EKWiki Getting Started

This article is meant as a way to get you, the inexperienced EKWiki user to have a persona page that is informative and readable. This is not meant to be a definitive guide on the WikiMedia platform.

Wiki Overview

• A Wiki is a quick to edit Online Information repository
• The most famous of the Wikis is Wikipedia
• Wiki’s are made to be quick to edit, but can support very complex formatting and layouts if necessary

The East Kingdom Wiki

• The East Kingdom Wiki in particular is for SCA participants withing the East Kingdom to post information about their personas, households, etc.
• The EK Wiki Main URL is https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
• Some Examples of EK Wiki Pages
  • Bess Brechin
  • House Three Sheets
  • Llwyd Forester

Accessing your EK Wiki

• If you have not already done so, please follow the account request procedure.
• Go to any EK Wiki Page and click "Log In" in the upper right hand corner
• Enter the username and password you chose as part of the account request process.
• Click on your account name in the center right
• You should now be at your initial persona page. This is the starting point of your profile!

Wiki Tabs

• The default view on most Wiki pages is the Article: Read view.
  • This is shows the article in the format that anyone visiting the page would see
• The next tab is either the View Source (if you don't have permission to edit or are not logged in) or the Edit Tab
  • This tab allows you to view the Wiki Code of any page. This is very powerful as it allows for fast copy & paste from articles that might features or content that you might want to re-use
  • Please avoid editing other member's Persona pages without their permission.
• The third commonly used tab is the "View History" Tab
  • This tab lets you view/link previous versions of a Wiki Article

The Populace Template

• Most profiles will be created with a link to Template talk:Populace , which contains suggestions an a lot of copy able code to get you started
• It covers a lot of the Persona Categories as well as linking to the Awards & Offices Template articles

Building a Basic Persona

First Edits

• Click on your username, then click edit
• Remove the below from your profile and click "show Preview"

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Text and Templates

• The MediaWiki Formatting page covers most of the basics related to text (italics, bold, sections, etc.). Or you can use the WYSIWG editor for the basics.
• Your initial EK Wiki profile from the Template has examples of both Sections headers and lists. Use these to your advantage.