'll see what I mean...I just HAD to make a Rumble Dragon Slayer. Well now it's just a caster type Lost Magic so that's alright.

Ashy is like...the all around guy. He can help with everything...well so can the other admins but he's like...ALWAYS there so if you need help just go on his talk page and ask him. REMEMBER, IF YOU'RE GOING ON SOMEBODY'S TALKPAGE, MAKE A NEW TOPIC

Now then: Zicoihno. How should I say this...well, you don't want to piss him off. I'll just leave it at that. Not quite sure what he is about, but I would say he's about templates and articles and stuff so yeah....

Anyway, one more thing. Zikimura's perhaps one of the most advanced editors I've ever met

(The thing on my profile is actually from him, I just changed it around a bit)

So if you have any probs about editing and for some reason you get scared of the admins (which I doubt you ever will), just ask Ziki...although sometimes he might be a tad bit drunk (See the Blissfully Disturbed blog he made...it's so depressing).

Well, then, hope you get the gist of it and I'll see you at school. Cya!