Won't you please, please help me?

-wondering why no one has posted here-

-wondering why not enough people read the wiki-
-wondering why nobody fixed the bombhead logos-

Just a few quick questions:

First, how do I make a new page? I noticed some folks have a profile page dedicated to their own personal knights and I thought I'd make one for mine as well.

Second, is there some kind of software that makes editing easier? Whenever I hit edit, I'm given this weird window with lots of computer mumbo-jumbo that I can't figure out. So is there a free-ware program out there to make this look more like a word page? I've never edited a wiki page so this is my biggest problem.

Next, how do I use pictures from my computer? I have some I'd want to use but I'm not sure how to upload them.

Lastly, can you lock a page? As I said before, I want to create a profile page outlining my knight's characteristics and maybe have a portrait and some shots from battles I've been in. However, I don't want some nut coming in a destroying my page and making my character look like a dork or something. So again, can I lock a page or is there somewhere else I can and should post a profile page?

Thanks,

- Your friendly neighborhood Kn1ghtman

1. Once you've logged onto the Wiki, you'll see a series of links on the top-right corner - one of those links is your name. Simply clicking on your username will allow you to create a Wikipage of your own, wee!

2. Really? The Wiki is really simple for me, just a text box. Try playing around with your Wiki settings (under "my preferences").

3. On the left side of the Wiki, you see a toolbar of links. Scroll down to the third section and look for "upload file".

4. For your reason, no, your userpage cannot be locked. BUT, if some nut comes in and wrecks your userpage, they get in trouble by our lovely Wiki administrator, Equinox! They get a warning for vandalizing a page - repeated offenses mean a ban from editing the Wiki. Luckily, we haven't had many people banned from editing the Wiki :)

Thank you Saph. I really appreciate that; especially regarding my last concern.

^_^

Also for #4, the wiki records every single edit. So not only will I be able to see who has been naughty or nice, we can use the article's history to restore things that have been vandalized. That said, the wiki editors are more likely to be in the nice camp rather than the naughty one!

Having a strange problem, I made a user page and a guild page and edited it a couple times. But my latest edits are only being shown to me. And only when I'm logged in. When I log out it reverts back to a previous version, but still shows the edited source when "view source" is clicked. Asked a friend to check the links and he sees the previous version also.

@thosepeoples:
You can try loading the page with ?action=purge added to the URL in the address bar. This should purge the cached page on the server. Also make sure you purge your own browser cache. (Press ctrl+R in firefox to force a "hard" refresh of the page).

Thanks for the help but, the purging the cache didn't help. I still can't see the updated page while not logged in and neither can my friend.

It's part of the wiki issues. Trias, with the wiki issues, purge does not work.

You just have to wait it out. Generally if you hit edit and use preview, it will show you the latest version. That doesn't always work though.

Okay, I wanna move my languages to below where my picture is without breaking everything else. I suspect it's the info for the darker green box that's breaking everything I'm trying to do. Can anyone tell me how to move it? Or you can do it yourself and I'll be eternally grateful. :D

Just switch to using a right aligned table instead and put the stuff in rows. I can fix it for you tomorrow if you don't figure it out before then.

Alternatively, you can try using <br style="clear: both" /> to force a new line after your picture.
You might want to manipulate the position of your "Table Of Contents" by using __TOC__ , {{TOC right}} or {{TOC left}} if you are doing this.

Thanks a lot Equinox! Looks tast-er...spiffy!

Eh, well apparently the bombing guide page is getting kind of large, and takes longer to load (tried it on a wireless connection and it took 10s to figure itself out). What can I do to reduce loading time? I could put the tactics sections in spoiler style tabs... but i don't know how that'll effect the page =/ it'd work because I'm sure some player would like to work the tactics out themselves instead of reading a wall of text. Any suggestions?

I don't think spoiler tags will do anything for load times. The traditional wiki measure for dealing with long pages is splitting of content to new (sub)pages and using templates for navigation.

Show/hide sections won't work because your browser still loads all of that content, it's just loading it and hiding it rather than showing it outright (that's why the page does not do additional loading when you click on "show"). The only thing that can make a page shorter is to split it up into more than one page. Text generally isn't too slow though, how many images are on that page? Removing images is the other thing that would help speed loading.

damn, ok. I might look at taking some images out... maybe make a sub-page with a bombing gallery with captions for each.... I'll look at it when i have more spare time/not playing sk
thanks guys

Can I change the name of my user page? I want to show off my knights but I don't want people to know the username attached to those knights.

Thanks guys!

Nope, the wiki software automatically records all your edits publicly, just like you use your account to post on the forum. User pages need to be under the username you use to edit the wiki. You could try making a dummy account just to use for editing the wiki if you really wanted a separate named account.

^^

Yeah, so, me and a friend are working on a Guild Page in the Wiki, but I'm having trouble getting the Link to a picture we want as our Picture in our Info box to, well, be the picture and not the link, any help?

Did you check if the file name is correct? Because the slightest small space deems it different.

