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There are three ways to create a new page on the Team Fortress Wiki:
 
There are three ways to create a new page on the Team Fortress Wiki:
  
Firstly you can simply type the name of the new page you wish to create into the Search box on the left navigation menu. If the page does not currently exist, the page displayed will advise you that '''There is no page titled "''[page you searched for]''"'''. You can <span style="color:red">create this page</span>. Click the <span style="color:red">'create this page'</span> link to create the new page.
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Firstly, you can simply type the name of the new page you wish to create into the Search box on the left navigation menu. If the page does not currently exist, the page displayed will advise you that  
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Click the red text of "<font color="FF000">[page you searched for]</font>" to begin creating the new page.
  
Secondly, you can navigate to the [[Wikipedia:Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] of the new page directly. For example, typing out <tt><nowiki>http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/New_page</nowiki></tt> into your browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will take you to a '''New page''' document. On that page you can click the '''Create''' tab to bring up the editing box.
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Secondly, you can navigate to the [[Wikipedia:Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] of the new page directly. For example, typing out <tt><nowiki>http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/New_page</nowiki></tt> into your browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will take you to a '''New page''' document. On that page you can click the '''CREATE''' tab to bring up the editing box.
  
Alternatively any page that contains a red link such as [[Help:Non-existent page]] indicates that the page does not exist. Clicking on the link will take you to a page where the first version can be written and saved.  
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Alternatively, any page that contains a red link such as {{!xt|example page}} indicates that the page does not exist. Clicking on the link will take you to a page where the first version of the page can be written and saved.  
  
 
== Creating a subpage ==
 
== Creating a subpage ==
Subpages can be thought of as ''children'' of articles in the document tree. As such they should be used when you wish to create an article that is intrinsically linked to the parent article. Articles that have been translated into different languages use subpages to store the separate content, for example the [[Main Page]] has a [[Main Page/pl]] which has the translated content in Polish.
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Subpages can be thought of as ''children'' of articles in the document tree. As such they should be used when you wish to create an article that is intrinsically linked to the parent article. Articles that have been translated into different languages use subpages to store the separate content. For example, the [[Main Page]] has a [[Main Page/pl]] which has the translated content in Polish.
  
 
To create a subpage, the same procedure should be used as above using the forward slash ('''/''') to indicate the separation between the original page, and the subpage. Example:- '''<code><nowiki>Original page name/Subpage name</nowiki></code>'''.
 
To create a subpage, the same procedure should be used as above using the forward slash ('''/''') to indicate the separation between the original page, and the subpage. Example:- '''<code><nowiki>Original page name/Subpage name</nowiki></code>'''.
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* From [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents MediaWiki Help]:
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** [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Formatting]
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[[Category:Help|Editing]]
 
[[Category:Help|Editing]]

Latest revision as of 18:57, 6 September 2023

Basic formatting

Description You type You get
Italic text

''italic''

italic

Bold text

'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic

'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

Internal link
(within the Wiki)

[[Rocket Launcher]]
[[Rocket Launcher|A large weapon]]
[[Soldier]]s and [[Medic]]s

Rocket Launcher
A large weapon
Soldiers and Medics

Internal non-standard page link
(within the Wiki)

[[:Category:Bread images]]
[[:Category:Bread images|An Engineer's breakfast]]
[[:File:Engineer Wiki Cap.png]]
[[:File:Engineer Wiki Cap.png|Engineer with a cool hat]]
[[Media:Sf12 wheel scared08.wav]]
[[Media:Sf12 wheel scared08.wav|Merasmus attempting to intimidate the player]]

Category:Bread images
An Engineer's breakfast
File:Engineer Wiki Cap.png
Engineer with a cool hat
Media:Sf12 wheel scared08.wav
Merasmus attempting to intimidate the player

Section link on other page

[[Scout#Weapons]]
[[Scout#Weapons|Scout weapons]]
[[w:Team Fortress 2#Gameplay]]
[[w:Team Fortress 2#Gameplay|Team Fortress 2 Gameplay on Wikipedia]]

Scout#Weapons
Scout weapons
w:Team Fortress 2#Gameplay
Team Fortress 2 Gameplay on Wikipedia

Section link on same page

[[#Creating a subpage]]
[[#Creating a subpage|Creating a subpage section]]

#Creating a subpage
Creating a subpage section

Categorization

[[Category:Gameplay]]
[[Category:Gameplay/fr]] (on French pages)

Places the page in Category:Gameplay
Places the page in Category:Gameplay/fr

External link
(to other websites)

[http://www.example.org Text to display]
[http://www.example.org]
http://www.example.org

Text to display
[1]
http://www.example.org

Link to Wikipedia
See this page for more interwiki links.

