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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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet 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:
{| class="wikitable"
! You Type
! You Get
|-
| <nowiki>{{{1Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{1Dot}}}
|-
|-
| <nowiki>{{{2Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{2Dot}}}
|-
| <nowiki>{{{3Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{3Dot}}}
|-
| <nowiki>{{{4Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{4Dot}}}
|-
| <nowiki>{{{5Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{5Dot}}}
|-
|}
For example, if you wanted to give a character dots for the value of a Merit, you could do: Looks ({{2Dot}}}
==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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet 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:
{| class="wikitable"
! You Type
! You Get
|-
| <nowiki>{{{1Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{1Dot}}}
|-
|-
| <nowiki>{{{2Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{2Dot}}}
|-
| <nowiki>{{{3Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{3Dot}}}
|-
| <nowiki>{{{4Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{4Dot}}}
|-
| <nowiki>{{{5Dot}}}</nowiki>
| {{{5Dot}}}
|-
|}
For example, if you wanted to give a character dots for the value of a Merit, you could do: Looks ({{2Dot}}}