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To edit a page, click "Edit" near the top of the page. When you are finished, click "Show Preview" to preview your changes. If you are satisfied, enter a summary of your changes in the "Summary:" box and click "Save Page". Entering a summary allows you explain to other editors why you made a certain change.

If your edit was a minor correction, such as a grammar, spelling, or minor formatting change, you may tick the "This is a minor edit" box. Minor edits can be excluded on the Recentchanges page, making it easier for other editors to review major changes. Ticking the "Watch this page" box adds the page to your Watchlist, which allows you to track changes to particular pages.

Please Note: If you want to try out or practice wiki markup or other formatting, please use the Sandbox, not an actual article.

Adding New Pages

To add a new page, first search for it to make sure it doesn't already exist at a different name. Click the link on the search results page to add it as a new page. You can also follow a red link and it will automatically take you to the edit page.

• Be sure to add any appropriate templates, such as character boxes, navigation elements, etc.
• If your page lacks images, be sure to add {{noimage}}
• If your page is a stub — in other words, if it is not as complete as presently possible given the information available about the subject — be sure to assign the {{stub}} template.

Naming Conventions

To make your article easier for other editors to find, you should follow standard naming conventions. The basic rule is that the article title should appear however it would if it were used in the middle of a sentence (bearing in mind that the Wiki software will automatically capitalize the first letter, but that links ignore the capitalization of the first letter).

To test whether your article title is appropriate, simply use it in a sentence, ignoring the capitalization of the first letter. If it looks good, then you have the right title. For example, if you are writing an article about Jaime's bangs, trying the sentence "Jaime's Bangs look preposterous" reveals that a better title is "Jaime's bangs".

For more detailed help on naming conventions, see the naming conventions article.

Categories

Assign appropriate categories to your article. The following table lists the top-level categories, plus some primary subcategories:

To assign a category, add [[Category:Name of Category]] to the end of your article.

• Be specific. If an article is assigned to a subcategory, do not assign it to the parent category as well. The exception is Category:Characters, whcih should be assigned to all characters to produce a "master list".
• Assign categories in a logical order. Check other articles with similar categories.
• Be mindful that some templates assign categories automatically. You can still add the category manually if necessary. This is most often done to change the category sort.
• In general, an article should not be assigned to both "in-world" and "real-world" categories. For example, images should be assigned only Category:Files categories.

To link to a category, precede the word "Category with a colon, like this: [[:Category:Images]]. This is particularly important when redirecting to a category; otherwise, the redirect itself will be categorized.

To change the way an article sorts within the category, pipe the sort after the category assignment. For example, to sort an article called "Jaime Sommers" as "Sommers, Jaime" within Category:Enhanced Humans, you would type [[Category:Enhanced Humans|Sommers, Jaime]]. Be sure to sort the article appropriately on all categories.

Article layout

Your new article should be laid out consistently with other articles in its category. Pay special attention to standard navigational elements, sidebars, and section headings, and the order of page sections. For a detailed breakdown of standard article layout practices, as well as sample layouts you can copy and paste into your new article, see Help:Layout.

Adding a New Episode

See the new episode template for information on how to use the template to create a new episode. All episodes articles are created within the Episode namespace (ex. Episode:Pilot). Once a new episode is created, edit its Talk page and use the instructions here to include the new episode checklist into the talk page. This will allow everyone to more easily remember what information has to be updated elsewhere on the Bionic Wiki after a new episode.

Formatting

Text Formatting

To format text, you can use either html or Wiki markup. Wiki markup is generally preferable because it makes pages easier to read when editing. Some basic formatting:

Most other formatting, such as underlines, strikethrus, ^superscripts, _subscripts, etc. should use HTML:

For more help on using HTML in wikitext, see Wikipedia Help:HTML in Wikitext.

Section Headings

Section headings divide the page into sections. They provide links to edit a particular section, automatically produce a table of contents when necessary, and make the page easier to read. To add a section heading, surround the heading text with two equals signs on either side. For each level of subsection heading, add an additional equals sign to either side. For example, the heading of this section, a second-level section, was produced by typing ===Section Headings===.

Miscellaneous Formatting

Spacing

Although grammatically correct, unless you are using the <pre> tag or ascii codes, using double spacing after a sentence is not going to work. Like with normal HTML coding, it is common practice at Bionic Wiki not to double space after a period. It saves both disk space and a lot of human effort to remember this when creating or editing articles.

If you must display some text with exact spacing as entered, such as when quoting the text of an article or blog, prepend the text with the <pre> tag and append it with </pre>. The <pre> tag will seperate the enclosed text and format it appropriately.

If you want to block a line break from occurring, use the ascii code for a space,  , instead of a typing a space with the spacebar. This is commonly used to prevent linebreaks in the alt-text for portal image links (Note: do not use ascii codes for the link itself).

Dashes

You can add a horizontal line by entering four dashes. Also, you can use a double-dash to produce a hyphen.

Lists

You can add lists by using a pound sign (for numbered lists) or an asterisk (for bulleted lists).

For more help with formatting, see Wikipedia Help:Editing.

Tables

You can add tables using either HTML or Wiki markup. Begin the table with {|. Begin each row with |-. Begin each heading cell with ! and each normal cell with |. Close the table with |}. You can apply formatting to tables, rows, and cells just as you would with HTML. For cells, be sure to separate the content of the cell from the formatting with an additional pipe.

