Editor Tools
To Do List
Recurrent/Ongoing:
- Add plain character redirect pages (Magnus) for people with special characters in their names (Magnús) for ease of searching (see below)
- Check "Recent Changes" for vandalism (link in left sidebar)
- Make new pages for people mentioned in court reports
- Update footer boilerplates with the dynamic template code {{FooterBoilerPlate}}
- Polish up pages with damaged formatting
- Upload devices from the Kingdom Armorial
- Tag people with the relevant categories (Groups, Activities, Service, other affiliations, Awards)
- Tag images with the relevant categories (Amory, Graphics, Photos, Projects, Scrolls)
Creating Redirects
It sometimes happens that a name has special characters which are hard to type and which the wiki doesn't index with the plain characters as usually expected.
In such cases, a page with the plain name can be created for indexing/search purposes with the following command to automatically redirect to the "real" page with the special characters:
#redirect [[pagename]] source
Creating New Accounts
New users can be created by sysops ("bureaucrats"), in the following manner:
- Go to Special:Userlogin, when logged in as a sysop.
- Click on "Create an account" link to get to the account creation form.
- Enter the username and the new user's email address, and click the "by email" button.
- The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address (as with the "forgot password" feature). The user will be requested to change password at first login; when this is done, the e-mail address will be marked as confirmed.
- When you click the "create account" button instead, you have to manually send the user his password. If you've set $wgMinimalPasswordLength=0 (default configuration up to version 1.15) and you've left the password field blank, the user will be emailed an e-mail address confirmation request but will be unable to access Special:Confirmemail to perform the confirmation. Instead, the user will get an error (unless you've added it to $wgWhitelistRead); the user will be able to login with a blank password and then confirm email, but their password will not have been reset (it will have to be reset manually).
Fixing Old Accounts
- Log into hosting account
- Active Products/Services
- Log in to cPanel
- phpMyAdmin
- Databases
- mathurin_mw19473
- mwwr_user
- user_password or user_newpassword = [BLOB - 137B]
- So how to see the blob...? and fix it?
Templates:
- People - Template:People
- Events - Template:Events
- Lilies - Template:Lilies
- Groups - Template:Groups
- Activities - Template:Activities
- Cultures - Template:Cultures
- Awards - Template:Awards
- Reigns - Template:Reigns
- Menus and Recipes - Template:Menus
- Elevation Planning Template:Elevation Planning
To use a template:
- Open a new page 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}}, or other Template name as appropriate.
- Save the page without any other coding
- This will substitute in the Template text.
- Re-open the article for editing to personalize it and fill in the blanks.
Dynamic Template:
There is a special type of dynamic template used for boilerplates that will automatically update across all the created pages with that command typed in, when the boilerplate is updated. Aka "template call". Aka transclusion.
- So far the Template:FooterBoilerPlate is the only such template
- Code to include on a page is {{FooterBoilerPlate}}
- This code is on the above templates already, so only needs to be added if a Template isn't being used to create a new page. Or if an old page is being updated to get rid of the old boilerplate.
Categories/Subcategories:
- Categories and subcategories are used in MediaWiki to organize pages together much like tags were used on wikispaces.
- Categories are case-sensitive.
Major categories are:
People - citizens and friends of Calontir. Subcategories for:
- group membership (Vatavians or Coeur d'Ennui),
- persona (Balkan, Breton, Italian, Russian...),
- service (Waterbearers), etc.
Groups - branches, guilds, colleges, and households of Calontir. Subcategories include:
- Branches - 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.
- Households - unofficial, loosely defined groups of people based on a common interest, noble family, etc.
Activities/Interests
- Cultures (Balkan Culture, Breton Culture, Italian Culture...)
- Arts and Sciences (Archery Equipment, Armor, Beverages... simplified from the Kingdom Judging Categories)
- Martial (Archery, Armored Combat, Cut and Thrust, Equestrian, Seige Weapons)
- Service (Archery Marshals, Armored Combat Marshals, Arts and Sciences Ministers)
Events - official events in Calontir. Also can/should be cross-categorized:
- Branch hosting (eg. Vatavia) and/or
- History (for major kingdom events like coronations)
Resources - kingdom information. Subcategories:
- Awards and Orders
- History
- Royal Lineage
- Songs
- Stories
Some subcategories fall under more than one category/subcategory. For example, Scribal Arts is a subcategory of Service, but also a subcategory of Arts and Sciences.
Categories are assigned by:
- If using VisualEditor ("Edit" button), the Category tool is found with the triple - icon on the right side between the ? icon and the pencil icon.
- If using the text editor ("Edit Source" button), 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:Heraldshill, Category:Russian Culture, Category:Heralds, etc.
The same code is use to create category trees.
- So the page Category:Vatavians 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 .
Commonly Used Images
Note that uploading images is restricted to logged-in "members" of the wiki. Contact sofyalarus @ calontiri dot info, or FB Lisa Sofya Kies.
This is not an official document of the Kingdom of Calontir or the Society of Creative Anachronism. Please note that all contributions to Calontiri Wiki may be altered by other contributors. Do not submit copyrighted work here without permission! Contact the editor-in-chief, sofyalarus@calontiri.info, for any concerns.