[[Wikipedia:Team Fortress 2|TF2 on Wikipedia]]
[[w:Team Fortress 2|TF2 on Wikipedia]]
[[w:nl:Team Fortress 2|TF2 on Dutch Wikipedia]] (on Dutch pages)

TF2 on Wikipedia
TF2 on Wikipedia
TF2 on Dutch Wikipedia

Citation Needed

{{Citation needed}}

[citation needed]

Redirect to another page

#REDIRECT [[Target page]]

Redirect arrow without text.pngTarget page

Redirect to a non-english page

#REDIRECT [[Target page/x]] {{R lang|x}} where x is the language's code (de, fr, es, ru...)

Redirect arrow without text.pngTarget page/x

Section headings
A Table of Contents will automatically be generated when four headings are added to an article.

== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4
Level 5
Bulleted list

* One
* Two
** Two point one
* Three

  • One
  • Two
    • Two point one
  • Three
Numbered list
Empty lines between list items restarts numbering at 1.

# One
# Two
## Two point one
# Three

  1. One
  2. Two
    1. Two point one
  3. Three
Indenting text

no indent (normal)
:first indent
::second indent
:::third indent

no indent (normal)

first indent
second indent
third indent
File

[[File:Logo.png‎‎|100px]]

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Thumbnail image

[[File:Logo.png‎|thumb|Caption text]]

Caption text
For Talk Pages
Sign your posts on talk pages

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Username (talk) 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Indenting your posts on talk pages
(remember to sign your messages)

First message on topic. User1 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
:Reply to user's first message. User2 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
::Reply to second message. User1 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
:Reply to original message. User2 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

First message on topic. User1 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Reply to user's first message. User2 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Reply to second message. User1 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Reply to original message. User2 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Outdenting your posts on talk pages

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{{Outdent|6}}Outdented talk page message User2 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Talk page message with 6 indents User1 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────Outdented talk page message User2 21:29, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Creating a page

There are three ways to create a new page on the Team Fortress Wiki:

Firstly, you can simply type the name of the new page you wish to create into the Search box on the left navigation menu. If the page does not currently exist, the page displayed will advise you that

You may create the page "[page you searched for]", but consider checking the search results below to see whether it is already covered.

Click the red text of "[page you searched for]" to begin creating the new page.

Secondly, you can navigate to the URL of the new page directly. For example, typing out http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/New_page into your browser's URL address bar and hitting the enter button will take you to a New page document. On that page you can click the CREATE tab to bring up the editing box.

Alternatively, any page that contains a red link such as example page indicates that the page does not exist. Clicking on the link will take you to a page where the first version of the page can be written and saved.

Creating a subpage

Subpages can be thought of as children of articles in the document tree. As such they should be used when you wish to create an article that is intrinsically linked to the parent article. Articles that have been translated into different languages use subpages to store the separate content. For example, the Main Page has a Main Page/pl which has the translated content in Polish.

To create a subpage, the same procedure should be used as above using the forward slash (/) to indicate the separation between the original page, and the subpage. Example:- Original page name/Subpage name.

Saving pages

Once edited, before actually saving your changes, make good use of the 'Show preview' button to preview the changes. Avoid saving too often or saving just to see what it looks like. Each page save will generate an entry in recent changes. Repeated trivial and unnecessary saves tend to clutter up that list and inconvenience users who make use of that list to watch for vandals or misinformed edits. Once you are happy with your changes, enter a brief summary of what changes you have made in the 'Summary:' text box and click the 'Save page' button.

The 'This is a minor edit' tick box should be used if small changes (for example, grammar corrections) have been made. The 'Watch this page' tick box is useful to keep an eye on changes to that article. These will show up in your 'My Watchlist' (found at the top right of the wiki when you are logged in) if any changes have been made.

See also

External