For more detailed help with basic tables, see Wikipedia Help:Table.
Bionic Wiki has also enabled a special kind of table called collapsible tables. For help on this, see Help:Collapsible tables.

Links

A good article should include plenty of links to allow navigation between articles and to provide supplemental information. There are two main kinds of links: internal links, which are links to other pages on Bionic Wiki, and external links, which are links to other sites on the Web.

Internal Links

To add an internal link, simply put the name of the article to which you wish to link in double brackets:

When linking to an article, the capitalization of the first letter is ignored. [[enhancements]] will link to "Enhancements". Other capitalization must match the article exactly. For example, [[Jaime sommers]] does not link to "Jaime Sommers".

Blended Links

Link text will automatically blend with text that is consecutively after it. This means that redirects are not needed for plurals, some alternate conjugations, and such. To add a blended link, simply place double brackets around the portion of the term which is an article title.

Piping a Link

You can alter the link text that is displayed from the name of the linked article by piping alternate text within the brackets. Type the correct name of the article first, then a pipe (|) character, then the text you wish to display.

Be careful when piping that the text remains descriptive of the link to avoid making link navigation confusing for the reader. As a general rule, the piped text should always describe the subject of the article in the context in which it is used. For example, saying "Jaime sees [[Becca|a family member]] through the window" in a context where Jaime (or the viewer) does not know the identity of her family member is appropriate. Saying "Jaime is a [[Star Trek|big geek]]" is not appropriate because the piped text, "big geek", does not describe the article "Star Trek". It would be clearer for the reader to say "Jaime is a big geek, and a huge fan of [[Star Trek]]". That way, they have a better idea of where the link will take them.

Linking across Namespaces

You can link to articles in other namespaces just as you would normal articles. Simply include the namespace, a colon, and the article title. You can automatically remove the namespace from the displayed link by adding a pipe but no pipe text. You can also pipe and blend as normal.

If the namespace is one that would normally have special reflexes (like images or categories), you can convert it to a link by preceeding the namespace with a colon:

Typing...	yields...
[[Image:Blankperson.jpg]]
[[:Image:Blankperson.jpg]]	Image:Blankperson.jpg
[[:Category:Enhanced Humans|]]	Evolved Humans

Linking to a Section

You can link to a specific section heading in an article. Section headings create HTML anchors, and can be linked to just like in HTML: add a pound sign to the end of the article name, and then add the name of the section.

You can also redirect to a section. For example, redirecting "Linking" to "[[Help:Editing#Linking to a Section]]" will take the reader directly to this section's heading.

Linking to Redirects

Redirect pages provide an easy way to point links which refer to one piece of text ("Jaime") to an article with a different title ("Jaime Sommers"). Redirects allow editors to write more natural sounding text without needing to pipe every link. When linking to a redirect page, be sure to check the preview before saving your change. Make sure the link points to the proper article.

Otherwise, there is no reason to prefer piped links over links to redirect pages or vice-versa

External Links

Adding an external link is similar to adding an internal link, with two important difference. First, the link is surrounded by single, not double, brackets. Second, the url is separated from the link text by a space, not a pipe. If no link text is entered, the link will be numbered. The numbers assigned to unlabeled external links will increment automatically throughout the page.

You can also add a link as raw text and it will appear as it is.

You can also use the <ref> tag to create an external link as a part of a list of references. All links placed between <ref> tags will appear as footnotes, and the links will be grouped together and displayed wherever the <references /> tag is placed in the article. For more help with footnotes, see Wikipedia Help:Footnotes.

Interwiki Links

Interwiki links allow you to link to other Wikis, such as Wikipedia, and have the link appear as an internal link. To add an interwiki link, prefix the link with a recognized interwiki prefix. For example, to link to the article "jelly baby" on Wikipedia, add the link as [[wikipedia:jelly baby]]. The link will look like this: wikipedia:jelly baby. To remove the interwiki prefix, add a pipe character after the article title, like this: [[wikipedia:jelly baby|]].

Available interwiki links include:

• battlestarwiki:
• commons:
• heroeswiki:
• mediazilla:
• memoryalpha:
• metawikipedia:
• wikibooks:
• wikimedia:
• wikinews:
• wikipedia:
• wikiquote:
• wikisource:
• wikispecies:
• wiktionary:

Special Links

A few templates are available to produce special links.

Template	Function	Example...	...Yields
Editlink	Produces a link to edit the current article	{{editlink}}	edit
Imagelink	Produces a clickable image that links to an article	{{imagelink|image=Carly.JPG|height=63|width=50|link=Carly|text=Carly}}
Link	Produces a link if article exists, text if not	{{link|Jaime Sommers}} {{link|Should not exist}}	Jaime Sommers Should not exist
Nowantedlink	Produces a link if article exists, an edit link if not (but no red link)	{{nowantedlink|Becca Sommers}} {{nowantedlink|Should not exist}}	Becca Sommers Should not exist
Nbl	Produces a link which won't break across a line break	{{nbl|Antonio Pope|This link won't break at the spaces}}	This link won't break at the spaces
Querylink	Allows you to append a URL query string to a link	{{querylink|link=Jaime Sommers|qs=&oldid=3806}}	Jaime Sommers
Searchlink	Creates a link which will search for the listed term	{{searchlink|text=Jamie}}	Jamie

For more on each template, including full usage instructions and options, click the template's name above.