User blog:MeTieDoughtyWalker/MeTieDoughtyWalker: Upload Tutorial 03

Part 03: Creating links and Adding Categories

  Creating Links

 I will be teaching you how to create links in visual mode which is the default editing mode.

 1: Find your story's place in the article listing, click on the title that goes above your story and hit enter once. It will automatically create a new line with a white square. Now go to your editing tool bare and find a icon that looks like a small link of chain. When you click on it a box will pop up. This is where you will enter your link information. The top most input box is marked “Target page or URL”. This is, as the text suggests, where you put the information that tells the link what page it is linking to. For links that go to pages on the Creepypasta Wiki you only need to type in the page name. For links that go to pages outside the wiki you put in the page's URL. Since you are creating a link to a page on the wiki you can just type in the page name. You don't have to do anything special just type it in the way it appears at the top of your story's page.



 3: The Next box says “Text to display”. The text in this box is what the finished link will say. By default the link will display the pages name or URL but you can tell a link to display different text. If your story's title starts with “a” “an” or “the” like the “The Nightmare” and you need the title to be displayed as “Nightmare, The” To change what it says simply delete the existing text and type in what you want the link to say.



 4: Finally at the bottom of the box there are two options “To a wiki page” and “To a external link”.[SCI] What you choose will tell the site weather the link is internal or external. The link you're creating goes to a page on the wiki, it's an internal link so choose “To a wiki page” and hit enter. If the link is working it will be gray just like the others on the page if it is broken it will be red. If the link is broken right click on it and select “Edit Link” then make sure you typed in the page's name correctly. Compare the page name to the name you typed in to make sure they are the same.



 There, you added your story to the article listing. Now all you need to do now is add your story to at least one category.



 Adding Categories

 There are many categories on the wiki, over forty in fact. For a list of all the categories on the wiki and descriptions of what kind of story you should put in them click on Site Rules on the bar at the top of the page and look under “Genre Listing and Categories”.



 1: To add a category go back to your story's page on the wiki and go into edit mode. Over on the right, under Features and Media is a box that say “Categories”. Under the box's title is a input box that says “Add a category” To add a category type its name into the box. The category you typed in should appear on a list bellow the input box. If it does, simply hit enter and you're done. If it does not you have most likely typed the name incorrectly and will need to re-type it. You have to be careful when adding categories because if you type in the category's name wrong you could accidentally create a new category. Users are not allowed to create new categories on the creepypasta wiki although they can suggest their creation to the admins. If you accidentally create a new category don't panic. As long as you haven't published it yet every thing is fine. Just change it to a existing category or delete it. If you have published the edit with the new category you should still change it as soon as possible but it may have been reported and you may receive a one day block.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> 2: If you want to get rid of or change a category you added hover over it with the cursor and two options will appear. Edit, which looks like a pencil, and Delete, which looks like a metal trash can.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> Category Rules

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> This is a brief overview of rules for certain categories you should know about before trying to add them to your story.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> 1: If you want to put your story in the Ghosts, Monsters, Demon/Devil, Beings or Cryptids categories

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> you most choose only one of them. It can't be in Monsters and in Ghosts. Same thing with Troll Pasta and Horrible Troll Pasta. You can only choose one.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> 2: Anything in the Holders category must be from the original Holders Series. You can't make your own.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> 3: The OC (Original Creation) category is only for stories you wrote yourself. Details on adding stories to this category can be found in the Original Creations and User Submissions section of this tutorial.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> 4: The Videos category is for pages that have videos on them not for pastas that are about videos. Pastas about videos should be put under television.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> 5: It is against the site rules to remove your story from the Marked for Review or Marked for Delete categories. You can add other people's stories to Marked for Review if they have grammar mistakes or other errors that need to be corrected but only admins are supposed to add stories to the Marked for Delete category.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"> That's it. Provided I explained everything clearly you now know how to add stories to the article listing. It's not really so hard once you know what to do. If you're worried about running out of time while trying to find your story's place in the article listing go to the article listing page before you upload it and find where it should go. It might be a good idea to write down the information in case you forget it. If you wrote the story you are uploading you will need to read the next section on OC and User Submissions.