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Migration Procedure

Find old unmoved page on calontiri wikispace

• Right-click on any images and save to a folder on your computer to be uploaded to the new wiki later.

Find new migrated page on calontiri.info (if old page didn't migrate, see below)

• Fix formatting problems. Bullet lists (*), and italics () often didn't convert properly.
• Upload the images (recommend having a second tab open with the upload page).
  • Cut and Paste the simple image file names (Image.gif, etc. ) into the appropriate areas on the new page
  • Label images as appropriate
• Add categories to the bottom of the new page - Category:People, Category:Vatavian, Category:Scribe, etc.
• Save the new page.

Click on any new categories you just created and make sure their parent categories are correct.

Go back to old wikispace page

• Change tag from "people" to "people moved", etc.
• Add note at top of old page, "This page has been moved to ..."

If old page didn't migrate to the new wiki:

• Open the old page for editing.
• Convert view to Wikitext Editor using the menu down arrow on the right side of the edit bar
• Copy the encoding.

Create the new page on calontiri.info

• Put the new page name in the search bar, then click on the name in the search results.
• Paste the encoding from the old page into the edit box.
• Correct the formatting problems as above.
• Deal with images as above.

Templates:

• People - Template:People
• Events - Template:Events

To use a template, open an page article like you normally would. (Search for "Jane Doe" and click on the name in the "Create the page "Jane Doe" on this wiki!" link.) In the edit box, put the code "subst:People" using double-curley brackets {{ on one side, and double close-curley brackets on the other side. Save the page without any other coding, which will substitute in the Template. Re-open the article for editing to personalize it and fill in the blanks.

Categories/Subcategories:

Categories and subcategories are used in MediaWiki to organize pages together much like tags were used on wikispaces.

The major categories are:

• People - citizens and friends of Calontir. Subcategories for:
  • group membership (Vatavian),
  • personas (Russian),
  • service (Waterbearer), etc.
• Groups - branches, guilds, colleges, and households of Calontir. Subcategories:
  • Branch - official groups of the SCA, subcategories Vatavia, Coeur d'Ennui, etc.
  • Guilds - official guilds and colleges of Calontir, subcategories - Scribe's Guild, Brewer's Guild, etc.
  • Household - unofficial, loosely defined groups of people based on a common interest, noble family, etc.
• Events - official events in Calontir

Some subcategories fall under more than one category/subcategory. For example, Vatavian is a subcategory of People, but also a subcategory of Vatavia.

MediaWiki automatically makes a page for any category assigned to an article.

Categories are assigned by putting the relevant code at the bottom of the page. Double-square brackets [[ around the Category:Name command, then closed-double-square brackets. Many pages will belong to multiple categories, and each category needs it's own bracketed command.

For example, Sofya la Rus is Category:Hillian (Heraldshill), Category:Russian, Category:Herald, etc.

The same code is use to create category trees. So the page Category:Vatavian would have the code for Category:Vatavia at the bottom (along with the code for Category:People). Then the Category:Vatavia, would have the code for its parent, Category:Branches. In turn, Category:Branches would have the code for its parent, Category:Groups .