Otherwise, this code would work without flaws.

[[file:FileName.fileExtension|option|caption, if any]]

You didn't need the type line in the template. I removed it. Just use the red link now to upload a .png of your guild logo. Also, whenever you need help with a specific page, paste the link to the page so we can easily take a look to help you out.

Hmm...well, I was having trouble uploading a file onto the Wiki, but now it keeps saying the File is corrupte when I try to upload a picture to our Guild box-thing, here is the Guild page and the picture I was trying to upload onto it:

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Phoenix_Knights_%28Guild%29

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/File:Images.jpg

.jpg is not the same as .png. Try saving it as a .png (Save as... should have a PNG option in most image editors) and then uploading.

Thanks for putting our picture on our Guild page Equinox, we kept trying but we were still confused and it still kept not working, thanks again for the help.

Hello

I have been using my User Page to create pages for events sponsored by my guild. How do I delete redirected info from my User Page without deleting content to the moved page? I can't seem to delete or edit content from my User Page without affecting the moved page.

Account name: Iceni

Go to your user page and it will automatically redirect you to the new location. You now need to click on the teeny little link under the title (new page name) where it says (Redirected from User:Iceni). That will take you to your user page without it automatically redirecting and you should be able to edit it there to remove the redirect just fine.

okay so I need help making a wiki page for my guild. I tried to start one but I gave up. all that code is confusing. So I would love someone greatly if they helped me.

contact me with in game mail if you can help. I have been browsing other guild's wiki pages and I have an idea of what I want the page to look like.

thanks!

-J

How do I report a user that keeps on vandalizing our guild's page?

I posted a screenshot to the wiki, how do i put it up on the Aeonic Doom guild page?

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/index.php?title=File:Sacrificing_the_spri…

how do i post it to my guild page?

just type that URL in, it should come up. im so disabled when it comes to wiki and links ^_^

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/163/2011100700001.jpg/

could someone upload it?

i couldn't do it

Hi there! I have uploaded this Picture of the Cool Vitakit
Now the problem is, someone called Jadatoys wanted to replace my picture for unknown reason and also broke my file. Now the old version is just stretched out. I wanted to revert this, but well, it doesn't work (already show in 'Current Wiki Issues').

So now, I need help with this. It need to be put back to normal. D:

Reverting actually works in the realm of changing the size back, just not for changing the actual image. I've reverted it to the correct size.

Hi. I was wondering if this is an appropriate place to ask about Steam and wiki-page editing. The problem's that I still can't logon to the wiki page with my Steam account. Two questions: can I edit a wiki page with Mightyputty as the username with my non-Steam account, and is there an ETA for the fix on logging into the wiki with Steam?

Thanks

I don't know that there is an ETA for Steam users being able to edit the wiki. You can make a separate web account with the name Mightyputty and edit that user page, yes. Other Steam users that want to edit the wiki without waiting have taken the same route.

can anyone help me with a little problem i am having with uploading a file to my guilds page? i need to know how to move my guild logo to my guild page. thanks. File:Logo-591856.png

I have just created a Guild page on the wiki for the guild Luminous i have wrote some rules and other things, but when i log out it doesn't show up.

If someone wants to add a snapshot of divine glasses to the wiki, here's a picture: http://imgur.com/3bywV

I'll be selling them sometime in the next 2 weeks, still figuring out how much they're worth. If anyone's interested check out my bazaar page: http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/34405

Could you help me with the TheTric's Template ? I've forgotten the "ropes" of editing wiki.

You'll have to ask TheTric as I am not familiar with his templates.

Hey there, name's StevO. Long story short, can't log into the wiki in any known way, so I'll just be postin' a picture of myself in a Divine Maedate for you guys to use on it's wiki page.

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7104/divinemaedateequipped.png

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Www.spiralknightfreeenergygenerator.com

^Clearly someone scamming for their own personal gain, I just have no idea how to add that deletion tag to it. Anyone help me out here?

EDIT: Thanks Dogrock :3

Looks like the page already got nuked, but for future reference the tag is {{delete}}.

Aww you help poor Equinox, but never me I see how it is....I am learning to cook for you and this how you treat me thats why I have my Eury she EPIC <3 Dogrock lol.

@Equinox --- if he does act out and attempts to bite you just slap him in the rear he likes that more than his treats.

http://wiki.spiralknights.com/Special:Contributions/Lolonumanuma

This person went after your user and talk page Equinox :x Also went after the Nyan Cats Guild page.

I'd fix it myself, but could someone tell/show me how to revert a series of edits all at once? I don't know how to and it could help me revert edits from derp vandals like that guy >.>

EDIT: Since I'm still kind of a wiki-noob, is there a "tutorial" of sorts that shows how to move pages, undo moves/multiple edits and such? I've done a little googling and can't find one for what I'm trying to learn since most seem to be for total beginners, which I believe I'm past :P, or experts, which looks like jibberish to me...

Thanks in advance :3

just try it out in the sandbox