Help:User Guide

This is the user guide for Forklift Certified Video Games written by the admin to assist both new and seasoned editors in the usage of the site.

Account creation

To create an account and start editing the wiki, simply press Create account in the upper right corner of the site. FCVG does not require you to add any personal information to register, however during registration you can choose to include your real name if you wish. Your email-address is used to activate your account and to reset your password in case you forget it.

User profile

Your user profile displays information about your activity on the site, such as friends, statistics and your personal message board. In addition to your user profile you are free to create your own wiki userpage which is linked from your profile as shown below:

USER PROFILE

You are free to be creative and make your wiki userpage unique. If you are struggling with ideas FCVG recommend using the wiki userpage template:

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Simply copy this line of code and paste it into your user page's source editor, then switch to the visual editor to customize the fields.

Preferences

In the preferences of your account you can change your password and set your preferred language among many other things. You can find the link to your user preferences at the top right corner of the site while logged in.

Page creation

The following section explains the standard method of page creation here at FCVG. You can use the visual editor for easy page creation by filling in form fields within a template, or you can use the source editor for more advanced formating using the markup language Wikitext.

Keep in mind that pages you create on the site must be in English.

Infobox

Infoboxes are commonly used to display important information about the topic of each page. They are usually placed to the right of the rest of the page content. To achieve this we place the following template code to the top of the page within the source editor:

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Images

To upload an image to use on your page you can press the Images and media button in the toolbar of the source editor.

SOURCE EDITOR TOOLBAR

Note: The maximum size limit per image is 1MB.

Gallery

If you want to include an image gallery to your page you can press the Picture gallery button in the source editor toolbar or use the following tags with the image source and text separated by |.

<gallery>
example-image.jpg|example-image-text
</gallery>

References

Referencing (also called citing) can be done by clicking the Reference button in the source editor toolbar.

SOURCE EDITOR TOOLBAR 2

FCVG uses the Cite extension which provides footnotes to a page. Note that the reference tags in the text differ from the reference tag in the footnote. You will need both to make a complete reference. To make a complete reference you would simply insert the following code.

<ref>Author. Example, ''Example reference title'', retrieved 1 January, 2000, from https://example.website.</ref>

== Notes ==
<references />

Categories

Category is a MediaWiki namespace where other pages within a category are listed alphabetically. The category namespace is different from the main namespace by having the prefix Category: in front of the page name. For example, the Video Games category consists of all pages on the site that are video games. To make your page part of the video games category, you would simply write the following at the bottom of the page.

[[Category:Video Games]]

You can add as many categories as you see appropriate for each page. If you insert a category that doesn't exist, it will give a red link at the very bottom of the page, and if you click the red link it will take you to the page creation of the new category. FCVG category pages should be simple and informative, with a short definition or explanation of what it is about.

Example page

Following is an example page made with all of the syntaxes we have learned in this guide. Try to copy the code below into your own page and preview it to get a feel of how it works. When you are ready you can edit the different parts to fit the page you want to create and press the Save page button at the bottom of the editor when it's ready for publishing.

{| class="wikitable infotable" style="float: right; display: block;  margin: 0px 10px 10px 15px;"
|colspan="2" style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"|Example-title
|-
|colspan="2"|[[File:example-image.png|thumb|center|example-image-text]]
|-
|Release||1. January 2000
|-
|Developer(s)||Example-developer
|-
|Publisher(s)||Example-publisher
|-
|Platform(s)||Example-platform<br>Example-platform 2
|-
|Genre(s)||Example-genre<br>Example-genre 2
|-
|Mode(s)||Example-mode
|}
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</noautolinks>
<br>
<gallery>
example-image.jpg|example-image-text
</gallery>

[[Category:Example-category]]
[[Category:Example-category 2]]

Note: To make a line break in the text, simply use the following tag.

<br>

Miscellaneous

This section is for various options that are not covered above.

Moving pages

If the title url of a page is incorrect you can request it to be moved to a new title/url. To do so, press the More dropdown menu and select Move.

File:Move page dropdown.jpg

Further reading

If you are in need of further assistance with the syntax of Wikitext you can tap the Help option in the editor.

You can also visit the Help:Cheatsheet page on Wikipedia where you'll find the most common Wikitext syntax explained in detail.

This concludes the user guide for FCVG. Feel free to contact the admin if you get stuck somewhere. Happy contributing!