User talk:Edwin de waterman

Here you can.. eeh.. Talk about me xD

As I said here I can use some hints whit how to use this Wiki.

...

Yours~

Edwin de waterman

Welcome and some tips
Hi there Edwin. Thanks for taking interest in updating the wiki! We can always use more contributers.

To answer your question about what language to use on the wiki, it's not really any programming language (technically HTML isn't a programming language either). There are simply some special codes, keywords and tags that the wiki engine interprets either when the page is saved, or when the page is viewed. Yes, some HTML tags can be used in the wiki, but generally it is preferred to use the wiki alternative, since it provides more flexibility in style and content management.

Probably the best place to start would be to browse through the Wiki Editing Help. It has everything you need to know about what tags and keywords can be used on the wiki. Please note that the TibiaWiki does not have all available modules installed, so not every tag will work on this wiki (formulas do not work, for instance).

If you have any questions, ideas, or suggestions, feel free to post a comment on one of the Administrators talk pages.

One more thing, before you start editing pages, you should read the Policy and Standards pages.

08:40, 17 February 2006 (CST)

Strictly, there's no language like so in a Wiki. Only a formating for text. There are some sintaxis and special estructures but in general, just look at the pages that already exists to have an idea how this works.

Welcome to Wiki world :)

--Kaio 01:42, 20 February 2006 (CST)

Dragon Corpse Quest
I saw that you put a story up on the Dragon Corpse Quest page. Is this a real story from the game, or did you just make it up?

I posted a comment on the Talk:Dragon Corpse Quest page. Please reply there.

Thanks!

08:46, 17 February 2006 (CST)

Ok
Thanks for welcoming me! I already red the policy and standards (and some more) pages but thanks for reminding again. I always do that when I start something, e.g.: I knew Tibia in May 2004 but started playing in August 2005 :D And thanks for the Wiki Editing Help page. Didn't saw that yet.

And... Uhm... Read it on the Talk:Dragon Corpse Quest page...

Yours~

Edwin de waterman

Another question
Atm I am organising The Olympic Games of Astera 2006 and I wonder if I may write an article about this.

May I?

Yours~

Edwin de waterman

Sandbox
As you can here I have put a sandbox for my event on my users page. I have some problems whit the prices and some lay-out problems, I have to add  tags there. but still, there is something weird on the brginning. the text is underlined (maybe somebody can help me whit that). I am also working on the paragraphs now.

Yours~

Edwin de waterman 06:59, 20 February 2006 (CST)

About pages for in-game events. I'm not sure that it would be appropriate to put a page like that on the wiki.

You are certainly welcome to put the info on your user page, but I think you will get the most exposure by posting it on the world forums at Tibia.com.

The decision is ultimately up to Erig, but I would prefer that information on the wiki would be about the game itself, and only information that was relevent to all game worlds.

08:51, 20 February 2006 (CST)

I just took a quick look at your user page, and here's a few quick tips:


 * There are some special codes for formatting:
 * '' (two single quotes) can be used in place of "&lt;i&gt;"
 * ''' (three single quotes) can be used in place of "&lt;b&gt;"

This will work:
 * Make sure nested tags are in reverse order when they are closed:

&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Some bold underline text&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;

This will NOT work:

&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Some bold underline text&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;

Notice how in the first one, the "b" tags are inside the "u" tags.


 * About using line breaks (&lt;br&gt;), this is usually done with whitespace. The wiki is different than normal HTML in how it handles whitespace in the source for the page. I believe it replaces extra blank lines with "&lt;p&gt;" tags. The only time you should need to use "&lt;br&gt;" is if you want two lines of text with no extra space in between. Most of the time, the following examples will be what you use:

This code (two lines): Line One Line Two

When processed, will look like:

Line One Line Two

This code (Blank line in between): Line One

Line Two

When processed, will look like:

Line One

Line Two

This code (two blank lines in between): Line One

Line Two

When processed, will look like:

Line One

Line Two

08:51, 20 February 2006 (CST)

Thanks again Whitelaces!

I knew that about the nested tags I just typed it wrong, also the  or aphostrofy tags I know, I just had it in html format. Still thanks for the linethingie. I didn't know what to use there :)

Yours~

Edwin de waterman

No problem, just trying to help. Another thing that might save you some typing is when you are refering to a user's page, just enter it like this:

 User:Whitelaces  Whitelaces

Notice the pipe symbol before the closing brackets - this "pipe trick" hides anything in parenthesis, and also hides anything before the first colon.

Doing it this way also works, and the link is a different color (treated as an external link), but too much typing for me. I'd rather let the wiki software do most of the work for me. :)

 Whitelaces  Whitelaces

15:01, 21 February 2006 (CST)

I not type the links, I copy them :), but I see the difference.

Yours~ Edwin de waterman 01:42, 22 February 2006 (CST)

Things to do now:
1. Edit the links. [b]done[/b]

2. Small question: shall I let the stars at the beginning of the rules? 'Cause they are important. I'll change the stars at the beginning (games). [b]done[/b]

I got this when I opened my user page:

Database error
From TibiaWiki A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query hidden) from within function "MediaWikiBagOStuff:_doquery". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry 'wikidb:messages:Currentevents-url' for key 1 (localhost)".