User blog:SoPretentious/Useful Tools for New Users

A template is a page that is created on the wiki, and then whenever someone uses said template, the information on the template page is transfixed onto wherever the template is placed. This is what a template looks like. Then parameters are placed after the template name with a "pipe", that looks like this.

A parameter would only be used if the template page has parameters. Parameters are very versatile, as are templates themselves. Templates are only designed for use on the wiki they are created, they're different on trollpasta (though many are probably the same) and spinpasta. Here's a list of some of the more useful templates (on this wiki).

t
This template shows the name of whatever template name you place as the parameter, displayed in the brackets for when the template itself is important. A link to the template page also results. Example:  results in: sort.

sort
This is for sorting stories which start with the word "The", "A", or "An". It is important these stories are categorized under the second word in the genre listing. It goes at the bottom of the page, and is invisible while in reading mode.

ul
Type a username as the parameter, and you'll get the name of the user, with a link to their profile. Example:  results in:.

Nav-bottom
This template puts an organically designed navigation to the story before and after whatever page it's placed on. Note that the title of the stories don't need to be brackets, just the name of the story that follows and precedes.

title of prequel, title of sequel
These template fill out a note that can be placed at the top of a story indicating this story is part of series.

AN
Produces the format necessary for an author's note at the top of stories.

Note
If you're not the author and you're trying to put a note at the top of a stories.

reason for admin review
Placed at the top of the page, this template is for stories that have issues and need to be reviewed by an administrator. Reasons like, "punctuation, wording, spacing, storyline, and spelling issues, etc." are the parameter. The categories should be removed and placed after at the bottom of the page.

reason for deletion
Same as M4R, but for stories that are spam/missing spaces after punctuation/every word is capititalized/random capitalization/advertising/etc.

Some Other Useful Formatting Tips
Placing an asterisk (*) at the beggining of a line will produce a bullet point. Placing a colon at the beginning of a line will indent (actually, like half of an indent), two colons will indent further and so on. Headers can be placed by two equal signs (==) on each side (==) when at the beginning of a line (although one equal sign on each side is a differently styled header, and three equals, and so on until seven, which is annoyingly tiny). A number sign (#) at the beginning of a line will insert numbers and a indent, with numbers following underneath.

Text of indented paragraph goes here

Second paragraph is indented. produces: Text of indented paragraph goes here.

Second paragraph is indented.

Text of poem goes here. produces: Each line appears directly below, the following line, as a poem should appear.

Stanzas look like this, Just like they should.

Developer's Wiki
Here's the link to the developer's wiki. There's a great bunch of codes there that you can add to your w:Special:Mypage/global.js, it's actually really simple, there's instructions on each page. The best ones I know of are AjaxDiff, BotoneraPopups, PowerPageMaker, WHAM, and StandardEditSummary.

I'll add on to this as I think of stuff. I'm sure there's a lot more, but I'm drawing a blank right now.