Formatting Tips and Tricks

Mediawiki is a versatile platform for sharing and formatting information, but it does have a slight learning curve. However, with the heavy use of templates on the V5 Homebrew Wiki, our contributors shouldn't have to become wiki masters to work on the wiki. Below are a few guidelines, tips and tricks for using the wiki to its fullest potential.

Text Sections

A number of sections will take large chunks of raw text, such as the Archetype descriptions on the Clan/Bloodline pages, or the descriptions of the various Loresheet levels. These text sections can use common wiki markup to do additional formatting.

• You can reference the Mediawiki Cheatsheet to get an overview, with examples, of the most common wiki features such as bullets and other lists, creating links and such things. This will give you a great breadth of easy-to-use formatting options.

Further below are some things specific to this wiki:

Dot Templates

The wiki uses a series of templates to mimic the 'dots' of a World of Darkness character sheet. These templates are available for you to use in your text, by simply inserting the following in your text (exact capitalization, etc. is necessary):

You Type	You Get
{{1Dot}}	•
{{2Dot}}	••
{{3Dot}}	•••
{{4Dot}}	••••
{{5Dot}}	•••••

For example, if you wanted to give a character dots for the value of a Merit, you could do: Looks ••, or to show the level of a Flaw from a Predator Type, you could format it as Enemy •••.

CSS

The V5 Homebrew wiki is designed to support custom CSS used in pages, to do things like format text, change text color, and other functions. While we would like the use of this to be sparing (so that our readers are spared from, as other wikis have coined it, 'rainbow vomit webpages'), CSS is allowed to be used. You can find a ton of resources on using CSS on the web, but we ask that you use it mainly to format text if need-be.